GOSM - accessories and extra vent questions

...and stop by Roll Call, to tell us a little about your set up.
There are some mods to GOSMs in the propane section. I'm sure someone can help you with a linkl. I have a larger GOSM but like you no bottom vents.There is a web site that sells the round weber" style that I have seen people attach. I placed a needle valce inline to lower my temps, but I think the vent idea would help also. During high winds I get a little nervous about the flame going out.
Good luck yo you.
And welcome.

Try this!
With pics scroll around. He uses a ball valve. I did this earlier then found the needle valve has better control, for me. They both will work.

http://www.bayouclassicdepot.com/nv1...urner_part.htm

This is the one and the site I used.

BECARFUL OF THE FLAME GOING OUT. ALWAYS OPEN DOOR TO RELIGHT.

By the description, it might be model 3405GW. BTW, be sure your top vent is wide open, you don't want to create the possibility of stale smoke and or creosote. This also may effect temps, which leads me to ask at what rack level are you getting your temp reading. The top rack will usually be the coolest, that's on a big block with both bottom vents closed. As far as I know Landmann bought GOSM, and here's some contact info.

Landmann-USA, Inc
101 Old Mill Road
Building 300
Cartersville, GA 30120
770-606-8903 Toll free 1-877-347-4557


Good luck my friend.

Hi Rob,

Welcome to SMF glad you joined us.

1. You might consider drilling a few holes in the sides of your cabinet.

2. What Rich said, they have them in stock.

3. How are you going to hang the meat from the top shelf? Why not put another shelf in under the meat and hang more meat from that one?

5. If you google "Smokey Mountain Series Owners Manual" you will find a 28 page pdf file that covers 8 types of GOSM smokers.

I have added the needle valve to my smoker and can smoke as low as 180°, but common sense must be used to make certain there isn't a flame out, my smoker is protected from the wind and I use a remote therometer that is set at 10° below my cooking temp so that if there is a sudden drop in temps I'm alerted.

Have fun and enjoy your smoker,

Gene

Rob,

Yeah, it happens to me too, lots of times, duh...,

You might try covering the holes you drill with some flexible magnetic strips that you can cut to size, however I'm not sure that would lower the temp problem your having, my thinking is instead of increasing draft air (IMHO we don't need draft in a gas fired smoker, heat rises) I would decrease the BTU's produced by the burner and that is what the needle valve modification does. Before the needle valve mod my flame lengths on low were about 5/8 inch with orange tips, after the mod they are about 3/8 without any orange and that seems to work fine, once upon a time there was a post here showing pics of the flame before and after the modification, you might try a 'needle valve' search.

I smoke a little differently than most here and maybe that is why I have the results that I have, I installed a baffle in the top of my GOSM to slow the heat down that was escaping, I bent the tabs flat on the top vent and close it down to about 3/8 inch and I close the two bottom vents to their tabs, I have a WSM too and that is about the square inch area of the vents top and bottom on it and it smokes great, after doing this mod I found that my flame is less angry, so to speak, it doesn't move around alot, it is steady like the flame on my stove. Also, I have found with this mod that I can smoke 14 hours on 4 golf ball sized chunks of wood and 2 pieces of lump the same size, works for me, ...but every smoker is different.

There was an excellent post by forluvofsmoke on how he crammed his smoker full of jerky, might want to check it out in the jerky section, personally when I finally get around to try making some jerky or beef sticks I'm gonna use some small mesh expanded metal to lay on my racks and then lay another piece on some 4 cm (1 1/2") square aluminium tubing to double the capcity.

Gene