all righty--I have fixed the traeger and installed the portable a/c. Gonna call that done with chores for today.
@MidnightRider ooh yeah--early on we had like, a biblical type storm & the pellets that were in the auger pipeline thingy all got damp & disintegrated & then fused. That was not pleasant to clear out.
This one was easy though--dang bolt that acts as a hinge for the lid loosened & then fell into a just-big-enough hole into the control housing. I just had to open the bottom of it to retrieve.
@rpardee I'm going to upgrade some home items but not till my summer job is through.
@rpardee The old pellet stove technology. I rebuilt a Whitfield prodigy that I'm selling with my house. I can't see how leaving any pellets in an outdoor machine is going to work well for the Chef.