Stack mod

[natej]

Just wanted to thank motocrash for some advice on modding the stack height, lowering it to grate level

Went and got a length of firesafe heating duct from the aircon guys at the jobsite im currently on (ahh beer, the currency of tradesmen)

Cut it down so that when inserted into the Stack, it sat 2cm off the cooking grate, put the water pan down near the baffle to take the brunt of the heat and fired up the cooker to see how she runs

After some adjusting the tuning plates.. here are the results, its quite surrising.. pre mod, the closest I could get end to end was ballpark 50 degrees and I could get a section of the cooking surface near the stack to within 20 degrees

Probes are placed near the new stack and at the opposite end of the cooker

Here's the mod

Up to temp

Settled back in to 280

Dropped back so time to put on a couple splits

And she' back up to temp again

The only thing I noticed is that the very middle section runs 10 degrees hotter than end to end but im really not worried about that, anything within 10 degrees i consider even temps

Just wanted to say a big thankyou to motocrash for the help

 

[motocrash]

You're welcome Nate.Excellent results.I have a question...Where's the Beef !? Ahh,you're probably too young to remember that or maybe they didn't have that ad campaign down there.

Well...now on to stage 2!

Bill

 

[pops6927]

 

[motocrash]

There ya go pops! I like the one when she's driving too.

 

[natej]

Haha I don' think we ever had those commercials in the land of OZ

 

[motocrash]

If you did have'm down under,you weren't born yet when they were out- mid 80's.I thought of it because your therm read beef in the pics.

Cheers mate!