- Nov 5, 2010
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My first question too "Why do you want to soak your chips?"Alright, I sent mb techguy a PM asking about the retrofit chip tray.
Will this tray allow me to soak chips for 30min?
thanks.
I have not seen you say what temperature you were trying to smoke at. My MES smokes quite well at 250 and not at all at 150. It is an older model with a full chip tray.
I would definitely recommend doing the chip tray replacement, assuming that your chip tray is half width.
If you want to do cold or warm smoking -- you will need a smoke generator. I (and lots of others) recommend checking out the A-Maze-N smoker. A search will turn up lots of threads talking about it, and also some demo videos. I have one and it works great for cold smoking cheese.
Bulldog,
Here is the retro kit instructions on video.
If your chip drawer looks like the one the guy in the video is removing, you should be able to get the one he puts back in the smoker later in the video for free.
If yours already looks like the one he is putting in, then you have a different problem.
Darryl (MBtechguy) is a very busy guy. He'll get there as soon as he can.
Great guy to deal with!
Link to video:
http://www.masterbuilt.com/video/sept2010/smokeretrokit.wmv
Bear
I'm just guessing, but I'm thinking there were a lot of them in the pipeline when they discovered (from guys like us) that there was a problem. So (remember I'm guessing here) I figure they had orders to fill, and didn't have time to make enough of the retros to replace them before shipping them out. I would also think the ones they send out to really really cold places, and to people who never cold or warm smoke, and do all of their smoking at 230˚ and above temps, they don't have to send them retros.Bear, thanks.
I do have the little box, I will need the big box.
:(
Why do they sell a defective product?
Mod looks very easy.
Cut it out!!!Thanks again.
If it were not for you / other guys, I'de be SOL.
Actually it is not a defective product but a simple design flaw which they are correcting for free on any unit that needs it.Bear, thanks.
I do have the little box, I will need the big box.
:(
Why do they sell a defective product?
Mod looks very easy.
Actually it is not a defective product but a simple design flaw which they are correcting for free on any unit that needs it.
It is no different than if you bought a new car and they later found out that a part was defective and you had to go in to have it replaced.
Having owned a Bradley which was a P.O.S. before buying the MES I can say with confidence that the MES is the best unit out there for the Price.
Darryl usually checks the forum about once a week so be patient with him and he will take care of you...
Actually it is not a defective product but a simple design flaw which they are correcting for free on any unit that needs it.
It is no different than if you bought a new car and they later found out that a part was defective and you had to go in to have it replaced.
Having owned a Bradley which was a P.O.S. before buying the MES I can say with confidence that the MES is the best unit out there for the Price.
Darryl usually checks the forum about once a week so be patient with him and he will take care of you...
Actually it is not a defective product but a simple design flaw which they are correcting for free on any unit that needs it.
It is no different than if you bought a new car and they later found out that a part was defective and you had to go in to have it replaced.
Having owned a Bradley which was a P.O.S. before buying the MES I can say with confidence that the MES is the best unit out there for the Price.
Darryl usually checks the forum about once a week so be patient with him and he will take care of you...
Well, I was not getting any smoke with dry chips.
So I read somewhere that a temp fix while I wait for the retro kit, is to bend the wood tray down a little, I did this, and I got smoke!
(when I did the burn in day, it was COLD.
It is warm today, prob why it is not smoking.
Colorado is crazy, one day it could snow, the next day it could be 80f.