indoor smoking

car54 · December 28, 2004, 09:38:42 PM

It would be very convenient to set up the smoker in the basement with some type of hood that is vented outside. One idea is is to run a low rpm fan when the door is closed and increase the rpm when the door is open. I know at least 1 of you have expereience in temporary indoor smoking. How much smoke did excape from your hood. Does any one else have any experience or ideas.

Thanks, Brad(car54)

Oldman · December 28, 2004, 11:17:52 PM

When I got my BS it was raining, so I broke it in using a flexable drier vent hose... no problems.

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MallardWacker · December 29, 2004, 04:37:15 PM

Brad,

I have always thought a "CHEAP" stove top fan hood would work and just run a flex vent out. That would probably exhaust any extra type spurious fumes/smells out. Some of those fans get pretty cheep if you look around.

SmokeOn,

mski
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car54 · January 02, 2005, 03:04:43 PM

Yesterday I made a temporary enclosure with a fan that was exhausted outside and I tried a test smoke. It worked except the fan housing had holes in it that allowed some smoke to escape. I was going to make an improved permanent case but because there was some smoke in the basement, the wife put a HALT to it. It would have been fun.

Habanero Smoker · January 02, 2005, 03:38:53 PM

Didn't Owrstrich set up his smoker in a hotel room. He posted pictures of his setup, but I couldn't find that thread. He found a way to smoke indoors.

nsxbill · January 02, 2005, 03:47:33 PM

Here is the thread from owstrich

http://forum.bradleysmoker.co.uk/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=433&SearchTerms=window

When there is a will there is a way!

Bill

Chez Bubba · January 03, 2005, 02:19:39 AM

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Ya think next time I check into a hotel & they ask "Smoking or Non?" they would mind?

owrstrich · January 08, 2005, 07:41:42 PM

hotel rooms usually have two smoke detectors... 1 is for room only... 1 for for whole hotel... it aint no fun evacuating at 3am because some snip beatch burned the popcorn after tricking all night... i needed to avoid setting off the alarm at all cost...

when i made the 1st generation hood i thought the smoke would just go out the window... it didnt... the room filled up with smoke... since then i used a various fans and hoses...

i think the most important thing is not to allow a fan to pull the smoke anf the heat out of the bs... so i use a box (20" box fan box) that sits on top on the bs with one side open to relieve suction...

i use a 8" flex duct attached on the top of the box... i leave the back side of the box open and a hole in the bottom a little larger than the bs vent...

i use a 20" box fan to pull the smoke thru the flex duct... the duct is attached to 1/4 of the fan simply by fan suction... i put the duct in a hole in a plastic supermarket bag and let the fan suck the bag against the fan... the other 3/4s of the fan ventilate the room of any odor...

absolutely no smoke escapes into the room...

i do this out of necessity... its the only way i can enjoy the baradley on the road...

i was thinking about assembling kits and sell them on ebay... but all you would get for $50 would be a 20" box fan with 2 8" holes cut in its box and a 8" flex duct in a plastic supermarket bag with a 8" hole in it...

more later...

owrstrich

Habanero Smoker · January 09, 2005, 10:14:15 AM

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by owrstrich
 i was thinking about assembling kits and sell them on ebay... but all you would get for $50 would be a 20" box fan with 2 8" holes cut in its box and a 8" flex duct in a plastic supermarket bag with a 8" hole in it...

more later...

owrstrich

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If you don't do it, someone else will. It's a matter of design and packaging. It could probably be made out of heat resistant plastic, with a much smaller fan.

Oldman · January 09, 2005, 05:00:14 PM

Now that we have been kicking around ideas I will throw out to you all. Due to the fact that almost every afternoon in the summer it rains here I've been thinking of putting in a clothes dry type of vent up high and through the garage wall. The vent flaps on it would be adjustable from the inside of the garage. For a fan it would be a type almost like one that exhaust the heat from a computer, but much stronger. It would have a variable speed control. I would mount a permanent collar on top of the Bradley that is larger then the vent. The piece that mounted to that collar would screw or clamp on. Through the center of it there would be a six inch drier tube. At that point it would only be a matter of hooking up a flex drier hose to it. Open the outside vent, turn on the fan, smoke on~~!

Well not quite. There would be a learning curve as the fan speed would have to be adjusted based on that day's conditions. The air flow would have to be strong enough to stop any back-drafts. Next, leaching of the heat and smoke of the unit would have to be controlled.

To control this leaching I would drill two holes through the sides of the mounted collar. These holes would be across from each other. Then I would run stainless steel wire the same size as the holes through the holes I drilled and attached them to the vent so it could be adjusted to stop any leaching.

This would mean the vent top would not be as opened as I would normally have it. This also means the fan would be ripping air around it as it would be moving more air than I allowed to come out of the Bradley. To put this into perspective I view the fan as a check-valve against back drafts.

Of course you would have also adjust your thinking about when to open the door to change out your water. But that is easy enough. You burn four hours of smoke. Then you open the vent up and turn the fan on to maximum speed; give it 10 minutes and there would be no smoke in the unit when you opened the door. Another reason for this idea is the unit would be in a secured location.

We have a local guy here that can make anything. Tell him what you want, he lays it out, then you go over the drawing. He makes everything out of stainless steal. You just will not believe some of the innovate items he has created for my industry here locally. I think I will let him do this. If anyone can make a custom professional unit it is him.

Maybe this will be Chez's next addon item... J/K of course.
Olds

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Habanero Smoker · January 09, 2005, 10:07:08 PM

I would be interested in the outcome of your project. My brother is thinking of buying a BS, and wants to hook it up in his garage. We were going to hook up a range exhaust fan with a rheostat to control the fan speed, but we did not consider the possibility of a back draft.

jigsup · January 10, 2005, 09:22:57 PM

I made my own smoker using the bradley smoke generator. I used a smaller refrigerator, and it works great. The only problem is that it is too big to move outside easily. I went down to the local Habitat for Humanity surplus store and bought a stove exhaust fan for $10. I hung it above the smoker, and ran dryer duct out the window. The fan has a variable speed, so by adjusting the speed and positioning the smoker under the fan it works great. I do get some residual smoke in the shop when opening the door of the smoker but, am able to work in the shop while smoking. It works for me, might be worth a try.
jigsup