Going to retire a drum, any ideas?

jdub · Mar 18, 2009

My first drum. I cut the lip off to try to fit a Kettle top. Well the cut was a little off, the drum and the kettle lid are a little out of round, and have been since the start. Trying to get it right has been nothing but chasing my tail, and several attempts to get it right have proved fruitless.
I put on the lid one time and it have a nice seal. Next time, it has a little leak and it spikes. Next time it gets a perfect seal and chokes.

I have sanded the top of the lid down to the point that the first "rib" of the drum is coming into play and the top will no longer fit if I sand any more.

So I am going to remove the guts and move on to another. I think the drum "knows", its sulking.

Any ideas before I do the deed?

Bbq Bubba · Mar 18, 2009

You gave it a shot, move on to a newer drum and you'll enjoy the smoker much more with a good seal!

bigabyte · Mar 18, 2009

Single shot right through the head. Get it over with quick.

jtwisted13 · Mar 18, 2009

make a burn barrel out of it..lol

cut the barrel into sections and use as extention rings on your next UDS

jdub · Mar 18, 2009

jtwisted13 said:
make a burn barrel out of it..lol

cut the barrel into sections and use as extention rings on your next UDS

Hmmmmmmmmmm.....(gears in head turning, grinding noises, smoke from ears)
I have another drum. Its a flat top and it rocks, but I really want to get the kettle top right. I have an old kettle bottom to steal the lip from (more grinding sounds, hmmmmmm)

CajunSmoker · Mar 18, 2009

jtwisted13 said:
make a burn barrel out of it..lol

cut the barrel into sections and use as extention rings on your next UDS

That's exactly what I did with my first one:-D

snoqualmiesmoker · Mar 18, 2009

CajunSmoker said:
That's exactly what I did with my first one:-D

Pics?

broschultz · Mar 18, 2009

retired drum

Paint the old one green. Put a 55 gallon plastic bag in it and drop it off at a Park's parking lot.

Bill-Chicago · Mar 18, 2009

Turn it upside down and try again

Jorge · Mar 18, 2009

Weld the lid on, and cut it open to turn it into a grill.

Single Fin Smoker · Mar 18, 2009

Wheres Swamp?

Try his mod, buy cutting the top 2 inches of the bottom have of a Weber kettle. I did the same thing and it worked for me.

1_T_Scot · Mar 18, 2009

Will a Keg fit in it?

biggs98 · Mar 18, 2009

Maybe a MINI UDS?????

peaspurple · Mar 18, 2009

It is hard to get a good seal with a kettle lid. I say keep that barrel for parts and start over...

Barbarian · Mar 18, 2009

Fark the kettle idea, use the bottom portion of the old one and a regular lid as a lid for the new one. Make a flat top lid.

swamprb · Mar 18, 2009

This was my first drum smoker and it was the springboard for what I enventually settled on now. Before the Ugly Drum Smoker thread got started Bigmista, Norco, thirdeye and others got my creative juices flowing and this is what I came up with.

It had four daisy wheel vents with four 1/2" intake holes and a Weber daisy wheel top vent on the lid. I used an 18" Weber kettle bottom with a chitload of holes in it for the charcoal basket.

I kept dinking around with it, cut the rolled lip off it, cut up donor drums to make a sleeve to make it taller and add more grates yada yada. I had fun with it, but I ended up scoring the 38" drums and set this bad boy out to pasture. Its a burn barrel now, but I'll probably scrap it in the Spring.

Gone but not forgotten!

Let it go!

Going to retire a drum, any ideas?

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