Smoke stack in place. Fits. Removed for burn out.
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Removed gasket on inside lid with a screw driver. Easy.
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All set for burn out this weekend depending on the weather.Comment
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I'm more than impressed, you need to patent and sell these babies.....
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I was going to say don't burn out with the top on because from my experience it gets hotter than normal use and warps. But I see that has a liner on it as well. I am curious to see how the liner burns out. Mine was from divider / Mineral oil Like Pam used for spraying bakers racks in ovens and had no liner. Good luck and thanks for keeping us up to date, your going to love smoking with this. Smoke out!Comment
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How bad do they warp? Are they usable after burn out? I was wondering about that. I've seen video where people throw them in but I've never seen them come out. 😀 Keep the suggestions coming! Powersmoke_80 -
Mudkat Mine potato chipped about a 1/4" and I have tweeked it back close but still have to tap it down in a couple spots when cooking.
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After an hour or so with a torch and a wire wheel I removed the liner from the inside side of the lid. Here's what I used and how it looks now. The second pic is with the liner removed. Powersmoke_80
I'll have to burn/wheel off the top paint and burn off the inside lip with the torch but there is no warping on the lid. I figure the whole thing will take about three hours. Not bad to keep it from warping.Comment
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Powersmoke_80 Jon Solberg Mr. Bones PBCDad Troutman
Burned out the drum today. Here's some notes and pics.
Started with two pallets, one oak, one pine. I put a bed of charcoal on the bottom of the barrel first to try to keep an even burn.
I doused the wood with about 1/2 bottle of lighter fluid and tried to get a lot of it to the bottom on the charcoal.
I also squirted a bunch through the bottom two holes and used these ports to start the fire.
The fire was lit at 2:30 p.m. It was breezy with about a 45 degrees ambient temperature. I think both of these things affected the burn. The wind kept the flame more to one side of the barrel and I think the temp kept the temps below 1000 degrees on the outside of it. I used a infrared thermometer to monitor the temp of the barrel. It never got hotter than 450 degrees on the bottom except where the holes were and stayed around 775 degrees on top. By the way, that's a 300 hundred degree difference between the top and the bottom. It was hard to get close to the barrel because the wind was blowing the flame around but I think the temp readings were pretty close
I put two more oak pallets in the barrel after about an hour or so. Each time I added a pallet I used a leaf blower pointed directly at a bottom hole to stoke the fire. It's now 7:45 p.m.and the bottom third of the drum is still full of red hot coals.
The paint on the outside is either burned off or will be easily wire wheeled off for most of the barrel. There a few places on the bottom that the paint does not even seem to be blistered nor has it lost it's gloss so that'll take a little work. I am not sure what condition the inside liner is like other than it's been greatly affected, cracked, burned and so on. I'll know more about that once it cools down enough to scrape around inside.
Here's some pics.
Fully loaded.
Fire in the hole.
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Looking good!Comment
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I really got somewhere today. The barrel still had about a six(?) inches of coals burning in it this morning when I got up. So the first thing I needed to do was dump out the coals, ash, and pallet nails into something that would contain the nails for clean up later. Didn't want them all around the yard so to speak. I had an old Weber bottom that did the trick. Dumped everything into there and let it burn out the rest of the day. I'll be able to easily bag the everything tomorrow.
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Next it was time to wire wheel the entire drum inside and out to remove all the paint, char, and liner that didn't burn off. Here's what it looked like after the burn. Some of the bottom outside paint was barely touched so I hit with a weed burner and wheeled it off too. The inside was harder to reach but everything came off easier. The wire wheel process took about 2 1/2 - 3 hours. Made sure to have cotton in my ears, safety glasses and a mask. It was LOUD inside the drum!
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Next I sanded both inside and out with a random orbital sander. How it looked after the wire wheel.
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Next I sanded both inside and out with a random orbital sander. Took maybe twenty minutes or so. I think the pic of the inside of the drum above is after it was sanded.
Here it is ready to be primed.
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The stack and the air intakes are made by Smokerbuilder MFG for Island Outdoor LLC. I bought them at UDSParts.com. Like the video!
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