I have ordered a ceramic blanket, it should arrive Tuesday. I will see if I can tuck it under the bracket between the bracket and the fire brick and then up and around the top.

I reconnected the couplers on the float box, there was one gasket obviously out of place. Hopefully both now with be sap tight.

My plastic head tank stores fluid in the legs and I was a little worried about it all coming out, but I did some rednecking snd it work great, it drained all of the water out.

I think my boil rate was 11 gal per hour, maybe a hair better.

I really liked how little smoke the whole setup had. Almost none, big difference from last year.

I mentioned before I liked how it boiled hard the whole length of the channels, last year with my five steam pans, it was hard to get the last two pans to boil.