On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 11:30:28 AM UTC-5, Tim wrote:
 John H
 On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:41:12 -0800 (PST), Tim  wrote: 
 
 John H 
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 I hate the thought of replacing the grill. Other companies make controllers and even motor/auger 
 combinations that will fit the Traeger. Hell, $350 is too much to throw out the window. But then 
 again, there is the philosophy of not  chasing sunk costs. Oh well, I can live with it. 
  
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 If bad leads to worse you could always go back to charcoal. Lol!
 
 $350.00 seems highuntell you look at the price of the professional competition grill smokers...  Wow!
 https://www.yodersmokers.com/frontiersman-trailer.html
And that's for a stick-fed smoker.  It is custom built, though.  Yoder makes some nice stuff.  Here's their top-of-the-line pellet grill.
https://www.yodersmokers.com/cimarron-pellet-smoker.html
I bought a pellet grill from this company:
https://memphisgrills.com/
Designed, built and shipped from their factory in Minnesota.  When I ordered mine I called to check on it, and they rang me through to the production supervisor.  He'd just come out of a meeting, and confirmed they'd be running my model later that week.