Electric Smoker OR Landfill: What say you?
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Chef Done the build on the “Sausage Maker” combination temperature and humidity controller setup before. Getting hard to find metal lined refers to convert these days. Sausage Maker, Pricey but reliable. I will be in their Buffalo NY store in a few days. Will send pics and specs if you want. They do sell all the parts for the build as needed. Cheers
JoeB said in Electric Smoker OR Landfill: What say you?:
Chef Done the build on the “Sausage Maker” combination temperature and humidity controller setup before. Getting hard to find metal lined refers to convert these days. Sausage Maker, Pricey but reliable. I will be in their Buffalo NY store in a few days. Will send pics and specs if you want. They do sell all the parts for the build as needed. Cheers
I would be interested in seeing what they offer too. Thanks for offering pics and specs.
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JoeB Yes, please send pictures. I’ll be lining with sheet aluminum whatever unit I use.
Thanks
Chef Please to share your proposed method to line a refer with aluminum. What are you using to seal the vertical and horizonal meeting Planes?
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Just a short progress report. The original plastic shelves on the door are gone and replaced with sheet metal. I used aluminum trim coil that I cut and fit to the same dimensions as the plastic shelf. The trim coil was not wide enough to do with a single piece of material so I cut two pieces that overlap and used contact cement to attach them together. You have to look hard to see the joint.
I hung the door back on the cabinet to convince myself I am making progress. lol
Paul
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A lot of good work their
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Just a short progress report. The original plastic shelves on the door are gone and replaced with sheet metal. I used aluminum trim coil that I cut and fit to the same dimensions as the plastic shelf. The trim coil was not wide enough to do with a single piece of material so I cut two pieces that overlap and used contact cement to attach them together. You have to look hard to see the joint.
I hung the door back on the cabinet to convince myself I am making progress. lolprocesshead Thanks for the update! Like many others here, I’m watching this build intently.
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Just a short progress report. The original plastic shelves on the door are gone and replaced with sheet metal. I used aluminum trim coil that I cut and fit to the same dimensions as the plastic shelf. The trim coil was not wide enough to do with a single piece of material so I cut two pieces that overlap and used contact cement to attach them together. You have to look hard to see the joint.
I hung the door back on the cabinet to convince myself I am making progress. lolprocesshead thanks again for an update on the progress.
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Just a short progress report. The original plastic shelves on the door are gone and replaced with sheet metal. I used aluminum trim coil that I cut and fit to the same dimensions as the plastic shelf. The trim coil was not wide enough to do with a single piece of material so I cut two pieces that overlap and used contact cement to attach them together. You have to look hard to see the joint.
I hung the door back on the cabinet to convince myself I am making progress. lolprocesshead it’s looking good man.
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Making great progress keep going
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Just a short progress report. The original plastic shelves on the door are gone and replaced with sheet metal. I used aluminum trim coil that I cut and fit to the same dimensions as the plastic shelf. The trim coil was not wide enough to do with a single piece of material so I cut two pieces that overlap and used contact cement to attach them together. You have to look hard to see the joint.
I hung the door back on the cabinet to convince myself I am making progress. lolprocesshead looks great. Thanks for updating us.
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If it still cools then a curing chamber would be my other thought, but you’ll need a lot more stuff to do that! My first attempt at a curing chamber is at the dump or maybe now part of a Chinese-made toy. The humidity control is a pain especially for us in the south…
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Pivodog said in Electric Smoker OR Landfill: What say you?:
Smoker!! Is it all metal inside?
Metal insides. I replaced the plastic shelf on the door with a flat metal panel.
There is some plastic trim pieces that are going to be removed/replaced as well. -
samspade said in Electric Smoker OR Landfill: What say you?:
Making great progress keep going
Thanks for the encouragement!
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Pivodog said in Electric Smoker OR Landfill: What say you?:
Paul, you could also add an external smokebox so that it could used as a cold smoker.
At this point my plans are to use an A-mazing pellet smoke generator in an external metal enclosure.
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Pivodog said in Electric Smoker OR Landfill: What say you?:
do you have a pic of the smoke generator?
.I will fabricate a box underneath and put the A-mazing pellet unit inside
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I will jump around a bit on the building of the smoker. Sorry if it makes the thread a bit harder to follow, but it keeps it interesting for me.
Here are the basic building blocks I purchased for the smoker heat controls.
Pictured are: 1) a weather resistant enclosure which will get mounted on the door. I wanted a some protection for the electrical components since the smoker will likely be used outdoors and could be exposed to the elements during a smoking session.
2) a solid state relay or SSR. This component actually switches the power on and off to the heating element . It receives a control signal from the PID controller and turns the SSR on and off.
3) An Inkbird PID controller and mounting bracket, which is a type of precision digital thermostat. Unlike a normal thermostat that cycles on and off very slowly, a PID controller switches the heating element on and off rapidly to regulate the temperature very precisely to minimize the temperature swings you can see with a regular thermostat.
4) A thermocouple probe which is a remote temperature sensor that will be mounted inside the chamber and sends a temperature signal back to the Inkbird PID controller.I will eventually post an as-build wiring diagram once everything is assembled.
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And because everyone likes to see things that light up and flash, here is what the control display on the PID looks like when its powered up. The thermocouple temperature sensor is connected to the PID, so the display is just reading the ambient air temperature at the moment. That is the number labeled PV, which is geek-speak for process variable.
After the thermocouple is mounted inside the smoker cabinet, it tell the PID what the chamber temperature is so the PID can control the heating element.
The value labeled SV is the user adjustable setting that sets the desired temperature we want to bring the smoker up to.
Paul
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And because everyone likes to see things that light up and flash, here is what the control display on the PID looks like when its powered up. The thermocouple temperature sensor is connected to the PID, so the display is just reading the ambient air temperature at the moment. That is the number labeled PV, which is geek-speak for process variable.
After the thermocouple is mounted inside the smoker cabinet, it tell the PID what the chamber temperature is so the PID can control the heating element.
The value labeled SV is the user adjustable setting that sets the desired temperature we want to bring the smoker up to.
processhead this is an amazing post. Thank you sir for taking the time to explain things so well.
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