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I have a closed head 55 gal drum, and an open head 15 gal drum with a cover. What do you guy's have for build ideas? I already have a UDS. I bet there are alot of ideas floating around here, Can you all help?
The exhaust has a damper, so I will try closing it up a bit.
The pipes are my extended air intakes. I origanally had only one extended 3/4" and it seemed like I had air flow problems. I added the second and made it 1" and it seemed to work better. I am going to try closing the exhaust damper...
I have one 3" exhaust, two 3/4" and one 1" intake. I have found that it is hard to keep the fire going if I want my temps under 250. She runs well in the 260-275 range.
I started it up today, again, to do another season/test. The temps ran allot better this time around. I had some un-expected company show up so I popped all the intakes open and did up some burgers, dogs and some chedderwurst. I tell you what, they came out great with a bit of hickory smoke...
This is version 1.1.2. After a test run last night, I realized I couldn't get enough air flow through the estended 3/4 pipe. I already painted it so I couldn't return the parts for 1". So, I made another 1" throttle with stuff I had on hand. Also I put some casters I had on the bottom, and added...
Here it is. It's getting a season right now. Just trying to get a feel for it before i throw any meat on it. The stack and the lid handle are from my "retired" Brinkmann.
It's almost done. I loaded up the basket with about 10 lbs and let her rip. Got the temps up to 600*F+ to try and burn it out. It's a new drum, so I figured I didn't need a great big fire in it. I ended up scaming alot of parts from my offset because the UDS is going to replace it. I didn't go...
I just picked up an open head drum with a lid, brand new for free! I've looked around alot and gotten some ideas, but I have a question.
What size should the exhaust be?
I wanna make this thing look cool, and was gonna do dual stacks like a big rig. I was going to use 2" exhaust pipe and weld...