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I got an RT-700 2 weeks ago and have been cooking every day on it since. IMO, quality is top notch. Assembly was very easy. And this thing smokes, grills, bakes, with ease. Great temperature control. My wife loves it because she hasn't cooked for 2 weeks. Customer support has been excellent. I...

Also interested what the problem was and if Camp Chef fixed. Thinking of getting the ZG at Dick's this weekend.

Search the forum, a couple of members have piped their vents outside an enclosed space. My MES is currently under the patio near our back door, but the smoke works its way into the house, driving my wife crazy, so I might do something similar. Here's a picture of a 3" duct I have in the vent hole.

Three inches.

Thanks and nice job on your mod too. I've completed a couple of meat smokes with the mailbox mod and it works great. 

The 30 is about 5 inches more narrow than the 40. That puts the AMNPS snug against the heating elements. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just did the mailbox mod with AMNPS for my MES 30. No fan needed. The heat rising up through the MES to the vent at the top will suck the smoke right out of the mailbox through the chip loader duct into the MES. It works great and is a very simple mod.

Any pictures?

Yes the 30" does not have much space at the bottom. It's more narrow than the 40.

After this experience, I did a mailbox mod for my AMNPS. The mailbox mod works great.

Thanks for info. I smoked a pork butt yesterday with the MES 30, mailbox and AMNPS. I covered all the mounting holes in the bottom of the box and left the 3 on the door I drilled wide open. This seem to improve airflow across the "top" of the AMNPS and up the duct at the back. This smoke I also...

I have limited space in my patio, so I needed to reduce footprint of smoker.

With the holes on bottom sealed and the 3 1/2" holes on the door, the mailbox worked perfect on a 15 hour pork butt smoke yesterday. I got a good 11-12 hours of TBS out of the mailbox with the AMNPS. There was still some smoke coming off of it when I pulled the butt at 15 hours. The heat and...

I see you have a MES stand on your smoker. I was able to rig a mount for my mailbox using aluminum channel rails and u-bolts. You can see the rails in the picture below. In the future, I might do an additional mode to have the ducting enter into the top of the box instead of the back, for a more...

After a first test run on my mailbox mod, I sealed all the holes on the bottom of the box. Once I start the AMNPS, I want to control the venting with the holes I drilled on the front door. I can't do that with the holes on the bottom, once smoke has started.