Jason Beach
TVWBB Member
After reading so many inspiring posts on this forum, I put together a plan to build my own.
I finally finished this a couple days ago. Overall, I'm very pleased with how it turned out.
I had to order the pot online from Walmart, as the ones on the shelf were not the Vasconia brand and didn't have the black handles. ( I really wanted the black handles! ) After reading some current posts about the Vasconia from Walmart, I guess I lucked out and paid under $21 out the door.
I settled on using a 12”x2” cake pan, to hopefully catch most of the drippings and make clean-up a bit easier.
Using a jig saw, I cut the tabs to make them 2.5” tall, so the cake pan sits ½” above the pot bottom. I will probably install stainless “L” brackets at some point, as I don’t see the thin aluminum holding up to consistent use.
Lookin pretty good to me…
Bottom grate resting on the steamer level position.
I measured and marked a piece of string to get three, evenly spaced holes, to install the hardware for the top grate.
Installed hardware.
Everything done for the interior.
I used a 9” pie pan for the ash catcher.
I had to wait a few weeks for this to arrive from Weber.
Finished!
Unfortunately, I didn't get pics of the painting process. I masked off everything that I didn't want painted black (including the inside haha! ) and used hi-temp gloss black.
A few days after getting it all put together, I had the time to fire it up and test it out. I was just burning charcoal this time, to get a feel for how it would work. The paint held up just fine to the heat, and it smelled like a real smoker after I was done, yahoo!
I finally finished this a couple days ago. Overall, I'm very pleased with how it turned out.
I had to order the pot online from Walmart, as the ones on the shelf were not the Vasconia brand and didn't have the black handles. ( I really wanted the black handles! ) After reading some current posts about the Vasconia from Walmart, I guess I lucked out and paid under $21 out the door.
I settled on using a 12”x2” cake pan, to hopefully catch most of the drippings and make clean-up a bit easier.
Using a jig saw, I cut the tabs to make them 2.5” tall, so the cake pan sits ½” above the pot bottom. I will probably install stainless “L” brackets at some point, as I don’t see the thin aluminum holding up to consistent use.
Lookin pretty good to me…
Bottom grate resting on the steamer level position.
I measured and marked a piece of string to get three, evenly spaced holes, to install the hardware for the top grate.
Installed hardware.
Everything done for the interior.
I used a 9” pie pan for the ash catcher.
I had to wait a few weeks for this to arrive from Weber.
Finished!
Unfortunately, I didn't get pics of the painting process. I masked off everything that I didn't want painted black (including the inside haha! ) and used hi-temp gloss black.
A few days after getting it all put together, I had the time to fire it up and test it out. I was just burning charcoal this time, to get a feel for how it would work. The paint held up just fine to the heat, and it smelled like a real smoker after I was done, yahoo!
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