Recent content by Dan's EB

Nice. I like it.

I'm not sure but I think it's closer that that. I'll get a pic next time I fire it up. I have thermometers at 3 different spots. The probe for the pellet feeder is just below the top grill.

Good idea, I like keeping it simple. A few guys I work with have Traeger pellet feed smokers and are always raving about how great they are. I looked at one at a store and didn't like how thin the metal was or how they were constructed, they looked mass produced. But I did like the pellet...

Maybe so. I think this thing is really effecient since it's vertical. It takes about 15 charcoal briquets to get it to 250 degrees. An hour later it's starting to cool down so I add 8 more and it spikes to 325 or so then starts ramping down until add add more charcoal. It takes constant...

Wow, nice work.

I got the smoker all painted up and ready to cook something. The interior was sandblasted clean bare metal so I wiped it down with liberal coat of olive oil and started a fire to season it a bit. I have smoked a bunch of different meats in this thing over tha past year or so and found that I'm...

Like I mentioned in my first post I'm bad at taking pictures as I'm building. The next step was to make 3 grill grates/shelves. I took the 1/4"x18" circle I purchased and bent 1/2" solid rod around it's circumference to make a hoop then used grating on top to make the grills. This pic I took...

So this is a build thread for the smoker I built. Unfortunately I forget to take pictures while I building so there aren't too many. I scored a 60 gallon compressor at a garage sale that had a bad pump. At first I was planning on repairing it but after it sat on my back porch for 6 months I...

Thanks guys. I'm new here, what's shoptech?

My very first post here. I ran across a post about a garage bunker build on this site and have been lurking every since so I thought I would join up. I do a bit of welding and general metalwoorking as a hobby as well as garage stuff. I have an old Bronco that I've been building/wheeling for...