rocketmanray
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I didn't want to hijack another thread, so I'm starting a new one specifically with smoking inside a galvanized trash can. Someone (Hav?) had found this site in the other thread:
http://www.cruftbox.com/cruft/docs/elecsmoker.html
the writer was quite satisfied they had found a cheap smoker by using the galvanized metal trash can and an electric eye.
We may want a welder to chime in on this....
I had a small galvanized pipe brazed to a metal milk crate for another project, it was for the plow disk Gastobac burner propane fuel line. The welder recommended NOT breathing the fumes when he was brazing the galvanized pipe; he said they are phosgene gas (like the chemical agents used in the war). I have no proof they are phosgene gas, none the less I knew they were toxic.
I'm not so sure the issue is cooking in a galvanized trashcan, but would the concern be with the galvanized if the galvanized (zinc) is heated and has oxidized (the reason for the "smoke"). If you're not heated the zinc to zinc oxide using the heat, the galvanized trashcan should be fine???
I said "should"....
Any one with welding experience want to chime in?
Maybe there's a thread already archived on the subject?
Not that I'm running out to find an alternative to the UDS.... I loved the first one so much I just built a second one today!! I certainly don't want to compromise my status as a drumhead, I wear that label proudly. :lol:
RMR