PK360 temp probe wire channel?

I received my new PK 360 Friday and fired it up yesterday for the first time. It is a great grill and there's no "buyers remorse" here. It is even better than I expected.

For my first cook, I used a temperature probe at the grill grate level. I ran the cable though one of the top vents and tied it to the grate. I am not fond of that solution at all.

I am thinking I would rather have a small channel between the lid and the bottom to run a cable or two into the grill.

I thought about grinding a small channel at one of the handle reinforcements on the bottom shell. The shell is quite thick in that area and I think it could easily tolerate a small channel for the cables to lay in.

Looking for what other PK owners have done to solve this issue.

70monte said:

There is a guy on YT that did the same thing you are talking about. Here is the video and you can see it at the 43 second mark of the video. It's on the left side of the grill about in the middle of the lower capsule. He also makes mention of it down in the comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXM4U65HiU

I personally have not done that to either of mine. I just go down through the top vent.

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Thanks, found it. He filed a slot in it. Looks like a possible solution.

Here's a snippet from his YouTube.