A friend and I are building an prototype oven for a project not remotely related to powdercoating, but believe it or not this forum has been hugely helpful.

His father made a great little niche for himself in the banquet business in the Houston area by oven roasting whole pigs, deer, goat, small steers etc. and then rolling them out and carving the meat right off to the plates. Basically, its the same set up, size, and use of trolley carts that y’all use here, only all stainless.

Jay’s father unfortunately lost all of his oven equipment when Ike tore across the Galveston area. Jay and I got the idea we’ll build him a set of new ones and save him the time and effort of doing it himself since a commercially bought one is obscenely expensive.

We’ve run into a snag. The rivets we used to join the studs to the outside are getting really hot. Too hot to touch. We know this wasn’t a problem in the ones he built for himself, so we need to fix this.

Does anyone have ideas on what we might have missed or could do that will prevent the studs from carrying the heat to the rivets to the outside? I’d tear my home oven apart to see how that suspends the oven inside the shell, but I’m afraid my girlfriend would go Loreena Bobbit if I so much as scratch it.