Sorry for the delay in responding.....never really thought to check this account, plus abandoned the old email that was associated with it. :o) I never realized I only published the one video. It is a computer case/power supply fan. I used it when the bottom of the firebox was covered with ash, the charcoal would not get enough oxygen to make heat, so I devised that little trick.There was little wind that day. Actually, I made another mod that has turned out to be a neat little trick. I bought a used propane turkey fryer (like the Bayou brand) and removed the burner and mounted it in my firebox. I then bought a pair of charcoal holding bins (weber brand) from Home Depot and put both my charcoal and smoker chips in the box. I don't have any worries about long smokes and dumping temps anymore plus I get the benefits of both the charcoal and the ease of the gas when smoking with chips.. lol
On these cheap smokers, they're very thin metal. I could never keep this Brinkmann stable, didn't matter if I pointed it into the wind. I ended up taking a fryer head from a turkey fryer and passing it through the air intake (used the one with stainless braided lines to protect the rubber hose) and started using it that way. I built an expanded metal basket to go over the fryer head and I purchased two weber steel trays from Home Depot, put my wood chunks in one, some charcoal in the other so I kept the same flavors. Worked well for a long time, but now that pit is rusted out, so I am in the process of converting a 120 gallon propane tank into a large pit. Daughter is getting married in a couple months and she asked me to cook the meals for the reception. It's been a fun project. I am only 2 weekends into the project and over half done.
Sorry it took so long to respond, I abandoned my old email address and never got any alerts on this video and stumbled on it. I will fix the alerting for that ID. It's a simple large metal can from either tie super sized baked beans or green beans at Wal-Mart. I cut it in half, punched a hole in the back of it for the fan, ran 4 drywall screws into it and connected it to a 12v battery. Extremely simple idea. Fan is from a computer case that runs on 12VDC. I can't believe there's over 7k views on this!
absolute brilliant, well done.
Sorry for the delay in responding.....never really thought to check this account, plus abandoned the old email that was associated with it. :o) I never realized I only published the one video. It is a computer case/power supply fan. I used it when the bottom of the firebox was covered with ash, the charcoal would not get enough oxygen to make heat, so I devised that little trick.There was little wind that day.
Actually, I made another mod that has turned out to be a neat little trick. I bought a used propane turkey fryer (like the Bayou brand) and removed the burner and mounted it in my firebox. I then bought a pair of charcoal holding bins (weber brand) from Home Depot and put both my charcoal and smoker chips in the box. I don't have any worries about long smokes and dumping temps anymore plus I get the benefits of both the charcoal and the ease of the gas when smoking with chips.. lol
Put a rheostat in-line and be able to control the speed of fan
Awesome!!
I just made one with a pid Controller.
Hey this is really cool. I have the same smoker. Where can I get a fan like that?
So do you use the fan only when there's little wind outside? I usually maneuver my smoker towards the wind to assist oxygen flow....if it's windy.
On these cheap smokers, they're very thin metal. I could never keep this Brinkmann stable, didn't matter if I pointed it into the wind. I ended up taking a fryer head from a turkey fryer and passing it through the air intake (used the one with stainless braided lines to protect the rubber hose) and started using it that way. I built an expanded metal basket to go over the fryer head and I purchased two weber steel trays from Home Depot, put my wood chunks in one, some charcoal in the other so I kept the same flavors. Worked well for a long time, but now that pit is rusted out, so I am in the process of converting a 120 gallon propane tank into a large pit. Daughter is getting married in a couple months and she asked me to cook the meals for the reception. It's been a fun project. I am only 2 weekends into the project and over half done.
How did you make that again? That is ingenious.
Sorry it took so long to respond, I abandoned my old email address and
never got any alerts on this video and stumbled on it. I will fix the
alerting for that ID.
It's a simple large metal can from either tie super sized baked beans or
green beans at Wal-Mart. I cut it in half, punched a hole in the back
of it for the fan, ran 4 drywall screws into it and connected it to a
12v battery. Extremely simple idea. Fan is from a computer case that
runs on 12VDC. I can't believe there's over 7k views on this!
That's a computer case fan...