travisb
Smoke Blower
Sorry, where exactly do you put the can? Don't think I'm following exactly.Yeah, what Dave said.
The chimney just sits there...... No drilling required.
Sorry, where exactly do you put the can? Don't think I'm following exactly.Yeah, what Dave said.
The chimney just sits there...... No drilling required.
I wouldn't "86" the "Water Pan". I would dump the water out, and cover the empty water pan with foil, and put it back in place.Guys, thank you all. I'm copy/pasting your comments onto a Word doc that I can refer to because these are great suggestions. Guess I gotta build up my lungs, 86 the water pan, pull out the wood chip tray a couple of inches, and I'll be good to go. I'll experiment with nuked/non-nuked/oven heated pellets and track the results and differences, if any. I always place the AMNPS on the two bars to the left of the heating element/chip burner cover.Top vent is always wide open and I always preheat the MES 30, inserting the AMNPS only when it's at the target temp.
As for the extended chimney, I need to think about that since I'm not really a mod kind of guy. The last mod I did was drilling screws into the leg holders of my Weber charcoal kettle grill to prevent the legs from falling off. I can always find a soup can but I'm not clear on how to attach it to the top of the MES.
Bearcarver, when I smoked two racks of spareribs a week or so ago I wished I had had the 40-inch MES since the ribs were right up against the smoker walls at the outset. But, the 30-inch on sale was in my price range and usually the 30-inch is fine for my purposes. Even if a brisket starts out too wide by the time it's thru cooking it's shrunk down far enough to no longer be touching the walls.
Yep, Foamheart, I thought I might get ONE response to my question. This outpouring of help blows my mind. This shows how respected Todd is around here--he hasn't had to outsource his customer service department because no one's on his payroll. I'm still concerned that I never heard back from him; I hope it's because he's really busy building smokers and filling orders. I really do like the AMNPS and with the advice from everybody here, I'm sure I'll no longer have the pellet flameout problem. Thank you all.
Thanks. Did it help you a lot? I always have trouble keeping my AMNPS going.With the side vent get a 3 inch adjustable elbow from lowes or depot. Get a 3 inch butterfly damper and install in the elbow. Remove the existing vent assembly and the new elbow fits exactly into the mes hole. I have a picture on my homepage and don't know how to get the pic on the thread.
Hey, I love a mod where I don't have to hardly to anything.
I can handle this except for, what kind of soup or fruit?
And yes, I greatly enjoy being a member of these forums.
I thought finding "this particular can" would be a challenge for your fix....This is the only can that will work..............
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LOL---It is set & forget. Do like I do---No can on vent----No dripping on food.Bear, you're giving me more and more work to do here. First I put the can opened at both ends on top of the top vent and THEN I gotta cover the meat underneath it with foil? I thought the MES was invented by Ron Popeil to just "set it and forget it". You mean there's extra work involved?
I'm going to cover the water pan with foil instead of filling it with sand. First, I'd have to buy the sand but I already have tons of heavy duty aluminum foil. Second, Todd didn't much like the sand in the water pan idea because I think he said it was an inefficient heat sink, or something like that.
Told the wife we have to go out and buy more air tight containers. Costco sells a pack of OXO plastic ones in assorted sizes that is really great. They would be perfect for the wood pellets. We also have an abundance of cans I can use since my wife runs her daycare in our home and there are TONS of empty fruit and vegie cans every week in regular and large sizes. I think a regular size can oughta do it.
Thanks. Did it help you a lot? I always have trouble keeping my AMNPS going.
I gotta remember that, if my Gen #1 ever takes a crap, and I have to get a #2.The airflow on the gen 2 is highly restrictive. It doesnt allow moisture, smoke, or air to flow freely enough. The elbow / damper install, and pulling out the chip loader solved all problems.
I gotta remember that, if my Gen #1 ever takes a crap, and I have to get a #2.
But then again hopefully they'll make improvements to the #2, like going back to the #1 design.
Bear
I'm not sure how to do the quote attribution thing but the above is from geerock and my reply is directed to you as well. Why don't you just sell the unopened MES on ebay or some other marketplace or put an ad in the classified ads?Masterbuilt found out I was not happy and telling my negative experience on the forums so what do they do? They send me another one. Its been sitting unopened in the box in the garage for 2 months.
If the control is in a box that mounts on the top/back, it's Gen #1. ---Great smoker!Newb here, and I'm a bit confused and looking for some clarification on the Gen 1 vs Gen 2 issue. I just purchased an MES 30 from Amazon, and when I was looking through the smokers they had available, I noticed that both the 30 and 40 come in 2 types, listed as "Old generation" and "New generation". Based on some posts I had read here and on some other, less informative forums, I purchased the old generation. It arrived yesterday and was assembled and seasoned in preparation to use in anger today. The model number is 20070411 and the vent is on the top. Is this a gen 1 or a gen 2 (indicating there is a gen 3 now out there)?