Brinkmann Trailmaster Limited Edition

[smokey whaler]

New to the smokingforum! But have done a little smoking on my grill. Love grilling and smoking so I purchased a Brinkmann trailmaster from BJs on sale for $249!!! Have been doing mods to it so I haven't used it yet

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• smokey whaler
• Jun 1, 2015

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• Jun 1, 2015

 

[pete5574]

What kind of latch is on the doors and where did you get?

 

[smokey whaler]

Horizontal toggle clamp from Harbor Fright

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• smokey whaler
• Jun 3, 2015

 

[smokey whaler]

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• Jun 4, 2015

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• Jun 4, 2015

 

[gary s]

Nice, Looking Good

Gary

 

[pete5574]

What are the measurements for the tuning plates?

 

[smokering90]

I did mine at 6x14.5

 

[ghostred7]

Question for you all since the BTLE is on my radar....

Does anyone here actually grill on it also?  If we go this route, I'd definitely want it to pull double-duty. 

 

[smokeymoake]

I grill on the fire box all the time. More often then I smoke. I can move food to the smoking chamber as needed, do reverse sears.

There is more than enough room for grilling.

Here are some Porterhouses on a reverse sear.

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• smokeymoake
• Jun 8, 2015

On the grill now

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• Jun 8, 2015

 

[smokeymoake]

I fixed it!

 

[gary s]

Nice looking steaks

Gary

 

[ghostred7]

I grill on the fire box all the time. More often then I smoke. I can move food to the smoking chamber as needed, do reverse sears.

There is more than enough room for grilling.

Here are some Porterhouses on a reverse sear.

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• smokeymoake
• Jun 8, 2015

On the grill now

Thanks!! 

I just found out that I'm hosting a July 4 party and probably going to have to direct-grill a metric s**t-ton of grub lol.  Potentially looking at cooking for the entire cul-de-sac.  I guess the question was more:  has, in your experiences, switching back & forth from using it fully as a grill across entire cooking surface to smoker across entire cooking surface, been an easy switch or a giant PITA?  I'm guessing it depends on the mods, etc and their permanence.

What are the dimensions of the firebox itself?  From vids I've seen on assembly, it looks almost as big as my currently rusting out grill (char-something 600 american something lol).

 

[smokeymoake]

OK I got the pics up, better go back and check them, but your answer is no. I only use the fire box. It will hold quite a bit. Prolly 12 strips, 15 burgers, 5 breasts, 7 thighs ( did that the other day)

I keep the smoking chamber clean from fire and ash. You can move 3/4 done food over there though.

 

[ghostred7]

Awesome, thx

 

[smokey whaler]

Just finished the my heat distribution plate!! Not bad for $18.00 and its 14g steel!!!

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• smokey whaler
• Jun 10, 2015

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• Jun 10, 2015

 

[philter171]

that looks great and for much lower cost than purchasing a commercial made product!  details please?

 

[smokey whaler]

that looks great and for much lower cost than purchasing a commercial made product!  details please?

Thanks!! I went to my local Steel company and they had pieces of scraps( that piece was 19" X 40" for $18) so I cut it to 14 1/2" x 32" and just bended it to the the shape that I wanted which was a little difficult luckily I had a vise to put it in. Then I had to measure out where and how many holes I wanted to make
3/8 to 1/2" holes!

 

[gary s]

Looks Good, just needs dirtying up

Gary

 

[smokeymeatchow]

I had the opportunity to use the Trailmaster about 4 times, and found that it was pretty easy to use after experimenting with it. I had to smoke about 15 good sized trout at about 185. I found that it maintained this low heat by keeping the firebox damper almost wide open and adjusting my heat with the chimney pipe and starting with that almost closed, then gradually opening it up till I got to the right temp, and it seamed to work perfect. However, I also found that there is a slight temp variation between the surface of the grate and the temperature gauge which the probe of that is higher up mounted on the door. So I used a digital wireless temp reader (Redi Chek) and put that probe on the grate giving me a much more accurate reading. It didn't appear to matter much that the smoke was leaking from the firebox.....hope this helps a little.

 

[smoke n jnp]

Hi Yllib 137,

I just bought one from Home Depot. Cost $299.00