SC - small chickens

[Kay Loidolt]

I have the design, but I'll need to work out some of the details in steel,
before they'll really be ready to give folks. The design will be radical in
a couple of respects, because rather than using a stove pipe, I'll be using
a vent system, cut out of the steel, and it will take a bit of playing to
get the right draft.

Roughly, it'll look something like this:

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|       A                latch               B         |
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                    front view

Side A will hold the coals (planning on it being next to out Pennsic fire
pit) and sibe be will hold the baking foods- I intend to install some racks,
for more room. Above A, you'll have a flat surface for cooking with pots and
pans, and over side B you can keep stuff like coffee or water warm. The only
weakness will be that you might have to rotate the food in the oven
occasionally to assure an even heat, but the thickness of the metal should
keep things fairly even, particularly at Pennsic in the summur. It will
collapse down into a volume of about 2' by 3' by two inches- figuring total
weight about 150 lbs, but each piece will weigh no more than 40.

Wanna do it (hey guys, you saw how my grill and tree worked- we'll have
better ones this year, now the bugs are worked out) , but can't afford all
the metal myself. I already have the metal for two more Cavalry grills (the
one I gave you, Ras) and two more trees, but the steel plate's a bit beyond
me at the moment. If someone Comes up with a cauldron, we'll have a tripod
as well, but I'll need the size of the cauldron to figure the size of the
tripod, as well as the chain I'll be forging for it. Those cheap modern
commercial chains they had with the tripods they were selling at Pennsoc
SUCKED!!!

Incidently, Elysant, I've already drilled the stainless steel bowls you got
me, to use over the fire. If anyone could come up with one of those big,
heavy sided pressure canners, where the seal has gone defunct, we'll have a
substitute cauldron for our Perpetual Soup Pot....


Phlip

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phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus

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Scotland, the men.
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