Water Pan

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My water pan, seems to be warping. My cooker gets a lot of use, and it's about 3 yrs old. But it now seems to not want to sit, in the brackets as it used to. My pan is the OEM, anybody else see this happening over a period of time?

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Just for info, do you use it dry often or at all?
The nice part is if you switch over to the brinkman pan they are only 3 or 4 dollars.
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No, I don't run with the pan empty, which would explain the bowing.
I noticed it Sunday, when I inverted the empty pan onto a flat surface, and one side of the pan lip, sits about 1/2" above the flat surface. I have never checked this before, so it's possible I bought it that way, and never paid attention to it.
One thing that it does inhibit is filling the pan full of water. Dependent upon where the bow is located when the pan sits in the cooker, it's possible that when filling the pan to the tip top, on one side, it overflows on the other side.
Making my fire, an unhappy camper. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
I have the larger ECB pan, somewhere, now to remember just where?

Jim
 
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Consider yourself very fortunate. I have a head start, since I've "almost" hit the silver anniversary.
I don't have one of those little red flags, on my car antenna yet, but it may not be far away. /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

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I ordered mine from Brinkman, they are located in Dalles, Texass, should not be to much in freight since you couldn't be more than 500 miles away.

Order an extra one or two. Nice to give to a new WSM user or if you get lazy and don't clean the one after your last cook. Just as easy to clean two at once. Same goes for the grill.
 
Brain: I found my Brinkman pan at BBQ's Galore for five bucks or so.

Jim: If your water pan is wobbly, get rid of it soon. I had an accident with my wsm that was kinda scary. I'll share it with you so you can learn a lesson and perhaps have a few laughs at my stupidity.

After a cook, wearing my leather BBQ gloves, I went to remove the 1/2 full water pan from the middle section. I ddin't have a good grip, and in a spit second it fell into the coals. The water and fat hit the still-hot coals and shot a huge volume of ash and steam up into my face. It was like a volcano went off. Fortunately I was wearing my glasses. They were coated with a thick layer of hot ash. So was the inside of the entire middle section of the wsm, and my back patio. Fortunately the meat was already in the house, or that would have been ruined. Not to mention my eyeballs. It was all over my face, in my hair, on my clothes, everywhere. Freaked my wife out when I came upstairs. She thought I had been burned. I guess I could have been had the coals been bruning at full tilt.

That's when I drove to BBQs galore and got the Brnkmann pan. It fits real snug and holds a lot of water. What a great investment.

I also learned the hard way not to mess with the water pan when there are still live coals underneath it.

Take it easy!

Henry Joe
 
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