I got my wife a Motorola Xoom tablet for Christmas and she (we) love it. We used to keep a laptop in the living room to surf the internet. But now, the tablet is our internet surfer. It's an Android-based system and I was still able to install a print app to allow me to print to our network printer ...

To prevent rusting out the bottom of the firebox, make sure to remove the ashes after every cook (after the ashes cool of course). When wood burns, it creates moisture. Moisture and steel are a good combination for rust. Also, make sure the wood is not sitting on the bottom of the firebox -- there s...

Ross, there are several of us that have built this type of smoker. I think a few of them have done the fire brick to help prevent the issues I've had. If I have to repair again, I'll probably look into that as well. And to answer your question, yes I have a draft control system (a Stoker) that uses ...

Tom, I use a Stoker on my smoker with a 5cfm fan that maintains the fire burning in the chute -- this allows me to maintain +/- 2 degrees during a cook. Due to the fan, it creates a forge affect in the chute which is why I burned through the 1/4" steel. The stainless steel hasn't shown any signs of ...

Here's a link to pictures of my smoker build. It's a clone of a Stumps gravity fed smoker. http://pix.kg/p/904201182507%3A1759639724/scl As you can see, this smoker has gone through some changes - started on pneumatic casters, then a small trailer to its current home on a 4 x 8 trailer with a roof. ...

I was smoking with pretty fresh maple wood which had a lot of moisture and the chamber with the meat has fairly thin, uninsulated metal panels with a large surface area for the moisture to condense on. That might be another cause of the additional moisture in the cook chamber -- the "green" wood th...

Thanks Chuckwagon for the "welcome" and the sooner state trivia. I didn't know I was going to get this much knowledge here already. I was just hoping to get some information on hot to make some sausage and stuff. And look what other things I've already learned :lol: Looking forward to getting to kno...