A Few Mods for My Offset

I've been really enjoying playing this little guy since the beginning of summer after discovering the suggested mods for offsets on here and amazingribs.com. I bought it in '04 from Walmart or Kmart for about $160. I quickly gave it to my son when I discovered Traeger in '06. Anyway somehow it came up missing a brace for the legs so I wanted to fix that.



I bought some angle and some expanded metal and made the bottom shelf.



I had some expanded metal left over so I made another charcoal grate



I wanted to put the thermometers in a more useful place so I shortened the handle and used the old holes for putting two bi-metals



It already has the deflector plate and the flue was mounted at the grate level from the factory. Next it'll get a new paint job and the charcoal basket will get angle iron corners and will be enlarged to 14"x12".

Garrett said:

That should make some fine Q. You'll have fun learning how it cooks.

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It's been fun learning so far. Still got a ways to go. I printed out 5 copies of Meathead's BBQ diary. I think i have a system for keeping the fire stocked. Still trying different types of fuel. So far lump with wood chunks is the easiest way to go.