My new smoker.

[starch]

I found an old fridge on Craigslist for $50 so I jumped on it. I pulled out all the plastic and replaced it with sheet metal.  I had to sand it down and paint it because it was pink. It is PID controlled and works like a dream.

 

[SmokinAl]

Nice score!

 

[ellymae]

SWEET!

 

[tjohnson]

More Details on Your Build!!!

Todd

 

[carpetride]

That looks cool!

 

[roller]

That looks real good !

 

[daggerdoggie]

Very nice!

 

[mneeley490]

Very nice! What did you use for heat and smoke?

 

[starch]

A picture before and during the magical transformation.

 

[starch]

Here is my heat and smoke source. For the smoke I took the idea from the a-maze-n smoker and built a small trough from perforated steel. In the picture is the first try, which works great. In a bit I'm going to make one that will give me more smoke time (although this one will burn up to 3 hours). For the heat I went to Goodwill and scored an electric cast aluminum griddle. It set me back less that $5. Score!

 

[starch]

I bought a PID control, solid state relay, heat sink, and thermocouple from www.lightobject.com.

Here is a tutorial I made on another site (one on making knives) on how I wired everything together. The only real difference (other than one project is a kiln and one is a smoker) is that for the kiln I used a fan to cool the solid state relay and the smoker I used a heat sink. When I wired the smoker I pulled up this tutorial and followed it.

 

[starch]

After finishing I put this bad boy through it's paces.

Snack sticks

Polish Sausage

ABT's

 

[tyotrain]

wow real nice job.. and nice score..