Round two, Metal Recycle, The Smoker

[homealone]

After the fine reviews regarding my pub table, I thought I'd share another recent project. It's a little slow here at work today too.

Minus the wheels, the smoker is 100% recycled, re-purposed, used or scrap materials. Enjoy.

Bill Of Materials

Water heater tank. Found it in the New Mexico desert years ago and previously used it as an air tank.

Scrap tubing, angle iron, flat strap, expanded metal and sheet metal from my friendly neighborhood metal recycler in Fort Worth.

Header collector flange left over from my ball and socket conversion on my Grandpa's truck.

4.6 connecting rods. Never found half of the 8th one I chucked out the side of the block running at Kennedale. Whoops.

Valve springs complements of Cool Cats 68 Cougar.

Fence posts from my old dog pen.

And a few odd and ends, bolts, push rods, etc, I had laying around the garage.




Majority of the materials I started with.



36" Smoke chamber, 12" fire box. Next time I'll increase the sizes.



Few welds.



Welding the cap back on the smoke chamber



Fence post legs and fire box mock-up.



Hinges made from push rods, all-thread and nuts.

[homealone]

Food rack, don't forget your PPE.






Firewood rack, chimney and Chimney damper.





Fire box door and damper.





Handle, 4.6 rods, valve springs and pushrods.



Blasted.



A little paint.

[homealone]

First Fire!

[Diabolic]

Kick Ass! Good job!

[Lason]

That is badass! Love to see homebuilt projects like this and getting away with using that much scrap is a bonus!

[Rafa]

badass job man

[homealone]

A guy here at work just laughed and said, "you screwed up" because the chimney is on the same side as the firebox. So I made him this drawing. It's a reverse flow. I welded a plate across the bottom. Smoke and heat travel all the way across the bottom, up and all the way across the top crossing the meat and then out the chimney. It should help the smoker keep a more constant and even heat.

[D. Lil]

That is sick man! Props!

[Hunter]

Badass!

[Darren M]

I lol'd at the faux-flames.

[2165 Turbo Rail]

cool

[homealone]

I lol'd at the faux-flames.

MS Paint FTW! I had to explain it to a former Union employee so big, pretty pictures helped.

[Rafa]

The rods were an awesome idea.

[ceyko]

A guy here at work just laughed and said, "you screwed up" because the chimney is on the same side as the firebox. So I made him this drawing. It's a reverse flow. I welded a plate across the bottom. Smoke and heat travel all the way across the bottom, up and all the way across the top crossing the meat and then out the chimney. It should help the smoker keep a more constant and even heat.

I was going to say the same thing, only thing I'd be concerned about with your design is air flow/oxygen for the fire without a nice breeze.

Still nice work, it looks good.

[homealone]

I was going to say the same thing, only thing I'd be concerned about with your design is air flow/oxygen for the fire without a nice breeze.

Still nice work, it looks good.

It actually draws very nice. I used an online calculator to size everything and then over sized the damper so I could have a little control. Once its warmed up, I can shut the damper half way and it keeps a nice constant temp.