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SwampassJ
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The tip is don't get a barrel with a liner :becky:
Barrel was free so I couldn't afford to be picky. Especially down here where everyone is selling the plastic barrels on craigslist.
The tip is don't get a barrel with a liner :becky:
If you want to use the lid you're going to need a drum with a removable lid, the kind with the locking ring.
Burned out my drum today and started wire wheeling it. Holy **** this is thing is taking for ever to wire wheel out. I've spent about 40 minutes and I've only managed to remove the top 1/3rd of the barrels liner and my hands are killing me now from holding on the drill.
Am I missing a valuable tip in this thread about doing this? And after doing the top 1/3 I'm dreading getting down to the bottom. Am I going to have to lie down with my head in the barrel? I don't want to spend 40 minutes bent at the waste trying to reach the bottom.
Burned out my drum today and started wire wheeling it. Holy **** this is thing is taking for ever to wire wheel out. I've spent about 40 minutes and I've only managed to remove the top 1/3rd of the barrels liner and my hands are killing me now from holding on the drill.
Am I missing a valuable tip in this thread about doing this? And after doing the top 1/3 I'm dreading getting down to the bottom. Am I going to have to lie down with my head in the barrel? I don't want to spend 40 minutes bent at the waste trying to reach the bottom.
If you are still working on it, I used a weed burner before wire brushing, it made very quick work of the inside liner, heat it from the outside and it will burn the inside liner off. If you put the torch inside, it will just burn out as it consumes the oxygen so rapidly.
http://www.harborfreight.com/propane-torch-with-push-button-igniter-91037.html
OK Brothers, after reading through the first 350 pages of this thread, I decided I should finally build one and make my first post. Here's my newly built UDS.
Some spares in action. Made my own sauce similar to William's Spicy Apple Grillin' sauce (Sorry, no pics of the completed ribs). My family said these were the best ribs they've EVER tasted.
Many Thanks to all the Brethren who came before me and inspired me with this thread!
Moose
Wow.... I did all of that work and an instant down pour hit. 3 minutes after getting it up onto the porch and it is already rusted over on the inside. Please tell me this is ok.
Weed burner, or use a blower when doing the burn out. Make sure you have your bung holes cut, then hook up a shop vac to one - will turn the barrel into a blast furnace... Faster hotter burn.Burned out my drum today and started wire wheeling it...Am I missing a valuable tip in this thread about doing this?
Hi all, wow great thread..
Just wondering if anyone can tell me if this needs to be sandblasted or not..
It looks like bare metal to me, but it hasn't rusted, and feels like there's an oily coating..
I'm about 99% sure its bare metal, but there's defintely some kind of greasy coating, that I believe washes off.. Anyone know what it might be?
This is pretty much the only thing i got to figure out before i can start smoking!
Hi all, wow great thread..
Just wondering if anyone can tell me if this needs to be sandblasted or not..
It looks like bare metal to me, but it hasn't rusted, and feels like there's an oily coating..
I'm about 99% sure its bare metal, but there's defintely some kind of greasy coating, that I believe washes off.. Anyone know what it might be?
This is pretty much the only thing i got to figure out before i can start smoking!
Wash with a liquid dish soup and then, spray it with Pam and give it a few good seasoning, should be good to go. Unless it was used as a chemical drum. Then I would get a food grade drum.
I actually built mine inside a larger, 85 gal drum that I use as a "shell":
There's another Brother here - Smokin' Joe - who did the same thing (I shigged his idea :redface The biggest difference is his is insulated with rock wool and mine just uses the air gap as an insulator.
I can lay my hand on the outside of the drum anytime during a cook and just hold it there. It gets warm, but not hot enough to burn and the shell does a good job of keeping it from losing heat to the wind or rain.
The lid is still an issue. I haven't come up with a way to insulate the lid yet that I'm willing to try.
At the end of the day, I don't think it matters too much though.