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It's alive Held 250 after a 10 degree over shoot within +- 3 degress then took it to 400 and held it there.

just need to test how even the heat it.

next up a brisket and pork shoulder

sounds like my little project. Should work fine and i will have to let you know how my smoker works

Finished the controller and the program. Screen shot from my phone showing the pismoker program. Tomorrow will try to light the fire.

Finishe the top door just need to complete the handles and pellet hopper top.

Bringing to home this weekend to install the controls

Finished painting and started to assemble the unit with the 1" roxul insulation. Everything is sealed inside and out with high temp silicone.

Just waiting for handles to finish the door and install my custom control unit.

installed the stack and damper so i can select which stack i want and experiment with it.

well I am doing an initial assembly then diassembling and painting. I am trying to decide if the insulation is nessecary. It will be sealed doubled walles with 12ga inside wall and 16 ga outside.

Made some progress and now sheeting the outside. Also starting to work on the controller.

Finished part of the grease collection and started the jeat deflector. Took inspiration from the FEC and had it colllected and piped out the bottom.

20170106_125010_resized.jpg Started to fabricate the frame and mount the smoker. Moving a little slow but really only doing this on my lunch breaks right now. Also partnering with my friend who is an electrical engineer to use a raspberry pi computer to be a custom controller for the smoker with wi...

Do you have a model number that works well with a traeger hardware?

On a personal note next time I will either get a much better sandblaster or just don't bother trying to save the original chamber.

I remember how much I hate trying to clean this thing out

I would watch it for what not to do I am sure. My metal and welding skills leave much to be desired. I do have one question concerning the controller. The current unit is the digital controller but it doesn't look in great condition. Would it be worthwhile to swap it out for a more advanced controll...

Done cutting.... Now time to clean up the metal and start fabricating the new body.

Funny part is that growing up and again now I still buy I'm beef and pig by the half. When we were kids it was a weekend family activity to go butcher the cow.

Having some fun with this winter project though. Have to do something it's below -35 Celsius here

No going back now. Just onward

Got all the components out and I am ready to start cutting.

Smoker is in the truck ready to go to the shop.

That is interesting. So really it would be better to have a higher stack and maybe use a butterfly valve to control the flow from the smoker. Right now if I want more smoke I do use one of those smoking tubes they seem to do alright but it is hard to control because the current smoker leaks from eve...

Thanks for the advice I will raise the stack outlet above the cabinet.

Yes that was what I was thinking. I have seen that several times and it seems to make sense to try and get the smoke and hot air to move from left to right.

I have my basic model done. Using 1" x 1" HSS frame built around the bottom half of the Traeger. Single panel front door and I made the racks offset from the smoker wall to allow the air to circulate around. Right now I have the stack coming out halfway up the chamber. smoker front 1.JPG Basic Model...

Thanks I will do that

Good Day, I am currently the owner of a used Traeger bull smoker and I am looking to sacrifice it and convert it into a small insulated cabinet smoker measuring 20" deep, 24" long and around 36" tall. When doing early concepts I found myself wandering through the various smokers and I did notice the...

Hello all, My name is Sean and I am engineer from Saskatchewan Canada and I have been smoking using a old Traeger Bull Smoker. Besides being in rough shape and my wife hates it I have always planned on salvaging the parts from it to build myself a new cabinet pellet smoker. I found this forum lookin...