Master Forge verticle with mods

[davidhef88]

You still have time to get a couple hours of smoke on some cheese tonight. Lol.

 

[kingfishcam]

Oh ya, I managed to get my SS needle valve installed tonight too.

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• kingfishcam
• Mar 18, 2013

 

[kingfishcam]

Na, long day. 2 beers and I am done for today.

 

[kingfishcam]

I am doing a season/learning curve burn right now, and my temp is hovering nicely between 225 and 232, even in the pretty good breeze we have. I am running the 12 inch Tube for some smoke.
How long should I let it go???

 

[davidhef88]

I'd let it go a couple hours to see the burn time on the tube. After the mods is is running on low?

 

[kingfishcam]

I shut the heat off at about 2 hours. Both vents closed, top vent wide open. Burner set on low, and closed off the needle valve some.
Tube was about half at that point, and putting out a nice, thin blue/slightly white smoke that smelled good.

I feel comfortable enough to run a 3-2-1 rib dinner now. :)

 

[davidhef88]

Sounds like you should have it dialed in without any problems. Great little smoker after some mods. I sill have to get the needle valve.

 

[kingfishcam]

I fired this up inside my garage, and was able to maintain 145-150 using the needle valve with closed vents the other night too.

I should add the water tray was empty, and the chip tray was not in the smoker tonight.

 

[kingfishcam]

Well, baby backs were the break in smoke. Enjoy the pic!

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• kingfishcam
• Mar 23, 2013

Finished product..

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• kingfishcam
• Mar 23, 2013

 

[davidhef88]

Looks like a success.

 

[jerky]

Can you tell me where you purchased the cover from?

 

[kingfishcam]

Got the cover from lowes. It was not labeled specific to the smoker though.

 

[kingfishcam]

Got the cover from lowes. It was not labeled specific to the smoker though.

 

[kingfishcam]

Got the cover from lowes. It was not labeled specific to the smoker though.

 

[flyinlizard]

 Were do you get the needle valve that you mentioned?

 

[weevil]

So right after I posted about some questions I had in regard to using the 3/8" gasket, I see that you did the same thing a couple months ago.  After gluing in the gasket did you have any issues with getting the door closed and latched?  I was playing with the gasket by lining it around without glue and I could not get the door to close at all.  Makes me very worried about gluing it in place without knowning for sure my door will close!

Also, I like what you did for adding a spot for the 12" tube.  I have one as well and it will be on its maiden voyage tomorrow.  Question though - is there any issue with having it directly below the side vent or do you usually keep it closed most/all the way?

Thanks!

 

[kingfishcam]

The doors close pretty stuff, but within the adjustment. And yes, I keep the side vent closed with the 12 inch AMPS. Works great!

As for the needle valve, I got mine from a local distributor that sells gas products. Not a normal hardware store item.

 

[ps0303]

My 12" AMPS worked great when I did a smoke yesterday.  Set it on bottom left side and vent closed. Worked great and I am not sure why I waited so long to buy one.  4 hours of continuous smoke.
 

 

[jsphoto]

I got at 12" tube after reading this thread.

Question:

I placed the tube as you showed in the bottom of the smoker, but smoke was coming out of the side vent.

The side vents on the master forge don't seem to close completely due to the finger tabs, did you make any modifications there?

Thanks,

Jason

 

[ps0303]

I do get some smoke out mine but if yours has too much coming out, you could close it off with a piece of sheet metal.