Recent content by bradsmoke

Sorry for the delay- here it was, taking up pretty much the whole of the grill area on my timberline 1300

I just bought a 33lb monster (untrimmed). Its going on tonight will take some pics. Its huge.

Wired the thermostat up and tested. I put a 3ply cardboard sheet over the big hole in the top of the oven (where the second oven will sit once I've worked out how I'm going to lift it on). Set target temp to 85C. It reached this within about 10 minutes and held it there steady. I didn't want to...

Holes drilled and element mounted. I'm just going with 1 x 2.5kw element to start with, hopefully this will be powerful enough or I will need to add another.

I'm using the inside top liner to make a false bottom for the oven. I also managed to salvage some metal from an old oven a friend was throwing out, am going to use this to mount my element. Both sprayed with oven cleaner awaiting a good scrub.

Been busy recently and not managed to update the thread. I have made a base for the smoker to sit on, with castor wheels so I can move it (slightly) to clean behind it etc. Just need to line the top with fireboard.

I think I have it worked out- I managed to find a really helpful video on youtube which explained the basics. Can post the link to the vid if anyone interested. If you have got a link though for the instructions that would be great- it never hurts to have them on file just in case! Mine were all...

My ebay PID arrived yesterday. I didnt get back in until late, but managed to do a bench test. I wired it to a spotlight for testing purposes. Actual temp shown on screen was accurate (19c) and I set desired temperature at 28c. The light started pulsing on an off. I put the probe in some cold...

Thanks for the welcome! Will be sure to check out the UK forums. Wade- I looked at the FEC120 but was a bit out of my budget though a great looking unit. I really like the look of the bbqmates builds, thanks for the link! 

Then the angle grinder again

Really it needs to be one big chamber not two seperate ovens, so after procrastinating for a while and trying (unsucessfully) to unscrew the lid from the bottom oven, I decided to saw a big hole in it. First I drilled pilot holes where the corners of the cuts will be to prevent stressing (these...

First got rid of all the gas burners and pipework etc. Spanners and angle grinder did the trick here.

I'm going for an electric setup, possibly 5kw? total (im thinking 2 x 2.5kw elements) with PID for controlling the temperature. I was hoping it was one big oven chamber, turns out to be two seperate ovens stacked one on top of the other. Good job really, these things are heavy! Needed a forklift...

Hi all, Decided I wanted an electric hot smoker, but I'm in the UK and all the electric ones here are either rubbish, small or expensive so thought I would build/ convert one. I was convinced for ages that I wanted to do a fridge build. But the insulation (toxic fumes/catching fire issues etc)...

Hi all Been lurking here for a while. I've liked smoked foods for a long time and was lucky enough to spend some time in Australia recently working for a low n slow BBQ eatery. Back home now I've been looking to smoke but cant find a set and forget kind of smoker at a reasonable price which is...