Has anyone DIY'd a pellet conversion/looking for parts

[ncsmoker95]

Hi all,

I'm wanting to build my own pellet feeder for either my Brinkmanns offset smoker,
or perhaps the MES30.

I am also on a fairly low budget with the Finance Minister, so the full on pellet kits at $400-$600 are out of budget.
At those prices, I should just buy a whole lower-end pellet smoker like a Pit Boss!


I have experience with PID controllers and automation controls, but I'm not a mechanical guy.

Hoping someone has an auger and stepper motor assembly, or has ideas about where to find those sorts of things from other industries, etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Tim

 

[ncsmoker95]

By the way...

I will WARN PEOPLE...

There are some sites out there
Hainshow, etc..
They purport to offer the ENTIRE
pellet hopper/chassis/auger/controller
For $75 or less..

THESE ARE SCAMS..
You can check the merchant scam reporting sites and you'll find that people have reported hundreds of times buying all kinds of things from these too-good-to-be-true sites and never receiving anything!

I didn't do it - but buyer beware..

Check the reputation of some of these sites!

 

[Fueling Around]

Curb find or your local FB market is your better source for a cheap pellet pooper.
Not sure your location, but friends of mine in NW MN got a fully functional Pitboss off the curb that the previous owner had left the pellets in the hopper and auger that swelled into wet sawdust.

 

[ncsmoker95]

Curb find or your local FB market is your better source for a cheap pellet pooper.
Not sure your location, but friends of mine in NW MN got a fully functional Pitboss off the curb that the previous owner had left the pellets in the hopper and auger that swelled into wet sawdust.

Yeah, I could wish for that!!

I've heard thats quite the disaster to leave pellets in there!