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Improvements

SteveWPBFL
SteveWPBFL Posts: 1,327
edited February 2012 in EggHead Forum
How have you improved your BGE?

This morning I took my dremel tool with a little coarse sandpaper cylinder and buzzed out all of the cooling holes in the fire bowl. It improved it by getting rid of the slag-rim which ran around the i.d. at the outer surface and had a tendency to hold ash in the cooling hole. I also smoothed up the cooling hole walls a bit and shaped them slightly conical outward so that any ash entering the hole at the smallest i.d. at the inner surface would more easily fall through.

Also, while I had the dremel spinning I buzzed my name into the bottom of the Egg as well as the fire ring and fire bowl.
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    what's the "cooling hole"?

    i drilled out my small's lower vent.

    no real improvement in airflow even though it's maube 20% bigger.  in the end, i found that an unused egg (infrequent use) is the biggest impediment to getting to temp quickly.
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • Gato
    Gato Posts: 766
    Probably voided your warranty??
    Geaux Tigers!!!
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    yeah.  so what?
    hahahaha

    nbd

    also drilled extra holes in the firebox of the small
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • Gato
    Gato Posts: 766
    I guess it's no problem as long as you have dozens of eggs like yourself. I just have one. (so far) :)
    Geaux Tigers!!!
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  • Ragtop99
    Ragtop99 Posts: 1,570
    I'm considering putting notches in my lower vent cover every quarter inch so that I have a more repeatable way of setting my airflow.
    Cooking on an XL and Medium in Bethesda, MD.
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  • Gato
    Gato Posts: 766
    Ever heard of a sharpie? I guess I just haven't had mine long enoug! I could never start cutting on it.
    Geaux Tigers!!!
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,666
    Both of my Eggs are in Nests, and because my back patio isn't covered I always wheel them into/out of my garage for cooks.  The instructional video strongly cautions against moving the Egg by pulling on the lid handle, and I'm sure I'm not the only one here guilty of doing just that.
    I've been eyeing the two front legs of the nests, with that neat hole drilled halfway up each leg, and visualizing some kind of a perfectly-placed "pull handle", either bar or flex-cord mounted.  I'll post a separate thread when I finally make something.  
     
    Otherwise, I've purchased two tubes of that copper gasket material late last fall to replace my pizza-stone-toasted felt, but it got too cold before I got them installed.  Look for another thread this spring as it warms up... 

    “Declare victory when you have retreated past the point where you started”   - Don Tzu

    Ogden, UT, USA

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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    @ragtop... that's the very reason for the daisy wheel.  visual reference.

    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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  • SteveWPBFL
    SteveWPBFL Posts: 1,327
    RE: Cooling hole. Sorry, that's the one in my head. Meant airflow or air feed hole or whatever they're called.
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  • troutgeek
    troutgeek Posts: 458
    Botch -- why not just purchase a handler?
    XL BGE - Large BGE - Small BGE - Traeger Lil' Tex Elite - Weber Smokey Joe
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 34,973
    alot used to just simply raise the lump grate a quarter inch up on some bolts to increase airflow or make a better lump grate. someone makes one now for sale. more open area increases the possible air flow and also helps incase a few holes et clogged from small lump or ash
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • tfoutch
    tfoutch Posts: 76

    That  is a High-q grate.  Works well.

     

    TFOUTCH Algood, Tennessee
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  • BOWHUNR
    BOWHUNR Posts: 1,487
    @stike

    Just curious how you drilled out your small.  Did you do both the lower vent and the fire box?

    Mike

    I'm ashamed what I did for a Klondike Bar!!

    Omaha, NE
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  • stike
    stike Posts: 15,597
    i had a drill... wasn't a ceramic (carbide) blade, actually.  which meant of course it was ruined eventually.  i was too lazy to drive to HD.

    it didn't help.  was before i put two and two together that damp ceramic is the main thing keeping an egg from getting to temp "like it used to".  just need to use it more
    ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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