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I started on a Brinkmen box smoker, first thing I did was get a tube of high temp silicon, clean the surface of the door seal with a wire brush, i layed it on it's back I used. 2 1/8 drill bits on the sealing surface closed the door and adjusted the latch to hold the solid, open it back up and put tape around the outside of the box for easy clean up later. Coat the door with a heavy coat of bacon grease and on the box sealing surface put a heavy bead of high temp silicon and close the door and latch it the leave it alone long enough for it to cure, stand it back up and open it, you should have a very nice door seal now, remove the nails as the can be used for temp probe wires now, if it leaks at all now just tighten the latch a little and it shouldn't leak anymore, mine didntI have two Brinkman box smokers and am having terrible trouble keeping my temp. up one holds a barley 200 and the other holds around 200 on temp gauge. I have tried to adjust the dampers to raise the temp and I am UN-ABLE to raise the Temp. I tried adding more charcoal even added large chucks of smoking wood DRY!!! Can you give me any cures to this problem. I feel that the both doors dont seal and the heat is coming out of the doors but I may be wrong. Can anyone provide a CURE!! Thanks