My home made Smokenator

[iamdan]

Hi everyone I am new to the board but wanted to share my home made smokenator (well made it at work actually).  After selling my BGE and moving back to a kettle I wanted to still have the ability to do butts and ribs etc. so after seeing reviews on the Smokenator I decided to make my own to save bucks and to see if it would really work.  I did not have the ability to bend the heavier gauge stainless steel we had a work but luckily I had found a pic of someone that did a 2 pieced interlocking tab design so I went that route.  Generated the drawing on our Cad software and first mocked it using paper board then finally milled it out on our Gerber.  Turned out sweet and worked great.  Cooked up a 5LB butt in 9 hours and it was great.  I guess you really can do it all with a Weber!!

[Winz]

Beautiful!  That is some fine work.

Welcome to the WKC.

Winz

[addicted-to-smoke]

Hi @iamdan,

Sounds interesting. Pls re-verify your image addresses. They aren't showing here now?

[iamdan]

Okay I think I fixed the images now, sorry about that.

[crumbsnatcher]

You selling those?


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[f2benny]

Why not make ss tables for performers?  I'd take one.

[weirleigh]

Looks great, wish I had access to a milling machine like that something tells me this is not the last item you will be making for your kettle

[iamdan]

Thanks for the compliments everyone, I am going to try and have the design plasma or flow-jet cut to eliminate the hand clean-up I had to do on this one.  The idea of a SS performer table like f2benny says has already crossed my mind, I saw how the 2015 tables are metal but a stainless version would be sweet, I may have to give that a shot.

[f2benny]

Please do!