Stampede Sealed lid and smoke vents

[matthewstn]

Tonight I sealed my lid with Fireblack 1/2”x1/8” high temp gasket, and sealed around my smoke vents with red high temp RTV. Previously I was getting a lot of smoke leaking from around the lid, which was letting the top of the cook chamber get filthy after only a couple cooks. I haven’t cooked on it yet, but did a test run at 180 degrees and got zero leakage around the lid or the smoke vents. Seems to have worked really well and held 180 just fine!

 

[Mastertech59]

Your Stampede will now stay a lot cleaner on the outside surfaces.

 

[charlesrshell]

Looks nice @matthewstn.

 

[GH41]

I understand the vents if you cook in the rain but not the gaskets... RT could have made them original equipment for 3 bucks if they did anything.

 

[tpack]

I did the same thing to mine . Stays very clean.