Here’s the Big Ben Smoker Cap installed - I like this, a cool touch added on to a great smoker! I have not tried the functionality at this point, need to smoke something this week. But, the install was easy, much easier than I thought it would be because the ring isn’t tight like I was expecting, even with build up smoke from 3 year’s of smoking.
Here are a few pics - two installed and one with the cover on since someone asked about it above. I have the 3D so the height is about the same. If you had concerns about the cover, you could put a towel over to keep the steel from rubbing. I place a rug on top of this and then my waterproof heavy duty cover from Coversandall over this.
But, the nice thing, don’t wrench this down when installing and you can twist it to block the wind from coming down, at least seems that’s how it could work as well. And should be easy to get the probes I use into the hole just like normal.
Hope this helps those of you looking at this and wondering about functionality. I’ll post again after smoking.