Guessed wrong. I own several, including the WSM -- although I use a Kamado
most of the time.

So why, if you own one, do you advocate a dry hot run to burn off paint
residues of which there are none? Why even briong up paint in the first
place when talking about a WSM? Might as well have said "you need to run
it without food before you use it to get the aliens to fly out of it."