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Originally Posted by sandiegobbq
After going through maybe a hundred or so pages of this thread I wonder if the ball valve is really necessary?
I owned several WSMs and they didn't have those.
Why not have 4 to six vent holes and just use cork as plugs?
Is the ball valve really a big asset to this design?
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In this case the important thing to have is a flexible design that allows infinite control of air flow. Plugging an entire hole to reduce temps may be too much. With a ball valve or magnet you can do really small adjustments to dial in temps. It just depends on how much you want to control those temps. For most things it probably doesn't matter as long as you are in the ballpark so corks may be the ticket!
I went with a ball valve so I didn't have to bend over all the time to adjust the intake. What can I say? I'm lazy like that!
