Brinkman Propane gasser conversion

[grampyskids]

Holding low temps in my vertical Brinkman is impossible. So here is my thought to make it a multi-purpose smoker. If I put an electric hot plate on the bottom of the smoker and put a cast iron frypan filled with chips/sawdust I should be able to use it to cold smoke and make jerky. Any suggestions or thoughts?

 

[dick bullard]

What size burner did you put in it....I converted mine with a 30,000 BTU and can get stable low temps........

Rick

 

[grampyskids]

I threw this out to see what would stick to help me. Where did you get your burner?

 

[dick bullard]

Here is the link....someone else had posted it after making a conversion also! Here are pics of mine.........Rick

http://www.savezoneusa.com/shop/step1.php?number=609

 

[dick bullard]

Sorry about the pics....let's try that again !!!.....Rick
Link is good though !!! There is a smaller size available also I believe.....

 

[thebeav]

I want to try this with my ECB.  I have an old propane grill that I gould hack the side burner off or I have a turkey fryer.  Has anyone ever tried this?

Beav

 

[ga.rick]

i coverted my electric ecb to a propane with the gasssmoker coversion.

i put a grate on top of the burner with some lavarock then use a metal woodchip box

for smoke. added a new thermometor at grate level. this thing holds temp almost perfect.

always a good smoke ring on my que. probally wound up with about 100.00 in the whole set up.

 

[eman]

i coverted my electric ecb to a propane with the gasssmoker coversion.

i put a grate on top of the burner with some lavarock then use a metal woodchip box

for smoke. added a new thermometor at grate level. this thing holds temp almost perfect.

always a good smoke ring on my que. probally wound up with about 100.00 in the whole set up.

Rick,

 I have a question.

 I never have used a gas smoker but used to have a gas pit.

 what is the purpose of using lava rocks in a smoker?

 couldn't you just put a rack above the banjo burner to hold a chip box/pan ???

 

[ga.rick]

eman you are probally right about the lava rocks. you see years ago i bought a little propane smoken/grill

from brinkman it had lava rock probably for the grill optoin i got used to the setup so when i converted

this one i did it like that. also i wanted a little space between the chipbox and the burner.

who knows it may help stabalize the temp.