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    FREE tanks & cabinets-for smoker builds

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    We just drained these vintage1960's Westinghouse circuit breakers, and are going to give away to a scrap dealer.  If any of you guys are wanting to fabricate a "BIG" offset or cabinet smoker...you can have them free,  The main tanks are 8' tall x 52" diameter. And the cabinets are 4' wide x 7' tall x 2' deep.  You could cook a lot of meat in one of these!

    One complete breaker weighs 12,000# empty.  We removed all the oil already.  Located just outside Hays Kansas.  I already took a couple of the air tanks off to make firepits.  I cut them with my plasma, and they were 5/16' thick.  They built these like army tanks back in the day!

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      Thanks @littlerascal56 , that's good of you to offer.  Wish i could take one of those cabinets, but I'm too far.

      Phoenix 
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      Didn’t these contain oil with PCBs in it?
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      Crazycanuck6 said:
      Didn’t these contain oil with PCBs in it?
      It adds to the flavor profile
      What I do when I'm black out drunk is none of my business...

      John Central CT
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      The old GE breakers used PCB oils.  Westinghouse didn’t.  I had the oil tested  before we sold that oil.  There was 1600 gallons in each breaker, or 530 gallons per tank!
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      @SciAggie

      You did just finish the rock....
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      Very neat! I'm interested in knowing what you replaced them with? 
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      Legume said:
      @SciAggie

      You did just finish the rock....
      My wife would give me a look...
      Coleman, Texas
      Large BGE & Mini Max for the wok. A few old camp Dutch ovens and a wood fired oven. LSG 24” cabinet offset smoker. There are a few paella pans and a Patagonia cross in the barn. A curing chamber for bacterial transformation of meats...
      "Bourbon slushies. Sure you can cook on the BGE without them, but why would you?"
                                                                                                                            YukonRon
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      Do you ship via UPS?
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      XL 6/06, Mini 6/12, L 10/12, Mini #2 12/14 MiniMax 3/16 Large #2 11/20 Legacy from my FIL - RIP PitBoss Navigator 850G 11/25
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      tarheelmatt said:
      Very neat! I'm interested in knowing what you replaced them with? 


      I have been replacing these old oil breakers with SF6 gas breakers since 1981. Gets rid of oil spill plan regulations, but created another EPA nightmare. SF6 is a "greenhouse" gas, just like Freon.  The electic industry is the largest user of SF6 gas (Nike used to put it in their AIR tennis shoes), so we are heavily regulated on monitoring the gas in these breakers. 

      The cool part of these new breakers is they only weigh about 6000#, vs those oil breakers that weighed 24,500.  And these require almost zero maintenance over a 60 year lifespan.

      Oil breakers are dinosaurs, but there are still thousands in use throughout the US and abroad.  If you keep them maintained, they still work fine.  But they would be cool smokers if you re-purposed the steel!

      (Ignore the Techs under the white tent...cooking burgers on a pellet grill..LOL).

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      That would make for some big smokers. I wouldn't even have anything to move it.
      What is the voltage through those and how much amperage to trip it? 
      Aledo, Texas
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      Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

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      12K# empty sounds about right.  
      LBGE 2013 & MM 2014
      Die Hard HUSKER & BRONCO FAN
      Flying Low & Slow in "Da Burg" FL
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      edited April 2018
      How many bodies could you fit in one?  Asking for a friend.

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      Wow. I knew a guy that made a smoker out of an explosion proof electrical enclosure the size of a small phone booth. I though that was big. You could smoke whole hogs in those breaker cabinets.
      Michiana, South of the border.
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      If I was closer I would take several of the cabinets, not for smokers though.  We can always use heavy cabinets like that.  Would make for a great electrical cabinet for a grain elevator control panel and phase converter.
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