The wire oven racks that we got from the junkyard were of all different sizes. All were either too wide, too deep, too shallow, or too narrow. I could have ordered the proper size from Cookshack, but they were too expensive, I think about $25 or so each.
So we had to cut the junk racks apart and weld them back together. The picture here shows my son cutting the end off. We cut all three bars, one on each side and the middle one, and then cut the right amount to shorten it out of the middle. We used a cut-off wheel on a cheap angle grinder to make the cut. We made sure to mark all three bars the same.
After shortening the rack, we welded the end back on, using the thick bars from the cut off middle. We'd grind down the rack wires and use the bars to reinforce the joints. Here is one all welded back together. This particular rack was the correct width to fit in the side rack, so we only had to modify the length.
On some of the racks, we had to increase the width. This one had quite a lot of extra stuff on it, and all we need for the smoker is a flat rack, so we used the parts that were cut off to extend the width. It's not too pretty, but quite functional. If you're interested in making some, send an email to hostmasterATpikespeakbbq, and I'll get back to you. (Please replace "AT" with an at-sign. That's to keep the email address off spam lists. Thanks!)
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