member needing some advice

[wade]

 
Thanks for the reply

The door has an adjustable catch so can be left open to feed air, but when I do that the smoke just falls out of that opening.

The only way to create draw it to offset the roof of the smoking chamber which doesn't work that well. I may try adding a chimney at some stage.

It worked fine with the fire so I guess the problem is with cold smoking. I might invest in a cheap battery fan to put in either chamber ( even the smoking chamber gets barely more that worm)

A work in progress

The problem with opening the door is that the opening is the full height of the smoke box - and the smoke will therefore take the easiest route out. You need to create the environment where the heat produced by the smoke generator rises and flows through the pipe causing a natural air flow up and out through the top of the smoker. In order to do this you need to restrict the air intake in the firebox to the bottom quarter of the door.

Before you make any holes in the door you may want to do some trials. Make a temporary door out of card or plywood and tape it on in place of the door. You can then cut a small air vent towards the bottom and experiment with the size before making any holes in the door..

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• wade
• Feb 22, 2017

 

[smokin monkey]

Before you make any holes in the door you may want to do some trials. Make a temporary door out of card or plywood and tape it on in place of the door. You can then cut a small air vent towards the bottom and experiment with the size before making any holes in the door..

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• wade
• Feb 22, 2017

Great idea Wade, about the cardboard door.

 

[wade]

 
At last I have an update.

I bought an exhaust baffle and folded over the ends, wrapped that end in tin foil.

I  have also bought some apple pellets for smoking so yesterday I thought I would give it a go with some cheese.

the pellets caught easily and produced a nice white smoke.

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• stringman
• Feb 21, 2017

I tested a couple of different diameters of baffle tube a couple of weeks ago and just used tinfoil at one end.

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• wade
• Feb 22, 2017

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• wade
• Feb 22, 2017

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• wade
• Feb 22, 2017

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• wade
• Feb 22, 2017

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• wade
• Feb 22, 2017

Both tubes were 12" long and one was 2" diameter and the other was 1.75" diameter. Both lit well and stayed alight, however the 2" tube seemed to burn noticeably faster than the 1.75" and produced a lot more (too much) smoke. I used the 1.75" in the cold smoker to smoke some nuts and a single load of pellets lasted about 45 minutes. I will do a more scientific comparison in a few weeks.