The lid bale I had came from a Gen 4 I flipped not long ago after reshaping it following a wind storm which knocked it out of shape. So step one was to find where the center point is on the other side of the bowl. Challenge here was no handle for a reference. So I took my trusty string, ran it over the top of the bowl, and lined it up to the centerline on the other side.
I should note that the ONLY way my method works is if I DIDN'T move the kettle at all once I centered it in the outline of my work space.
Then it was back to my blue performer bowl for measuring and verifying.
I took an old tape measure (the kind used by tailors and seamstresses....can I say that any more? Seamstresses? Oh well..) and I tucked it into the lip of the bowl and I measured from about centerline of one hole for the bale, around the perimeter to about center of the other hole, and measured about 22-3/4".
The holes (which are about 1/4” for those keeping score at home) we're about 1/2" to center below the bottom of the bowl lip.
Then I used my superior math skills (remember...five and a half years) and measured 11-3/8" from the center string to either side, and marked 1/2” down and this gave me where the upper holes for the lid bale get drilled.
Then for the bottom support screw of the bale I measured up from the inside of the lip of the blue bowl to be about 9-3/4" to center. I marked it along the string line of the crimson, and that's all she wrote.
All there is to do next is to (try not to f*ck up when I) drill and cut everything I marked!
But that will be after dinner
and some liquid courage...
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