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hi every one hears a tip for you , iff your looking for tubeing for your smoker unit go to your nearest pet shop & ask for air tubeing for fish tanks , you can allso get angled jointing as well for corners & t shaped tanker 242.

Nice tip.
Thank you

your wellcome lister fiend , iff we can help our fellow tankers out with tips we find out . the better our hobby gets . tanker 242

Hey, just a heads up on tubing or caution when selecting ... from my own limited experience, one of the worst issues with selecting tubing is getting a tube with an inside diameter which ends up being slightly too small.

One of the biggest smoker gurus we have around on several of the tank forums, is strmnd54 (legendary for his smoker builds!), & he simply uses bendy straws for smoker tubing. I believe their inside diameter is slightly larger than the typical fish tank air tubing, at least it seems to be from what I have noticed with our straws & similar fish tank air tubing I've purchased here in the US.

On very short lengths of tubing, smaller diameter tubes might work fine, but the condensation which builds up in the tubes over time can easily block them completely or at the very least, greatly reduce the flow of smoke, especially as the tubing length increases from smoker to final exhaust location, or if there are any tighter bends that you might have to make in the tubing during its internal routing. So just make sure you get a big enough inside diameter tubing so blockage by condensation is minimized for your specific smoker/tubing setup.


~ Craig ~

I found that the local Halfords clear windscreen washer tubing of approx.4.5mm ID was a snug fit on the smoker units connection points of aprox.4.8 OD, and so far it seems to work fine puffing away quite well.

Great tip, doing work on my unit, so this helps, thanks

Went to local fish aquarium supplies shop yesterday and got the clear water filter tubing, much softer, smoother and bends better than the stock clear plastic smoker pipes and fits perfectly. So thanks again for this tip from the other guys, cheers.

Forgot to say price was only £2.70 for about a meter.