- Dec 26, 2015
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I am making the harness to extend the controller myself. It's just a couple of small guage wires, nothing complicated.
On to the handle. I want to do everything on here to the best quality possible within reason. I'm already into this thing for somewhere around $1000 so when it came to the handle I tried something that worked, but not quite like I wanted it to. The original handle was in pretty poor shape, chrome was pitted and peeling in places. While the handle really needed to be stripped down and replated / powder coated I went with a rubberized bedliner type of spray to cover it. I may take the handle back off in the future, but we'll see how this works out for the time being. I wire brushed the handle and base like crazy to remove any of the chipping and loose chrome, then sprayed the whole thing. Ended up having to remove some of the coating on the sides because the handle will not function with the extra thickness. Not terribly happy but may have to re-address this in the future.
All insulated up, ready for the tub.
Tub in place. good thing I had some friends over while doing this, it's a bit of a tight fit by the controller box and getting the tub in place was fairly interesting. I'm going to add the extra supports that were all the way around the original tub (you can see the mounting holes) with new aluminum bracketing as my aluminum mounts for the trays / surround covered up the originals.
Pellet pro in, wiring started. I think I'm going to have to paint the hopper lid. Probaby same color as the fridge.
On to the handle. I want to do everything on here to the best quality possible within reason. I'm already into this thing for somewhere around $1000 so when it came to the handle I tried something that worked, but not quite like I wanted it to. The original handle was in pretty poor shape, chrome was pitted and peeling in places. While the handle really needed to be stripped down and replated / powder coated I went with a rubberized bedliner type of spray to cover it. I may take the handle back off in the future, but we'll see how this works out for the time being. I wire brushed the handle and base like crazy to remove any of the chipping and loose chrome, then sprayed the whole thing. Ended up having to remove some of the coating on the sides because the handle will not function with the extra thickness. Not terribly happy but may have to re-address this in the future.
All insulated up, ready for the tub.
Tub in place. good thing I had some friends over while doing this, it's a bit of a tight fit by the controller box and getting the tub in place was fairly interesting. I'm going to add the extra supports that were all the way around the original tub (you can see the mounting holes) with new aluminum bracketing as my aluminum mounts for the trays / surround covered up the originals.
Pellet pro in, wiring started. I think I'm going to have to paint the hopper lid. Probaby same color as the fridge.