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    paint or season

    I ended up painting the whole thing with Rustoleum brush on high heat paint (1200*)
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    Octagon SFB - 1st Smoker build - First Fab project

    Well it’s pretty much all buttoned up. Only thing left is to replace the thermometer. The stem broke off as I was tightening the wing nut! Now we just need to fire it up, season, and smoke!
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    5000 Liter animal recycler

    Damn! This will be fun to watch!!:eek:
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    paint or season

    So I'm buttoning up the last of the details on my first smoker build and thinking about the finish. I've read a handful of threads about which paint people have used, whats easy to touch up, etc. I think I also read about people not even painting their firebox because it gets so hot most...
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    Octagon SFB - 1st Smoker build - First Fab project

    I leveled out the front shelf, added expanded steel for the shelf, fabbed up a cooking grate w angle and expanded steel, and fabbed up some spring handles. Closing in on it
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    Octagon SFB - 1st Smoker build - First Fab project

    Haha! Yes, thank you! I didn’t even tack it in place. Got the smokestack burned in and starting making the frame for the cooking grate this afternoon. Edit: I promise you all, it looks almost as crooked in real life as it does in that pic:D
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    Octagon SFB - 1st Smoker build - First Fab project

    Do you all think the deflector plate is good as it is? Should I have it drop a bit lower? Right now it’s about 5” from the bottom of the cook chamber.
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    Octagon SFB - 1st Smoker build - First Fab project

    Cut out and tacked the smoke stack together. Should put me about 20" higher than the top of the smoker in the end. I haven't cut the exhaust yet, so I'm just holding it to get a quick photo, hopefully you get the idea. Kind of learning as I go, hope it turns out well for my BIL!!
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    Octagon SFB - 1st Smoker build - First Fab project

    Ok so I got the side door cut and hung and tacked in the trim for the side and top door on the fire box. I cut out a piece for the deflector plate. How’s this look? The deflector plate sits at the top of the throat and finished about 5” from the bottom of the cook chamber. Do I need...
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    Octagon SFB - 1st Smoker build - First Fab project

    Thank you for the advice!! This will be a standard smoker. Not a reverse flow. The defector plate would just be a piece of plate to direct the heat downward? A baffle plate would run most of the length of the cook chamber and allow heat to rise through increasingly sized holes. Do I have this...
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