My first chance to see this in action is tomorrow!! It's supposed to rain again and I'm doing up some wings for the gang. Figured I had better put something together to help eliminate the smoke from the garage so here's what I put together today:
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I bought a $19 dollar bathroom exhaust fan, and a $6 flexible pipe. The rest of the materials I already had in the garage, including a plastic dryer vent that I found under the bench!
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I think it should work out ok.
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Easy to remove when not needed.
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The chains will allow me to raise and lower the thing as required.
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WP_000197 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtfreymann/6198980582/) by gtfreymann (http://www.flickr.com/people/gtfreymann/), on Flickr
I'll let you know how it goes!!
That Works!
That will work great.
I did the same thing with a fart sucker just took it a little farther.
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Even got one of these thingies out side.
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Year round smoking dont get any better.
That will work, let us see some action shots when you fire it up...
Pretty cool stuff. Can't wait to see it in action.
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Thanks guys! I'll get some more pics with the real camera when it's cooking tomorrow. Used my cell phone today.
Quote from: OU812 on September 30, 2011, 02:38:11 PM
That will work great.
I did the same thing with a fart sucker just took it a little farther.
Year round smoking dont get any better.
Never heard that phrase before! LMAO!
But that is excellent. If I was more creative I would have loved to do exactly what you have done, but for now I'll try my version 1.0 and perhaps later I'll upgrade to a version 2.0? ;-)
Nice looking set up. Just thinking that you might get some smoke roll out being that you don't have an "edge". If you do get some roll out you can add an edge of 1X or even take some aluminum foil and staple it to the edges to give you more of a cooking hood effect. Lowering the chain may be all you need if there is not too much of an air movement going across the top. I will be interested to see the smoke being sucked up the fart fan. ;D
Quote from: Sailor on September 30, 2011, 03:49:30 PM
Nice looking set up. Just thinking that you might get some smoke roll out being that you don't have an "edge". If you do get some roll out you can add an edge of 1X or even take some aluminum foil and staple it to the edges to give you more of a cooking hood effect. Lowering the chain may be all you need if there is not too much of an air movement going across the top. I will be interested to see the smoke being sucked up the fart fan. ;D
Yes, I had thought of adding an edge around it but ran out of time. I like the idea of stapling on some foil wrap in the meantime though.
I will watch for smoke roll out, and if that's a problem (I can see that it would be) I'll tack on some foil wrap and see what happens.
Thanks for the idea!
looks pretty good I would start with the foil edging. Unless your like me I just let the smoke roll and enjoy the hickory smell for a couple of weeks after the smoke is over
I was just thinking about that not more than 20 minutes ago as I was sitting in my man cave!!!! (http://mysite.verizon.net/vze11gpul/Smilies/crazy.gif)
I am thinking about putting a smoke stack kinda thing on the roof so I don't smoke up my siding. Then just pipe it from the smoker up to the roof exhaust.
24x7 365 days a year smoking potential. Awesome! (http://mysite.verizon.net/vze11gpul/Smilies/cheers.gif)
looking great
The possibilities are end less.
I Came up with mine wile cleaning up after installin a new HVAC in the house and trying to figure what to do with the extra crap. ::)
Evin made a cold smoke set up with the extra crap.
Hope there's a winch to hoist it up and down with the chains :D
A hunk of 8 inch duct just sitting on top of the smoker would help channel the smoke up to the exhaust fan.
Don't open the door too often!
Quote from: ArnieM on September 30, 2011, 09:45:17 PM
Hope there's a winch to hoist it up and down with the chains :D
A hunk of 8 inch duct just sitting on top of the smoker would help channel the smoke up to the exhaust fan.
Don't open the door too often!
Naw, it's pretty easy to adjust the height. The hard part was getting it on the chains to start with, but even that wasn't too difficult.
I could put a hunk of 8 inch duct on the top, but then I wouldn't be able to see my digital remote thermometer! LOL
I never open the door to the smoker unless there's something to be done with the food inside.
Jerry
Here's a picture of the piece of PVC I used to direct the smoke to the centre of the fan. On fans with a regular blade they tend to have the greatest suction in the centre of the fan. The outside of the blades will tend to stir the smoke. I found using 4 inch concentrated the smoke to the centre of the fan. Also, notch the bottom like in the photo so that you don't suck the heat out of the smoker.
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Are we smoking yet?
What do we want?
All together now......"We want photos" ;D
Well, the pictures don't really show the smoke going out, but I can say, after adding foil around the 3 edges, it worked great!!! and the wings were delicious. I did take a few pictures but will add later.
Ok, here's a look at the outside exhaust.
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It was smelling pretty good on that side on the garage! LOL
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You can just see the smoke being sucked up here:
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smoker 004 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtfreymann/6203334089/) by gtfreymann (http://www.flickr.com/people/gtfreymann/), on Flickr
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smoker 003 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtfreymann/6203849562/) by gtfreymann (http://www.flickr.com/people/gtfreymann/), on Flickr
I have a neighbour who is going to bend me some sophet to go around here in place of the foil:
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smoker 002 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtfreymann/6203849010/) by gtfreymann (http://www.flickr.com/people/gtfreymann/), on Flickr
actually, he said he can bend me a nice looking exhaust intake too.
This was a good view outside.
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smoker 001 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/gtfreymann/6203332571/) by gtfreymann (http://www.flickr.com/people/gtfreymann/), on Flickr
I should have taken a picture of the finished wings -- they were excellent!!!
Nice set up! Looking at one of those pics, it looks like you smoked your ET-73 pretty good too! Personally I hang that unit on my puck feeder tube to keep it from getting all gunked up.
Nice job on the set up.
Here's a post I did a while back for a magnetic bracket that I made for the Maverick.
http://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php?topic=6893.msg68009#msg68009
Mike