Hook mod

[Brewmaster]

I had some spare time in work and decided to reverse bend some hooks for my next cook to make hanging chicken a little easier, also made a little stand for the remote Smoke, can sit in my Lazy Boy and just glance over

[lschweig]

Nice job on the hooks. I keep hoping PBC will come out with the reverse hooks.

[HawkerXP]

Me too!

[Nate]

+1 on what lschweig said.... I too am hoping that they will make some... Noah and the crew seem to listen to be open to listening to suggestions... so I remain optimistic....

Then again they may have never thought some of us would get this serious and detailed about our PBCs... you have to admit we can be a little obsessive sometimes.

[lschweig]

Obsessive? No not me! There have been threads on the reverse hooks previously, so I am keeping my fingers crossed.

[Bumper]

Does ordering a PBC coffee cup with your hanging grate order after 1 cook count as obsessive? #love my PBC!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jerod Broussard]

That's neat.

[RonB]

Well done.

[MBMorgan]

Nice! FWIW, this summer I asked the PBC folks to please consider making exactly the same thing. I got the usual polite cookie-cutter reply thanking me for the suggestion ... and my frustrated fingers have been crossed in vain ever since ...

[JPP]

Me too... it sure would be nice to have the top hooks on the rebar going in the same direction on a pork butt... it's a pita the way it works now... of course I like pita bread....

[lschweig]

I actually just talked with PBC today about the hooks while ordering more rub. Unfortunately it was customer service, but she said she liked the idea and would pass it along.

[Abom]

They look very simple to make. Maybe I should get the dimensions and sell them myself!

[Brewmaster]

The only thing I did was put the hook end in the vice and take a propane torch to the center, used a screw driver as a pry bar and bent them carefully to keep them straight, took about 15 minutes for the whole process, by the way SS retains heat real well use plyers or good gloves when removing from vice

[lschweig]

If I understand properly did you twist them? Or did you re bend them?

[Brewmaster]

I just twisted them

[lschweig]

Thanks. I just put a ham in and was thinking that some straight aligned hooks might be nice to have as well.

[JPP]

And they didn't break or anything? Wow. How much force did it require? I.e. did you do this by hand or with some form of machinery?

[Brewmaster]

I tried posting a video but had no luck, if you heat it up cherry red on the straight part you can twist it with a screw driver with out much force, you only have to heat about a 1 inch area, if you send me your e mail I try to send video

[JPP]

Heat... Huh, who knew? I'm going to have to turn in my physics degree...

[fuzzydaddy]

Brewmaster Videos have to be embedded from another service like YouTube.

Use this format [VID=youtube;ZbC9UGLez54]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbC9UGLez54[/VIDEO]

EXCEPT change the letters "VID" to "VIDEO". If I used VIDEO in this post, the video would have embedded and you wouldn't be able to see the command I used.