04-12-2018, 10:13 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-12-2018, 11:09 AM by Ritchie Wilson.)
(04-12-2018, 09:19 AM)Graham O Wrote: Going a bit off subject, but re the smoker's hatch - mine is gone also. I keep looking at the framing where it should be and have muttered about trying to make one. All listeners to that have looked at me sideways and tapped the side of their head knowingly. Am I mad to try? I've only seen a few photos of them and they do seem to be a bid fiddly to make. Maybe I should start a new discussion on this..Hi Graham
Graham
There were posts on the old forum giving the dimensions of the smoker's hatch.
A well-known A7 person in Nelson New Zealand made one and showed me how he did it.
He made a die for the outer glass frame and used a large commercial press to press it from steel plate. The rest of the assembly (rods, springs, glass, pull etc) didn't seem too difficult. The fixed frame was fabricated from angle.
There are modern versions used for caravans but the ones I have seen online look rather different.