@@darienlatham I would imagine you would be fine, however, I’m assuming it wasn’t a fresh raw tank that had the valves in it before you started

@SmokerBuilder it did still have the valves in it when i got it. It's been sitting since October without valves in it.

@@darienlatham ok, when in doubt, flush it out. It wont hold water which is ok assuming your plasma cutter has a pilot arc like the video here. Pull trigger and then plunge. If still sticks use large sledge to break loose.

@@christopherhernandez4611 awesome! You’ll love it!

@@brokenbravo83 totally plausible. However, I don’t have enough information to tell you if what you see in your mind will work the best. You’re correct you want to be able to get rid of as much heat as possible and just retain the smoke. One way to do this would be to build a smaller fire, but then you wouldn’t get enough airflow through the pit possibly I recommend that you post pictures of your smoker in our private website smokerbuilderu.com and I’m sure we can help you fine-tune your design in there

@@PatrickBishop-p4y it would really help to have pictures of this. If you could join our site@ smokerbuilderu.com You’ll be able to post pictures and explain a little more detail. However, my assumption is you’re talking about 1000 gallon offset smoker 4 foot of a 250 gallon propane tank is about half the size the fire box should be. I know a lot of guys are doing it that way, but I get a lot of complaints from the customers that purchased those pits with exactly the scenario you’re describing The bottom line is this is all about a high volume of gentle airflow in order to even out temperatures inside the smoker Your smokestack size doesn’t sound too bad to me, but your fire box should be bigger I would also hazard to guess that the opening between your firebox and chamber is very small as well. This is referred to as the throat opening. They’re simply not enough surface area open between a 30 inch diameter fire box and a 41 inch diameter cook chamber to get a big enough throat opening. So they are almost all too small. The backdraft you see come out of your fire box is because the fire is trying to draw a lot of air into it, but it can’t all go through that opening into your cook chamber When the throat opening is too small, you wind up with less volume of air at a higher velocity, going into the cooking chamber The Backdraft is actually air that can’t go through that hole spilling out of the firebox door or air inlet Insulating your fire box would not help the situation

@@PatrickBishop-p4y think of it like a traffic jam where four lanes of traffic are being forced to combine down into one lane of traffic. This is what happens at the throat opening

@SmokerBuilder so in this situation is this fixable? Can the old firebox be cut off?And the half of five hundred gallon b welded back on, there is a vertical baffle at the throat as well. Save Pour in the first 4 hours of a cook. Maybe 5 hours. Everything is even everything runs beautiful. And then, after a while, temperatures start fluctuating, and different things start happening. I cannot do a long cook.It gets too much smoke on the meat

@@SmokerBuilder will the warmer weather help it run better or just to small a firebox period

@@SmokerBuilder i joined the sight and will upload pics soon

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You need air in the tanks if the tank heats up the gas vapor will expand and your gas tank will start releasing vapor through the pressure relief valve . Here in sfl 80% is the max gas level after that the 20% is space needed for gas expansion

@@peewee3889 Don't think you know what your talking about..80% full is the liquid level, 20% is for vapor (gas) which is what you burn.. Not AIR. You cannot have air in the tank.

@@machaf my bad you’re right vapor not air since air will have moisture and debris and will rust out the tank way easier kinda new to the lp tanks just trying to get my cat v qualifier thanks for pointing out that error man

@@jeremybrown3239 thanks Jeremy! Glad we can help! We are always looking for more topics like this and would love to hear your feedback on videos we could do in the future!