I'm a new member. First post out of the call. I had, and still am planning on building a UDS but was excited with this unit. Read the whole thread and decided to pick one up at Lowes. Brought it home and assembled it seeing the flaws that i have picked up on through reading thid thread. the ash catcher has a visible space between it and the lower body, the bottom air intake is very loose but that was all that i really saw. I plan to seal the intake back side with the high temp silicone and use a hightemp felt to help with the slider. The clamps that attach the ash catcher either need to be stronger or the seal thicker. I'll work on that. Seasoned it tonight and will see how low it will cook either tomorrow or Sunday. My thermometer was dead nuts on during the seasoning but I was not using the diffuser at that time. More to come