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Smokeware Calibration

RajunCajun
RajunCajun Posts: 1,048
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I have the Smokeware thermos with the black face.  Is that unit "calibrateable"?

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  • stlcharcoal
    stlcharcoal Posts: 4,724
    If there's a hex head on the back, then yes.  They've changed manufacturers a few times, but everything I've gotten from them for the last 2 yrs have all been adjustable.
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  • RajunCajun
    RajunCajun Posts: 1,048
    Cool, thanks for the response.  It does have a nut on the backside.  Didn't want to crank on something not intended to be cranked on, ya know.  
    The problem with a problem is that you don't know it's a problem until it's a problem, and that is a big problem.
    Holding the company together with three spreadsheets and two cans connected by a long piece of string.
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  • The_Stache
    The_Stache Posts: 1,153
    RajunCajun said:
    Cool, thanks for the response.  It does have a nut on the backside.  Didn't want to crank on something not intended to be cranked on, ya know.  
    You'll know if that Smokeware thermometer will calibrate.  Some of the early thermometers had nuts on the back.  Unfortunately, it will not turn. 

    I had this issue and talked with the Smokeware folks and they sent me a new adjustable temp gauge.  Smokeware did the same for a friend of mine who had the same issue of adjustability.


    Kirkland, TN
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  • northGAcock
    northGAcock Posts: 15,172
    The_Stache said:
    RajunCajun said:
    Cool, thanks for the response.  It does have a nut on the backside.  Didn't want to crank on something not intended to be cranked on, ya know.  
    You'll know if that Smokeware thermometer will calibrate.  Some of the early thermometers had nuts on the back.  Unfortunately, it will not turn. 

    I had this issue and talked with the Smokeware folks and they sent me a new adjustable temp gauge.  Smokeware did the same for a friend of mine who had the same issue of adjustability.


    Your nuts were in the back?
    Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax

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    Run me out in the cold rain and snow
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  • Possumtrot
    Possumtrot Posts: 245
    northGAcock said:
    The_Stache said:
    RajunCajun said:
    Cool, thanks for the response.  It does have a nut on the backside.  Didn't want to crank on something not intended to be cranked on, ya know.  
    You'll know if that Smokeware thermometer will calibrate.  Some of the early thermometers had nuts on the back.  Unfortunately, it will not turn. 

    I had this issue and talked with the Smokeware folks and they sent me a new adjustable temp gauge.  Smokeware did the same for a friend of mine who had the same issue of adjustability.


    Your nuts were in the back?
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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,379
    Smokeware  is easy to work with.
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  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,835
    northGAcock said:
    The_Stache said:
    RajunCajun said:
    Cool, thanks for the response.  It does have a nut on the backside.  Didn't want to crank on something not intended to be cranked on, ya know.  
    You'll know if that Smokeware thermometer will calibrate.  Some of the early thermometers had nuts on the back.  Unfortunately, it will not turn. 

    I had this issue and talked with the Smokeware folks and they sent me a new adjustable temp gauge.  Smokeware did the same for a friend of mine who had the same issue of adjustability.


    Your nuts were in the back?
    "Either that's the worse case of hemorrhoids or............."
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 20,922
    edited May 2018
    Smokeware offers 2 versions.  An adjustable one and a non-adjustable one.  Nuts are universal to both (was at least true in 2016). If your numbers are between the hash marks and the center of the dial it is adjustable.  If they are between the outer edge and the hash marks it is not adjustable.The nut thickness is also different between the two, adjustable has a thicker nut.

    Truthfully, no thermos for the egg are calibrateable.  You can just reset the zero.

    With that said, I prefer the non-calibrateable ones.  I have a few of each.  I have purposefully abused them.  Going nuclear, then dropping in the snow, then back in the Egg.  They are still going strong.

    Also, Smokeware stands behind their products 110%.  They are a stand-up company.

    Don't tell your problems to people.  80% of people don't care and 20% are glad you have them.


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  • abpgwolf
    abpgwolf Posts: 564
    YEMTrey said:
    northGAcock said:
    The_Stache said:
    RajunCajun said:
    Cool, thanks for the response.  It does have a nut on the backside.  Didn't want to crank on something not intended to be cranked on, ya know.  
    You'll know if that Smokeware thermometer will calibrate.  Some of the early thermometers had nuts on the back.  Unfortunately, it will not turn. 

    I had this issue and talked with the Smokeware folks and they sent me a new adjustable temp gauge.  Smokeware did the same for a friend of mine who had the same issue of adjustability.


    Your nuts were in the back?
    "Either that's the worse case of hemorrhoids or............."
    That explains why he walks like that...

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