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    The Gibson, A pellet fridge project.

    So after doing a bit of looking around, decided to try a little something different on the exhaust.  Going to use this adapter to a 6" exhaust stack on the side to create a bit of natural draft through the smoker.  Sometimes going outside of the norm requires a bit of testing and trials, I'm ok...
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    The Gibson, A pellet fridge project.

    Well did a couple of cooks this weekend with mixed results.  Temps maintained with the fans but ended up with some backburn down the auger on a long cook.  Did some more testing tonight: I did the bag test tonight (placing bag over hopper with door open, rule is if the bag fills with air there...
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    The Gibson, A pellet fridge project.

    Almost forgot the chart of temps so far:
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    The Gibson, A pellet fridge project.

    She lives!!!  Finally breathing a bit of smoke.  Ran it through some test paces and came to a couple of conclusions: These things take a hot minute to cool down once up to temp!  Burned it in for a while at 350, then dropped to 180 to run for a while, took forever (see #2) but it initally went...
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    The Gibson, A pellet fridge project.

    I thought about doing just such a thing for a brief second, then realized what I would have to charge to make it worth while!    Problem lies in adapting anything, and the "engineering" time spent in such an endeavor.  Profit in this type of thing comes in multiples generally not on one offs...
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    The Gibson, A pellet fridge project.

    So the gasket I ordered... too thick!  I had a gap of 3/8" and ordered 3/4" foam rubber with a hole in the middle.  After mounting the gasket, I figured as soon as I got the door closed and latched any additional would conform.  How'd that go?  Not too good!  Couldn't get the door to latch, just...
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    The Gibson, A pellet fridge project.

    Thanks for the points! To answer a couple of the questions:   Side vent:  Trying something new!  I kind of fashioned it after the Cookshack FEC100.  It has a side mount exhaust.  I figure (hope) between the forced air through the pellet hopper and the additional fresh air fan it will circulate...
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    The Gibson, A pellet fridge project.

    Note to self: When building fridge, make sure the wheels are adequate. Don't make the mistake I did and put 2" wheels in the stock locations! Fridge almost falls over when the door opens, that sucker is heavy! Can't even imagine what a door with a significant amount of steel would weigh. Guess...
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