FE100 seal

My FE100 never had a seal to begin with. Just run your unit without it, you will be fine. Little smoker comes out between the door and the unit but it is a smoker.

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Originally posted by duck:
My FE100 never had a seal to begin with. Just run your unit without it, you will be fine. Little smoker comes out between the door and the unit but it is a smoker.

Can't do that if the unit was built for a seal, when you take it off, there will be a gap. Which means the gap would be the size of the seal that's missing and that's a BIG gap IF you took the whole thing off.

Nope, no replacement that I know of, as it's hi temp gasket. You can probably run it fine, it will just leak smoke. No biggie.

Thanks for the quick replies. Ciderhouse BBQ out of Vancouver has loaned me his pit for the day. I have 3 seals on order as we speak. I am sure this will probably happen again in the future.

I think I like my older FE100 even better. No seals to worry about (don't have any), have had the controller modified so I have a 225 setting, no problem hitting high temps when needed, no high temp limit.

I was thinking about getting rid of it and getting a new fancy one with the new controller but I think I will let the old dirty one stick around a while longer.

I kind of like the fact that mine is one of the older ones without a seal. I never understood why so many of the owners of the no seal models worried so much about the leaks, the thing has a five inch whole in the side of it so a little leak around the door did not seem to matter much. Mine works fine without a seal.