SSmoker Modificatons: Smoking Meat, Making Sausage, Making Cheese, Making Jerky, Brewing Beer, Canning, Dehydrating

Deejay’s

Smoker Modifications

Building a Smoker-Grill Page 2

Okay we made fire now I want to separate the grill portion from the smoker portion so the fat doesn’t clog up the orifices in the burner. To do that I bought two huge commercial sized cookie sheets, cut them to fit and riveted them together.

Here are today’s additional tools:

Tools2

First I had to cut the two trays to fit together overlapping by about an inch. The edges of the trays have a thick steel rod to make them more stable. For this a used my el cheapo grinder with a metal cutting blade. I was going to use the tin snips to finish cutting the aluminum tray but this was just soooooo much easier. I just flipped the tray and finished the cut all the way across the tray.

Tray cutingTray

Next I cut a little tab out of the overlapping edge, removed the small piece of steel rod and crimped the top edge over the bottom edge using slip joint pliers.

Tabe crimp

The joint between the two trays was pretty good but I wanted it a little bit tighter so I added one more tool – the pop rivet gun and drilled 5 tiny holes and riveted the sections together.

Rivets FinishedTay

It’s surely not water proof but I’ll put heavy duty tin foil on it to make cleanup easier and that should do protect the burner from getting clogged – I hope. Coming soon ….

Click here to go to: Building a Smoker-Grill page 3

Return to the Smoking Meat Menu