What not to use your WSM for!

[Ron Fisher]

I committed an egregious act of violence against my WSM last weekend. After cooking a great 10lb port shoulder we found ourselves needing a legal campfire pit. We've had a burn ban on for over a month so i didn't want to risk up to a $14k fine just to have a fire at our big party. The beer was flowing and the mind was numbed... It really did make a nice burn barrel.. until the door knob melted along with all my door gasket and top gasket. I also lost all my "seasoning". Seems I have to buy the whole door assembly to just get a new knob. All in all not a lot of money but losing my seasoning will probably be the hardest thing to get back on.

Life goes on!

 

[Len Dennis]

good to know. But after a couple 'o smokes, it'll be as good as new errr used!

 

[Robert-R]

I will not use mine to generate steam powered electricity.
Never.

 

[ChuckO]

until the door knob melted along with all my door gasket and top gasket. I also lost all my "seasoning". Seems I have to buy the whole door assembly to just get a new knob. All in all not a lot of money but losing my seasoning will probably be the hardest thing to get back on.

Bah humbug. I melted my knob off long ago. Door knobs are over rated

 

[Ron Fisher]

What do you have in its place Chuck? I'd rather not buy the whole damn thing just for a knob either.

 

[JLHillman]

Scrape down the sides, get a new door. I had a runaway fire from residual fat, damn thing looked like a flame thrower. No damage but the inside had to be brushed, washed and re seasoned. All of the seasoning had burned and was flacking off. It was a mess.

 

[ChuckO]

What do you have in its place Chuck? I'd rather not buy the whole damn thing just for a knob either.

I just found a bolt and a couple washers. I put the nut on the outside in the unlikely event I need to open the door, but for most my cooks, the door is either fully on and close or fully off

I did try to drill the handle all the way through so that I could run a skinny bolt through the handle and maintain using it as intended, but the handle cracked. Probably as a result of so many high heat cooks I put my WSM through

 

[Clifford.Hubbard]

you can get a new knob from mcmaster carr

 

[Enrico Brandizzi]

Sad hearing all your seasoning has flown away!

 

[Ron Fisher]

you can get a new knob from mcmaster carr

Do you happen to know the part number on that site or just look for something close? 555,000 parts, yikes! http://www.mcmaster.com/#

 

[Chris Allingham]

Here's the McMaster part that some have used: http://www.mcmaster.com/#1619a34 Many more have used this larger one from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002DHHDEY/tvwb-20

More details: http://tvwbb.com/showthread.php?45886-Fixed-door-handle-replaced-with-compression-latch

 

[Ron Fisher]

Thanks Chris, they look similar and both are metal.. burn barrel here I come! ;-)

 

[TonyUK]

Could use one of these Ron. I did, works great!

http://www.mcmaster.com/#cam-latches/=ydz76p

 

[Ron Fisher]

I used the http://www.mcmaster.com/#1619a34. I had to monkey around quite a bit with getting the compression lock to fit properly. That damn stock door is made out of Aluminum butter, what a POS. Thanks for the tips!