316 Stainless UDS build help is welcome

Well here we go then

First of all sorrie for my englich
ill try to keep it so everyone can reed it (im actually dutch)

Today was a good day to start my first smoker/UDS build

And i started with the heart of the monster the charkole box

i had these two stainless grills lying around
been laying in the grass somewhere in the yard for a few years
and where never cleaned before i threw them there



its about 7 mm so its gonna get heavy


so i used a cutting disc to cut the ends off

and i ended up with 34 dirty rods
how to clean these bad boys
i like making it easy so i clamped a power drill and put the rods in one by one cleaning them with sanding paper

after a few i was wandering what the hell i was dooing and why i diddend use new ones
just keep gooing dennis it will all be worth it you will see

and yes finually after i thing 2 life times and maybe 60 minutes


so here i had my rods nice and clean lets make something

started with making a circle on the work bench and placing rods in there for starters


Tig welded with 316L wire two overlaying rods




weld 3 rods together and bend it around for the circle (kinda)


added 15 cm rod standing up 36 times


weld a 2 mm by 20 mm strip of stainless to the top of that and added a handle to be able to pick it out of the uds
alsow added 8 cm legs under it to lift it up from the ground



Thinking about dooing a pizza tray or someting under it to catch the falling aches

So this in day one of the build

plan is to make the whole thing stainless 316

im getting a 200 L 55 gallon barrel from my moms work place where they trow there tings out every day
its been used for fich oil for the food industry so its gonna stink like fich for sure

but nothing a good power wach and burn wont get out

i already have the 3/4 threads 90 degree bents ballvalves and uprichts to make 3 inlets all 3/4

alsow ill be building a temp controller bij using a pid controller and a fan

and these will be incorperated in this build

so any ideas you guys have or if you see me make a mistake please comment and i can make the change if need be

this is my first build so lets hope all turns out well

thanks for reading and try and keep up

I hope the intake wont be a problem becouse of the ventilator im gooing to use on one of the intakes

Plan is to put 2 intakes 3/4 on the front left and richt with 90 degree turn up and a pipe to bring the ball valves just under the rim all 3/4

And then have the ventilator on the back it comes with 3/4 outher thred

Thanks for the advice on the grilling mod was looking for a way to do this

hi again

i think i have a little bit of a problem
today i got the fotos of the barrels my mom got for me from here work
its 210 L in stead of 200 so there a little bigger not a problem
there mega heavy thick steal (compare it to a stainless steal cooking pot)
no problem there makes it a lot stronger
and there shiny really shiny

did i mention im getting these for free

theres one mayor problem



THE LID

OMG

How am i gonna make this work

i dont have a webber lid (not that they have those in stainless)

and i was planning to use this one but was expecting one with one of those bads you can take off

anyone suggestions what to do ??

is there a tread of a tutorial where someone already did it

im thinking of cutting it off and welding a flenge to it of something its thick stuff and i have a tig welder

who can help ?

thanks

dennis

#3- for the lid, that's a tough one. I had the same situation, and I kinda screwed up, but I saved it with a Weber lid. After I cut my top off, I read that you can grind around the outside of that rolled bead, just through the first layer of material, and the lid will pop off but be able to go back on. I'd do that first next time. I'm sure it'll take a bit more grinding and sanding to make it a clean reusable lid.

Gonne get these 2 bad boys next week thursday so the weekend after that in gooing to try to cut it off and maybe round the end and make a lid of it it looks like i have Some metal on the top to work with

Dont really like the look of the t shape and i already promisd the other barrel to a friend with same idea

Ill make the top work

Right now im pickeling the stainless charkole basket update in 1 our contains good tips on how to make stainless really rust proof after welding (also with steel)

ok so here it is

i call it pickeling couse that what it says on the jar
before pics



so the pickeling is to clean all discouloration you see after welding and that means pulling the dirty stuff the air surrounding youre weld while welding ans while cooling has in it and mixis in the metal its this what will couse youre stainless to rust after welding

think about youre fire pit if you put water on red metal it will rust instantly
dont realy know how to explain better google it

what i use is pickeling paste


yes it will kill you if you look at it to long and hurts if hits skin after 5 seconds
do wear gloves goggels and long sleevs
wash hands after and be really caruful

just put it on with painting bruch


let soak for 30-45 minutes and powerwach and clean with lots of water and bruch and pressure washer




you can see the colour change where the welds where

use the stuff all the time and love it

also if you weld on the barrel and you get the colouring you can remove this

if used on steal wash off after 15 min or it wil start eating the metal