Just bought a very cheap horizontal offset from Home Depot. $99 on sale! So not a good one at all but at least now I can give smoking a try and see if I want to do this. Fired it up for first time 4th of July for some ribs. They had great flavor but took forever so I finished in oven. Struggled with getting tem0 over 200 but now I see that's not at all unusual with what I bought and no mods. Trying again today with just working on temp and no meat on the grill. Did the soup can trick with the pipe the smoke exits from and raised the grate in the firebox for better airflow and room for the ash to fall below. Instantly got 50 degrees more than all day on the 4th. Now I feel I can risk the two bone in chicken breasts I thawed and marinated for dinner tonight! LOL