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    Propane Smoker / Needle Valve Issue

    Success! Thanks for the tips.  Apparently my patience and time wore thin yesterday when trying things out.  So, for anyone else who ends up with the King Kooker needle valve, here's what I discovered (and thanks for the tips about starting very low on the needle valve): I can get what visually...
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    Propane Smoker / Needle Valve Issue

    Thanks, I'll give that a shot when I get home tonight.  That's also what I heard from some buddies I work with.  I figure I'm missing something simple like flooding the line with gas "tricking" the regulator into thinking its venting to atmosphere and kicking off based on high flow.  
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    Propane Smoker / Needle Valve Issue

    Ok, I figured I'd reach out to the forum community for some help. For starters, I'm using a Master Forge 2-door propane smoker, Lowe's cheapo model.  I noticed on my last smoke that I was having to throttle the gas using the manufacturers burner control.  But the knob on the front and the...
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    New in KY

    Greetings all.  I'm Jeremy, live in eastern KY these days though my job took me out of the midwest years ago and moved me up and down the East Coast for a while. New to the forums, though I've been lurking for quite some time. I'm by no means a pro, but I've been tinkering with smoking and...
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