Coconut ribs......ugh....lol
Thanks for the tip......here is the lid....the stuff is basically a rubber basket of sorts...that basically sticks from the back side....doubt it can stand the heat.....pun intended....lol
I always burn them out. Start your fire and place the lid at an angle on top. It will melt outta there. The burn helps with paint removal on the whole drum.
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Astrobeerman wrote:Coconut ribs......ugh....lol
Thanks for the tip......here is the lid....the stuff is basically a rubber basket of sorts...that basically sticks from the back side....doubt it can stand the heat.....pun intended....lol
Beerman,
Yes you want that gasket out of there. It will mostly come out easy, then I used my needle gun (lightly) and a wire wheel to clean.
Don
Get the lid warm and the gasket will fall right outta there, I built mine and fired it on coals holding good smoke temps for 30 some hours and the rest is history.
I'm bout to burn out my UDS. Was it me or did everyone else struggle to dismember these damn pallets....
I'm so tired I might put off the burn till tomorrow.........hopefully it doesn't rain.
I am about 4-4.5 hours into my burn and am out of wood........a pic of the drum is below
I dnt think that bottome third will fully get the paint off....
I used 3 pallets......flame was full blown....top 2/3rd is clean as a whistle.....
Thoughts on where to go from here? Shld I get more wood? Do you think this is sufficent enough?
I dnt think i can get more wood, I can try....
I'm not concerned with color outside.....but just want to make sure inside is cleaned out and ready to go...
Well, I ran out of wood, as from story above, and I went searching for more wood. I went in my garage, and pulled out a couple 2x4s and a couple of compressed wood sheets......very small section of compressed wood......like a 3 by 4.....I broke it up and fed thhe fire.....
Well, I put the lid on after the fire began going down....just bc....and a light avacado green smoke began coming out......I took my lid off.....and its entirely black....and had some sort of shinyness to it....but black.......
Not sure if those small sections of wood were treated or anything.....not sure....
But, from reading before about some wood and such maybe releasing some acid or something (maybe the wood treatment stuff)....I'm scared I might hhave done something wrong.....
Thoughts? Ill take a pic of the lid below...
I put this lid on the drum....half way.....and after a bit....the blackness shiney stuff got burnt off.......will do that....and hopefully watever was on it.....will burn away......damn its hot
How clean in a whistle?
It's hard to say on the black stuff. If you put the lid on, it could be a product of incomplete combustion. Once it cools down, grab a rag and see if it will wipe out. If so, you're ok.
Looking good man, actually the expanded is plenty strong by it self. Welded or rolled.
And I bet the black ick was from the glue in the flake board. The other thing that you can do is feed even a small fire with a leaf blower and it make a hotter fire faster. And you can always hit those paint spots with a wire brush while its still hot.