Hidden Beauty

[Darko]

Gotta admit; that is creative!!

[MacEggs]

the former owners did was drill a hole in the bottom of the bowl, install the hardware for a One Touch sweeper system (without the sweeps), place the original ash pan inside the base of the bowl, drill a hole in the center to pass the One Touch hardware through to secure the pan, and lastly...drill holes through the pan - through the original vent holes to allow it to breath.  Genius!

Gotta admit .... Mod Month material!!

[Jeff]

Ok, so put a little time in today.  This black paint is on pretty good.  Steel wool was painfully slow, paint thinner didn't cut it, but I was slow and very careful with a razor.  Followed that up with steel wool and Dawn to finish small spots and shine it.  Not too bad so far...but there are bad areas missing porcelain coming on the other half.  Too be continued...







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[kettlebb]

Document the hours on this please. Would love to know how much time goes into this one. That lid looks like it's a good shape!


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[Jeff]

I've spent an hour on it to this point.  I'll document my time into it from here on out.
@kettlebb.  Notice the big chip on the other side of the lid that will be coming to light soon.  Sad.  It looks OK aside from that.

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[addicted-to-smoke]

This is gonna be the poster child for Rescues.

Ya'll might consider it a front page feature when done.

[WNC]

Oh my god! That vent/ash pan system is genius!
I've been trying to figure out a system for converting three wheelers to one touch for a while, this is great.
It doesn't seem like it would handle the ash, which is really the biggest glory of the one touch system, but damn, the original owner was really on to something.
This is gonna be a great thread!


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[HoosierKettle]

That one touch ash pan idea is very creative.  Yellow looks nice so far. Are you going to use yellow paint on the large chip?


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[Jeff]

@hoosierkettle.  I don't think I'm going to do anything with the chips.   Clean them up best I can, maybe hit me with be some high temp black.   We'll see.  If I painted it with yellow, it wouldn't hold up to the heat over time, and the yellow touched areas wouldn't match with the color change either.  The chipped areas will be for the grill's new owner to decide! 

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[greenweb]

Great job so far! cleaned up nicely. Looking forward to the total transformation.

[Hofy]

As they say, "That will buff right out"!

[RottiGuy]

Lookin good!!

[Darko]

Looking good so far.

[Foster Dahlet]

Whoa! That's a new one for me! One touch installed to secure the ashpan..... makes for one interesting Weber Grill System! As John Picker says "that's what we gets! Yup Yup!! WHAAAAAT!??"

Looking forward to this coming back to life, Jeff!


HOLY GRAILS: 1950s era Black or Custom finish 18.5 or 22.5 Kettle, Brown Go Anywhere grill.

Yup yup!  Best ribs in town....better than Applebees!

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[inkaddictedchef1]

Sweet... looks to be a rewarding challenge. Looking forward to watching the restore on this.

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