Adjustments while hot...

CornfedMA

Any concern with making adjustments while the egg is hot? I lifted my dome to baste my Mad Max bird, and my top gasket just stayed laying right there on the base. No biggie. I closed the dome and had several decent leaks though. So I grabbed a couple wrenches and readjusted the dome to stop the leaks. But that got me thinking, the bands are hot, thus a little expanded. I don't think they’ll tighten to the point of detriment when they cool, but figured someone here might have advice that would cause me to take heed. Worst case, I could just back everything off a turn or so when I shut it down for the day. So any advice or warnings out there? 

The good news is, I won’t have much surface prep to do for the new gasket...so I got that goin’ for me.

hoosier_egger

I frequently adjusted the XL when it was hot. Never had an issue.

We do the same when cooking on demo eggs where the assembler had it wonky 

lentsboy007

Stock gaskets sucks . Contact RRP and get a good bottom gasket . I’ve had zero issues since I installed a Rutland .  Many many issues with stock gasket , including egg freezing shut in winter .