- Feb 12, 2016
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Probably should have taken more pics as I was doing this, but, I didn't have a real clear path or plan. Most of this was just " shooting from the hip " , see what would happen, and fix or fab from that point and move forward....
This was early on , and I was still figuring out my basic plan.... In general, to use a range than had been sitting around, coupled with an external " smoke generator " , still try to use the original heat and control elements for a simple - easy to use platform for year-round smoking...
This was my first stab at the smoke generator, - an old gas cylinder that was going to be my "fire crucible" with valves on the intake an exhaust. It was supposed to be pretty adjustable , self contained, and easy to use.... it wasn't... was a pain to reload due to the top access and difficult to make it not leak smoke...
It worked, but, getting it started and lit and burning to a sustainable level was difficult... but you can see that it actually did make smoke...
And... Here was a quick mock-up to see how it would act... at the time it seemed doable ....
I'll break this here, and let this much upload, and continue on with reply posts..
This was early on , and I was still figuring out my basic plan.... In general, to use a range than had been sitting around, coupled with an external " smoke generator " , still try to use the original heat and control elements for a simple - easy to use platform for year-round smoking...
This was my first stab at the smoke generator, - an old gas cylinder that was going to be my "fire crucible" with valves on the intake an exhaust. It was supposed to be pretty adjustable , self contained, and easy to use.... it wasn't... was a pain to reload due to the top access and difficult to make it not leak smoke...
It worked, but, getting it started and lit and burning to a sustainable level was difficult... but you can see that it actually did make smoke...
And... Here was a quick mock-up to see how it would act... at the time it seemed doable ....
I'll break this here, and let this much upload, and continue on with reply posts..