OK - not really. But it does entail some sand! Later, anyway.

After seeing a couple of Dave Bugg references to the
virtualweberbullet website, I though I would chime in with a recent
experiences of mine, a couple that I wouldn't have tried without
reading it there first. The site alone makes the cooker a buy as
those guys are so passionate about it they have explored just about
every aspect of it.

And in the spirit of helping others in the way I was helped with the
WSM, I will post some of my recent experience with this cooker over
the next few days in hopes that it will inspire or encourage someone
else.

First, the mods. Really easy ones, and only two.

1) After reading there that the WSM will let larger burning coals slip
through the charcoal grate, I put a left over round grate in from an
old Smokey Joe smoker on top of the charcoal grate with the old one
running perpendicular to the Weber grate. Now the coals have to be
pretty small, less than 1/2" to fall through. No loss of heat or any
temp problems arose from this.

2) Went to Academy and bought a large, 3" dial thermometer. The large
size makes it easy on the eyes. It is further easy on the eyes to
mount it in such a way that the 12 o'clock position is your target
temp. That way when you need to check temps, if the needle is
straight up and down, your temp is fine The thermo is worth its
weight in gold, and I mounted it just above the cooking grate. It is
mounted opposite to the top vent so that the thermo will read more
chamber temp and is not in the direct draft between the fire and the
top vent. Does that make a difference, who knows? But it sounded
like it should to me.

All I know is it works great.

More later.

Robert