Smoker Maintenance

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Mar 25, 2013
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Lakeland, FL
Hey all,  I just picked up my first stick smoker.  It looks like I got a steal on a one year old Horizon 20 RD Marshall smoker for 6 bills, however I do have a maintenance question that I could not seem to find.


So there is a little bit of surface rust that I figure I can knock off with a wire wheel and some paint.  The cook box rack is a bit rusty, again I figure some time with a wire wheel and re-season should be ok.   The one thing that I am not sure on is some interior rust.


Now I live in Florida so we get our fair share of humidity and rain.  It seems to be mostly surface rust just in this area of the cooker under the tuning plate when closed.  I am wondering if it may not have been seasoned well??
 
I would just wire wheel it, and rub it down with some flax seed oil and re-season it and you should be good to go. Usually once you get to using it often it builds up a nice seasoned layer that protects it from rusting.
 
yep no sweat...wire it down spray on some veg oil and start a fire...use it enough and it will build up a film inside...Biggest thing is never leave ashes in your firebox for very long...I clean mine out as soon as the embers are dead.  The ashes are acidic and will draw moisture.
 
Uh, I think wood ash is alkaline. And when mixed with water becomes lye, very corrosive to iron.

Either way, rust is evil when it comes to our smokers
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