Tan Liner

[Dcb5739]

Does a Tan Liner in a corn syrup barrel need to be removed ?, If so whats the best method. Hard to do a full burn out with the restrictions here in town
Thanks
Dave

[gmotoman]

That is an epoxy liner. Have to grind it out.

[blues_n_cues]

I answered this in another post but if you can find a reginal/local oil & fuel distributor they usually have new clean 55 gal drums w/ no liners.
I pay $20 for mine locally.

[wsyrob]

Sandblasting or a lot of elbow grease with a wire wheel on a grinder.

[DDave]

There has been a lot of debate on this over the years. Conventional wisdom used to be that it needed to be removed down to bare metal. But that can be really hard to do. It's probably the best case scenario but . . . again . . . sometimes it ain't easy.

No one with a chemistry background ever addressed it to my knowledge until Curious Aardvark did in this post.

general consensus is that it's harmless. Anything that might be dodgy will be burned out in the initial hi-temp 'burn out'.

So if you can't get all the crap off - seriously, it's not a problem just ignore it.

You're never going to clean the inside of the drum, so after a while it'll be covered in smoke residue anyway.

But ultimately it depends on your comfort level. Give it a decent go with a weed burner or something that you can get away with in town. You can try a wirewheel but some of the liners don't even get scratched with a wirewheel. Sand blasting would be great if you can find someone to do it and want to pay the money.

Or just do your best, get what you can out, give it a couple of good seasoning runs and cook.

Again, it depends on your comfort level.

Dave

[Slanted88]

throw it on it's side & get the weed burner after it...outside bad hot..rotate a 1/4 burn...if ya can throw a 20# bag of charcoal cause ya in the burn not gig...rotate & it'll give it up...

[crusty ol salt]

throw it on it's side & get the weed burner after it...outside bad hot..rotate a 1/4 burn...if ya can throw a 20# bag of charcoal cause ya in the burn not gig...rotate & it'll give it up...

I am thinking somewhere between cherry red and molten yellow?

[Dcb5739]

I got sick years ago from all the chemicals i absorbed painting cars, always had a fresh air mask, but that stuff absorbs through your skin. I don't want to be exposed to that stuff as I monitor a burn off , so its going to head down the road if some one local wants to try it or they can use it for a trash can or burn barrel