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cpl0313

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Just picked it up and did the initial season burn
 

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It is. Local company to me in Georgia. I’ve seen quite a few of their smokers at KCBS comps over the years and finally pulled the trigger.
 
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I have a Masterbuilt 560 GF. Found it on sale at Walmart for half price and bought it just mostly out of curiosity about GF's. As a smoker, I love it and its piqued my interest in GF's. I've been looking at upgrading but its a big jump in price from the MB to a quality GF.

I'm guessing that's an Assassin 17 ? I've looked at that one and the Southern Q Limo Jr. Will be interested in how it cooks.
 
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I'm very interested in how air flows from the charcoal chute into the cook chamber.

I was closely looking at an Old Country Gravity Feed. But I kept reading about it taking a long time to get up to temp. It seems there were air flow problems. An ATC was a small improvement for some.

But I looked closer at how OC designed the cooker. They forced the air down with a baffle inside the cook chamber, as I've marked in the pic below. And then it flows under a deflector plate. I think hot air is never meant to flow down and my theory is that and the two 90* turns, creates the air flow problem.

From what I can tell just from user pics, other GF makers have air flowing directly into the bottom of the cook chamber and then use a deflector plate. Its a straight shot into the cook chamber from the charcoal chute. The actual fire box is below the bottom of the cook chamber.

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I'm very interested in how air flows from the charcoal chute into the cook chamber.

I was closely looking at an Old Country Gravity Feed. But I kept reading about it taking a long time to get up to temp. It seems there were air flow problems. An ATC was a small improvement for some.

But I looked closer at how OC designed the cooker. They forced the air down with a baffle inside the cook chamber, as I've marked in the pic below. And then it flows under a deflector plate. I think hot air is never meant to flow down and my theory is that and the two 90* turns, creates the air flow problem.

From what I can tell just from user pics, other GF makers have air flowing directly into the bottom of the cook chamber and then use a deflector plate. Its a straight shot into the cook chamber from the charcoal chute. The actual fire box is below the bottom of the cook chamber.

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The green line is the smoker temp. It took about 30 minutes to go from 39 degrees to 225.
 

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