Alternativley you can get it blasted. Soda blasting or bead blasting should get the lining out. And once you have the unit built you can season it with lid and all the bits in place. Burning it out does not do a better job than other methods it's just generally easier in a D.I.Y environment and of course gives us a reason to play with fire...
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You have to be careful not to warp the lid. I start with unlined drums but many don’t. So burn it with the vacuum blowing in the air vent hole and when it cools they say it comes right out with ajax or comet.
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Well, I think I’m going to try using my ditch burner. It’s 800,000BTU so I think it’ll burn off the exterior pretty easy and hopefully simultaneously burn off the interior. We’ll see.
Well the torch is slow but it works so I’ll try and finish up burning the rest of the paint off tonight and or tomorrow. Called a couple sandblast places and they wanted $100. Don’t think so. The parts I ordered from udsparts.com should be showing up tomorrow so I went ahead and drilled all the holes I want in it so I can at least mock everything up. Still have to get the U bolt for the pipe though. Since I have the two guru setups for my big smoker I’ll be setting this one up for a guru as well.
Little off topic but still in the process of stripping off the paint on the old Yummy Tummy Rib Wagon as you can see. Plan is to strip all the paint off, do a proper prep job this time and then coat it in cerakote glacier black. Decided on that because it’s an air cure coating and has a heat and shock rating up to 2000 degrees. I’ll post pics of that in the other thread once it’s finished.
This is as good as I could get it using a torch, angle die grinder, and then scrubbing it out. Hopefully it’s good enough. Going with gray and black for the colors. Have a couple plugs for the two other holes in the lid showing up at some point today.
Learning generally boils down to "Repetition or the avoidance of pain", some people learn by doing, some by watching and some just have to pee on the electric fence.
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. Henry Ford
Thank you much. I’m interested in seeing how it works. Never cooked on one before and not 100% on how the guru will work with it. Guess I’ll find that out when I season it.
Thank you sir. Going to let the paint cure for at least three days before seasoning it, maybe Friday. Here’s pretty much the final setup. Turned on the guru and it is getting good air flow so I think it’ll work good. Since I’m forcing air into the drum I may put screen in the bottom of the 14-40 to prevent the guru from pushing ash out. I don’t think it’s going to be pushing a lot of air once it’s up to temp but who knows.
Let it be known that from this day till forever more, The Czar is not allowed near any of my smokers that have yet to be seasoned! Possibly after. Maybe if he keeps his hands in his pockets. Maybe.
Got a last minute call and have to be in St. Louis ready to work on Monday so I wasn’t able to season it today. Spent most of the day getting things ready but I will be firing it up tomorrow. We’ll see how it holds up and works.
Shot up over 300 as soon as I put the lid on but it’s settled down to 275 where I’ll be holding it for the next couple hour. Not sure if that’s just what they do or if there’s a trick to it but it seems to be doing well. Pretty big fan of that 14-40 basket. I’ll be trying a brisket out on it when I get back to Amarillo. Pretty sure this won’t be the last one I throw together.