Don Hilliard
TVWBB Fan
I'm building a smoker out of a bunch of old slightly damaged Kettle parts. I'm using a rotisserie ring to hold a second cooking rack. I have a Billows fan that will be installed using a stainless bowl mounted over a 1" hole drilled in the bottom, also drilled a 1 1/4 hole above the cooking grate for a thermometer probe grommet. I've sealed the extra holes in the ring with aluminum tape. I'm not sure if I need use a gasket kit to seal between the ring and base and the lid and ring. Once complete I'll be doing a test burn to decide that. Now I need some kind of heat deflector/diffuser, but I not sure what do do there yet, anyone have an idea for that? I've seen several on Amazon, but I want to use as much of bottom cooking grate a possible. I don't want an SnS. I'll post some pics later.