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Looking good so far, Lou!
I do have a couple questions about your build:
1) Do you plan to make a work surface in front of the cook chamber door? I was surprised to see how far back you have the cooker mounted.
I am not a fan of leaning over a tire and having to reach in to get to the food...
So I ordered two tubes of the LavaLock silicone style from Island Outdoors on ebay. I resealed my smoker and tested it out over the past couple weeks. I ended up using 1 1/2 of the small 3oz tubes. I initially wasn't wild about the seal color being bright orange, but the seal is very good...
Here's what I do know about it so far, I am not going to suggest anyone to try and use it on doors or any moving parts type of application. When I initially installed it, it seemed to work great. Sealed and held. Over the past month, the stuff has dried/cured and has started coming off the...
Dirt,
I see that product comes in 2 different forms, Seal tape and food-safe silicone. Which did you have the best luck with?
Many thanks for the input!
Dirt....
Awesome, thanks for the info. Will look into this. I would much rather use something that doesn't have cancer warnings all over the packaging. lol
*Danger Will Robinson*
So it has been on only for a few weeks and I have already had a chunk fall off. Not sure if this is a warning sign or just a one-off issue.
Keeping my eye on it, so don't rush out and but that tube yet!
Looking good, can't wait to see some of your Q! I have been running mine every weekend since completing it enough to cook on. Made 3 racks of ribs and bunch of Jamaican Jerk chicken wings on it this past weekend. This weekend is a friend's birthday party on Saturday as well my daughter's...
I have been struggling with the idea of obtaining good seal, without using hi-temp silicone (cancer warnings suck) or the rope seals that don't stick worth a dang and people complain about. Today, I used a stove and fireplace sealant by Red Devil. Rated for up to 1200 degrees. Though it goes...
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