A question about protecting my wood

[PastNastification]

Building a two tier woody....giggady.

I built it a little too small around the burner and keggle area. With it all in place there is a 2" space between the side of the frame and the edge of the keggle skirt. the keg sits about 3/4" above the level of the frame.

I did a water boil and the wood became way too hot way too quickly so I added some metal sheeting. I'm not sure what gauge or thickness it is...maybe 1/32". Whatever it is, it is what semi trailer walls are made from...not exactly flimsy but not really stout either.

So I nailed it to the frame and retried a boil. Within 15 minutes the metal was too hot to touch. I did not continue.

My question is whether or not it will protect the wood or should I lift my burner a bit to allow a little more room. I would rather not have to do any major modification.

[Quin]

For it to protect the wood, there needs to be an air gap between the metal and wood. Say about an 1".

[spiderwrangler]

Feel free to post a picture or two of what you're working with, but yes if there is direct contact between your shield and your wood, it will heat up.

[PastNastification]

Thanks for the replies.

I kinda figured there would need to be an air gap. I miscalculated and ended up building kinda small so the most I could really swing would be a half inch all around. It would be a lot of work to remove the metals as it is...I was a bit overzealous with the hammer.


I just used a couple pieces of wood to lift the burner an inch and a half. Tried out another boil and it seemed fine.
Brewed a beer this weekend and nothing burst into flames so I'm going to incorporate the change into the stand.

In regards to posting a pic, I need to to link to a pic at an off site host? Like flickr or something like that?.

[spiderwrangler]

Yeah, once you upload it somewhere, you likely will be able to right click and copy image url.