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After firing up the UDS yesterday afternoon, I played around a bit with the valves to get a feeling for its temperature behavior.
At 22:00 I had it dialed in at 250°, at 00:30 it still hold that temperature despite a bit of rain.
This morning at 07:00 I found the UDS sitting at aprox. 200°...
I cut the top with an INOX grade 1mm disk on my small angle grinder. Cut from the top down just inside of the rim, so that the basket stays rigid.
I can't tell how long it stays at 250°, I'm playing around to get used to the setting of the valves in respect to the temperature, between each...
Hi again, this morning the postmen brought the washer drum I'm going to use as a charcoal basket.
Diameter is about 20", hight about 10"
High resolution pic of the side
I cut the top of
Because the bottom does not have any holes in it, I added a bottom of stretched steel about 1.5"...
The basket I used has no holes in the bottom, that's why I stirred up the coals.
I'm still waiting for the washer basket, as soon as it arrives, Ill post some pics.
Regards, Victor
Painted the Barrel with high temp paint this morning.
Installed the 1" ball valves and the thermometers which arrived from South Korea this morning.
Covered the inside of the drum with a light coat of vegetable oil.
Lighted the charcoal around 1pm, will try to burn in the paint and season...