Sm160

I am getting a smoker sent to Oz in a few weeks I hope it arrives in better shape! Glad they are on to sorting it out straight away that makes me feel like I am in good hands!

Sounds like UPS. I know some folks who used to work there. They try to tear stuff up on purpose just because they are bored.

Three large holes on front of box along with four smaller ones through out box....

On a brighter note I had the Fed Ex Delievery Driver stand by as I removed the box and seen the damage, had him note on the voucher the damage,he signed and added his employee number.

Dave at cookshack said they have had alot of freight chargebacks to the high volume of claims, he asked me to inspect it with the fed ed driver present.
Glad I did....

Did my first smoke today....after 4 hours of 225 heat the wood was slightly charred...I did notice after three hours of cooking the smoke stopped....

what to do about this?

Make sure the element is touching the bottom of the wood box. Gently bend in up slightly just so it makes contact.

Now that I think about it, not sure if the 160 is designed the same as my AQ. I know I had to tweek my element a bit.

Hi Wilbur,
Was able today to do some smoke'n, my element wraps around the wood box ( Both Sides ) vs bottom, however I did manage to straighten out the wood box and I have a terrific results with that.
All wood placed inside box ashed up nicely.

Glad it worked out. Good luck with your new smoker!

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Originally posted by Donnie Joe:
Hi Wilbur,
Was able today to do some smoke'n, my element wraps around the wood box ( Both Sides ) vs bottom, however I did manage to straighten out the wood box and I have a terrific results with that.
All wood placed inside box ashed up nicely.

Sounds like you got it figured out. When we load the SM160, we typically push the wood against the left side of the wood box, and when you slide in the burn box, sort of pust it left to touch the element - get's the wood smoking within minutes. Sometimes when smoking at lower temp, and wood addded after smoker already at temp, the wood can take a while to start smoking because the element isn't red hot like at 'startup'.
Rick

Rick

thats just what I did....put wood on left side and box just slightly touching element and had great results.

Donniejoe

Door came in last Tuesday, just got around to unpacking, shipped in a wooden box...
Nice,,,Nice .....Nice....

Thanks again Dave for taking care of me...