Recent content by CubsWIn

I'm going to keep trying some troubleshooting, and as long as they keep sending me parts I'll keep putting them in, but at some point I may just decide to throw in the towel. Are there other more "foolproof" smoker models that people would recommend? I don't really care about fancy features...

I'm not seeing an internal temperature probe. It obviously has to be there "somewhere", but I don't see anything on the back wall. Nevermind, I see it now. I need to try cleaning the probe, vacuum out the burn pot AGAIN, and start over. If that doesn't work, then it's yet another part swap...

I am getting very frustrated now... I cleaned the burn pot out again and now it's just shooting flames into the burn pot and overheating almost instantly.

Not exactly, but that's a longer story. I had a problem during my last cook (last fall). The smoker ran out of pellets and apparently had overheated. I shut everything down, but when I came back and checked on everything I found that the auger motor no longer worked and the window on the side...

I am still relatively new to smoking meat and I currently have 2 corned beef brisket flats in my Pit Boss vertical smoker. They have been cooking for about 8 hours, but I just noticed that the temperature in my smoker was starting to creep up. I have it set to 250, but it has reached as high...

You are absolutely right. I had never had it run out of pellets before while cooking, but I opened the hopper up and it was empty. Along with that, the tray underneath was completely full of pellets and ash, so it looks like that is what allowed some embers to spill out onto the deck. I think...

I have a Pit Boss Series 4 vertical smoker and I am a relative newbie to the smoker world. I have done a few pork shoulders, some briskets, and ribs in the past, but only on a very occasional basis. Yesterday I decided to smoke a pork shoulder for dinner. I cleaned the burn pot out in the...