ok y'all... Wanting to get everybody's opinion on the "redneck portable smokehouse" (starting to lose sleep thinking about it).. what does everybody think about using the insulation board, foiled both sides ? 1/2 or 3/4 ?... all silver metal taped together ?....
OR
Should I just go ahead and build one out of plywood ? I have a stack of 3/8" plywood all precut for hurricane shutters for the house.... I could sacrifice a few pieces and build if before hand and do a test run in it... a few screws to put it together and take it apart... I can carry the plywood from the house in the bottom of the bed on the truck and still be able to stack other stuff on top of it... with the insulation board I wouldn't be able to stack much on it for crushing purposes...
with plywood I was going with 4x3x6 ?
Insulation board will be 3x3x6
I have been playing around with my pipe burner (haven't went BOOM yet).. LOL .. starting to get it dialed in... re purposed the controls and a lower pressure regulator from an old gas grill (would rather find a single burner unit tho)... worked better than the high pressure rig from a
turkey fryer... just need to hunt up the proper fittings to connect it to the end cap on the pipe better.... Did y'all know that orifices in gas grills are changeable just like jets in a carburetor .... think there is a need for a heat sync/defuser over top of the burner... I can make that real quick at work... need to make a holder for the pipe still so I will also make the sync/defuser as well... think 3-4 inches above flame would be ok ?.... 1/4" plate, what 8"x24" ?
Joe... didn't you say you had a portable burner ? (just in case)... I'll have 3 bottles of propane so we should be good on that...
OK... thoughts and comments....
time is getting short ... so lets "get-er-done"