The Wild Pig Smoker

Step 11 Damper

Now is the time to build your damper between the horizontal and vertical tank. In this picture you can see I used the cutout piece to make an adjustable damper. This damper should be cut into the side of the vertical tank from your marks outlined in the previous steps.

Cut and weld some 1 1/2 flat stock perpendicular to the tank as pictured here. These pieces will need to be tacked on about mid way down the opening on each side. DON'T weld them on just a little tack weld as you will have to fiddle (southern term) with them a bit to make sure you get the whole tings to swing freely. You will need to cut or drill holes in these to be able to run a piece of round pipe or rod through i them from side to side. These holes will need to allow this pipe/rod to just touch the front center of the damper plate/door. Just tack the damper in the center to the rod at this point.

Now that you have this mocked up you will need to test to make sure things swing/open/close properly. Once the vertical tank is connected permanently to the horizontal this rod will need to be placed through the outside of the horizontal tank and back into the prefabbed flat plates and then welded to the damper plate. This is why to this point we have only tacked stuff together.