lid hanger for wsm


 
Frank H

Frank H

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i see that some people do this with the lid....i tried this one day , but it didnt strike me as very secure. the handle on mine seems to flex when the weight is on it....dont you worry that it will fall and bend the lid?
any good pix of other lid hanger mods? i have seen the ones on the weber bullet , but frankly , most of them are too fabrication heavy. i need something simple....like me !:D

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There was a post in this same forum where a person took a 90 degree small bracket and mounted it in the lid. It allowed a bit of it to catch on the WSM so it would hang like a OTG. It means 2 more holes in the lid but would keep down on damage to the lid edges laying it flat or falling off hanging like in your pic.
I don`t take mine off much while in the middle of a smoke anyways. I found the easiest thing was to save a large piece of cardboard about the size of the lid and keep it by the smoker when using it. I can just take the lid off and lay it on the cardboard to protect the edges the few times I take it off.

The person who did the hangar was Chad Bman and he has a good write up on it here:
http://tvwbb.com/showthread.php?37348-The-typical-mods-plus-a-few-I-haven-t-seen-done&p=373960&viewfull=1#post373960
 
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When I take the lid off I place it in a water heater pan. Like Mike -- it doesn't stay off for but a couple seconds. I have a slit cut in the mid section so I remove the grate, meat, temp probes and all, place the grate on a work table and get the lid back on. When done doing what ever I am doing to the meat, I remove the lid again, replace the grate and sweep the temp probe wires into the slot and get the lid back on. That way I don't experience temp spikes.
 
I went to auto zone and bought an oil drip tray you place under car to change oil. It's probably 4 feet long and 2 feet wide. Cost me about 5.00. I put smoker on one side of it and if I need to remove lid to spritz or check temps etc. I put lid down on other half of tray. It also protects my wooden deck from smoker spills, ash, or heat. Just don't light chimney starter on it. It will scortch!
 
I also use an oil drip pan, but sometimes I set it on top of my charcoal starter (which is usually sitting on the drip pan) which keeps the edges of the lid from getting dirty before I set it back on.
 
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