- Nov 10, 2014
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I am new to this brilliant website and hope someone can provide me some direction/tips on converting an old stainless steel DE pool filter into a vertical BBQ smoker?
I would plug the hole in the bottom (assuming there will be one once you remove that piece) and the one that comes in near the bottom on the side.
'Given the dimensions I would add two 1" black pipe nipples with valves about 2" up from the bottom. I'd put (3) 3/4" holes in the top for exhaust. You should be able to find a stock grate that will fit. Looks like the lid is pretty tall so I'd put the grate pretty close to the top of the lower part of the filter where the split is. Make yourself a charcoal basket with legs and an ash pan attached to the bottom. I'd use expanded metal for that. For your legs use bolts and for the ash pan use a pizza pan. Bolt the legs through the bottom of the expanded metal and bolt to the pizza pan. If you're not a welder then you can wire the expanded metal to for the basket, or fold it together. There's a link somewhere where someone did that worked great.