Finally my 30gal. UDS done with pics(pic heavy)
Want to thank everyone for their help, tips and ideas and also to CCWR for his diffuser help and a big thanks to Jbtech for mailing me a step bit across the country so I could make my 1in.air intake holes.
So I started with a 30gal. drum and used the lid and grill and charcoal grill from a Weber Jumbo Joe I got on sale at Walmart. The lid did not fit my drum, but when I flipped the drum over it fit perfect. So after attacking the bottom of the drum with my sawzall I got the bottom out and now the lid fits perfect and the bottom is now the top of my smoker.
So using the charcoal grill from the Weber and some scrap expanded metal from work I welded up my basket.
I did inside the drum a bit different from what I have seen here, I welded nuts to the inside to screw my bolts in to hold my grills.
More scrap metal I found at work that I bent into a tray to hold my Maverick and attached it to a magnet to stick to the drum. Not shown, but I also put some high dense foam in the tray to protect my Maverick and keep it from moving.
Not sure what they were, but I found some brass thingy's to run my probes through the drum, work perfect after some grinding.
Found a Betty Crocker pizza pan at the dollar store and made bigger holes using CCWR hole pattern for my heat deflector.
Welded an extension rod from the ball valve to raise the handle, and bent up some metal to make handles and welded them on and got her put together and painted.
Made my first Jimmy Dean fatty with my youngest daughter, she had fun making the weave. Stuffing is onion, mushrooms, yellow and orange peppers and cheese. Also threw on a few venison sausages.
And my first spatchcook chicken this morning using Moose's awesome rub recipe.
(It's in a summer house down the country. UDS creation doesn't really suit apartment living!)
