Yeah, it's new to me because this is the first kettle that I've come into that has these "deposits" on the vents, legs and ash pan. The 0000 steel wool isn't touching it, per say, but it's got to be from either storage or other chemical contact. Just a thought. Whatever it is has really attacked the metal. I know there is something that will clean it up and some folks who have ran into this. It will be a good conversation to have had for the future RRR's.
The age guide states the wooden handles were replaced with the glass reinforced nylon handles in 2000, but the upside down EE code isn't mentioned.
I work rotating shift work in the last part of American manufacturing and I wonder if that backwards stamp wasn't from the assembly operator with the stamp screwed up. Messed up from the beginning of the run and not caught until sometime down the production line. It happens....
Beautiful kettle, brother. Hope to hear some good feedback.
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