Afterwards, I attached the CB Wheel and Cylinder Lock components to the bottom bowl of the WSM. I felt that the Pellet Pro needed some support here and was too high to use the CB support legs that was included in the kit, so I had to improvise on how to get two extended legs underneath the hopper housing to support 30 # of pellets in the hopper: 1” square tubes was my thought.
Next, I went to Home Depot to buy some 1/4” dia nuts & bolts and a 36” x 1” square tube - zinc plated. Cut two lengths of 16 3/4” each and on two of the sides (that will be fastened onto the housing), I cut out half (on the diagonal) of the square tube so that I can fasten the nuts inside the hopper’s housing.
Not confident that two holes would suffice holding the PP Housing (my engineering background), I decided there was room to drill another set of holes (one on each side) to add a third set of hardware to fasten the square bar onto the housing.
Please note: since I choose to use the CB’s wheel locks, the square bar’s 16 3/4” length gave me ample room to attach bottom side leg adjusters at the bottom of the bars. Otherwise, you can can also cut the square bars at 17” each.
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