No not in the fire box, you sais tuning plates soi I thought you were talking about the cooking chamber, My bad
You asked about fire bricks on your tuning plates I just told you what I do, the way I have mine rigged the chimney side gets hotter and I slide the bricks for fine adjustments. If you have fire bricks try them on the plates, but sometimes I over think things and really mess things up and have to start all over again. I first tried to make a tunning plate out of a cookie sheet really tore want hair I had left out then I bought a Horizon Plate and things started going right. Sometimes ya just gotta play
drPHX81, you have done some nice mods on yours.
The stainless expanded metal cooking grate looks good, was it pricey ?
I will try the felt gasket on mine, whenever the high temp seal does not work anymore.
Looking forward to seeing and hearing how it all works for you.
I replaced the porcelain grates that came with the smoker with 3/4 inch stainless explained metal. I had the metal shop cut the piece into 3 pieces and used a grinding dremel bit to take down the razor sharp edges.
I removed the garbage metal wheels and replaced them with 10 inch dolly wheels.
It's much for level and a pleasure to move around!
Did you have to do any modifying to the legs on the opposite side of the wheels to fine tune leveling the grill or the 10" wheel replacements where good to go off the bat? Where did you get those from? Home Depot?