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Grill Talk => Weber Grill Forum (Grills, Accessories) => Topic started by: Hell Fire Grill on February 23, 2016, 03:20:14 PM
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I found this thing on CL yesterday in bad shape.
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After I hosed it down I found the damage was worse than I realized, with multiple rust holes around the ash sweepers.
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This morning I started fixing it.
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All the screws got ground down almost flush but I didn't get a pic of it yet.
Its getting fired up and cooked on later tonight.
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HOLY SHIT @Hell Fire Grill you are amazing. What did you use to cut out the black kettle?
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Wow, what an ingenious fix! That's really awesome, and way to bring a SS back to life!
I had to go back and keep looking at the picks I'm so impressed
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Great job, Hell Fire!
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Nice fix!
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That is an incredible repair. I would take longer than that just in trips to Home Depot.
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nice work // you turned that around really quick
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Its hot! I put a fire grate in it and some fire.
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The propane tank and quick release gizmo are missing so the gas assist dont work, for now.
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Heres the pic I missed of the screws.
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I'm considering flipping the screws so the heads are on the out side. Probly wont do that til I rotate the whole shabang so the sweeper blades dont hit the burner....hey I was in a rush what can I say :o
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Pop rivets may work well too. I've used em on several grill mods
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The lid thermo and my grate thremo are reading about the same, close enough for what Im doing.
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So its ready be sanitized properly now that its hot.
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No time for playing, this stuff is a meat equivalent of dynamite.
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Done! Got a couple extra crispy but most of it was bite through.
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Wow. Impressive all the way around.
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Got too busy screwing around on this post and screwed up some dogs I had laying around...
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Got too busy screwing around on this post and screwed up some dogs I had laying around...
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Damn it @Hell Fire Grill! I'll let it slide since your franken performer seems to be having no problems holding/hitting high temps!
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Wow. That is a phenomenal Rescue/restore. Well done!
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It choked out from 350ish to almost nothing in about 30-40 minutes. Ill block off the burner tube to stop some of the air.
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What a great job!!!! Good to see that you put work into bringing this SS back.
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Absolutely brilliant.
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Good work, what a great idea!
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Great save!
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Wow that's a creative and extremely practical repair. If you'd prefer to have something a little more oem, I have a blue ss bowl in extremely nice condition that you can have.
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Holy shit man. That is the coolest thing I've ever seen
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Fantastic repair job. Really impressive work.
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HOLY SHIT @Hell Fire Grill you are amazing. What did you use to cut out the black kettle?
@MikeRocksTheRed
That complement is a bit over stated.
I cut the kettles with a peanut grinder and a cut off disk that has a really narrow kerf. You can see it in the pic with the donor kettle section removed.
Thanks
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nice work // you turned that around really quick
@TexasOnion Thanks for this. I busted my butt trying to replace the rotten section by noon, because I didn't want to invest alot of T&M. Unfortunately the last screw went in at 12:15. It took the rest of the day to clean and reassemble. If I 604ed it I'd be working on it til some time next week.
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Wow that's a creative and extremely practical repair. If you'd prefer to have something a little more oem, I have a blue ss bowl in extremely nice condition that you can have.
@pbe gummi bear Thanks for the offer Lawrance!
I think I'll leave it alone since this transplant is so unique.
Dont trash that kettle though, its got a ton of possibilitys in another project.
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Man, you screwed-up ;) … Nice work, dude. :D
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@ hell fire grill paint the bucket holder black / that' ll draw attention away from the black ring showing
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Now I'm going to get it dirty so the next guy that gets it has to clean it up.
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Hell yes HFG! What a fantastic rescue!
And the pic above is just perfect with the PBR 8)
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And away we go...
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Its dirty now!
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Hell yes HFG! What a fantastic rescue!
And the pic above is just perfect with the PBR 8)
Now that you point that out the red & white blend nicely with the blue.
Thanks 604!
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Nicely done 8)
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Thanks Ron.
Im controlling the heat with the top vent only. The lowers are wide open. There's a screw keeping the sweeps from closing correctly. Its holding 300ish without a problem.
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The weathers perfect here today, I might go for a bike ride while this is cooking. That would be a recipe for rain....
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Now I'm going to get it dirty so the next guy that gets it has to clean it up.
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how much is a 24 pack of PBR where ya live ?
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Now I'm going to get it dirty so the next guy that gets it has to clean it up.
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how much is a 24 pack of PBR where ya live ?
About 8-9 hours.
$15 on "sale".
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So far so good eh?
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Damn dude! Good job on the fix !
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A couple more progress pics...
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SMELLS LIKE SOME PORKWEBER GOODNESS NOW!!
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Wow. Impressive all the way around.
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Time to refuel.
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Stuff it.
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A quicky several minutes later.
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I'll check the internals in a half hour or so...
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You gonna make swiss cheese pork out of that ??
I figured with all that meat, and your meticulous temperature control … aiming for precisely 226.66°, it would be done sometime Thursday afternoon. :o ;D ;)
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aint got no holes in it yet...
but im eating one of them at @6:00 weather it pulls or not, and that'll be the last time you see my butt today...
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They finished right on time.
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What an amazing repair job, great work!!!
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@Hell Fire Grill ... RRR to the nth degree. Congrats !!! SJ
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Today I got busy and welded the donor grill to the blue...in the correct position this time. It aint pretty but it came out nice and tight fitting. The next owner can modify it to his liking, all it really needs is the gas assist and it'll grill & L&S for years to come. I have an idea for an alternative gas control that ill tinker with in the next few days, maybe.
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The sweeper blades will wear another hole through the bottom of the kettle before they rust away. I made them out of 1/8" thick angle iron welded to a big fat washer and a pipe going through the kettle, to the handle. Recycled the old handle back to the grill.
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Amazing work. I really like that sweep.
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Impressive all the way around.
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Sounds like you need to get a job as you have way too much time on your hands! LOL. Very impressive!
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Thanks Everyone!
My mistake that sweeper handle is off another grill. I haven't dissected the old drive assembly, with the handle still attached, and reconditioned it yet. The cross bar and other parts are still stuck together for now. Most of it will get recycled into other grills, unless the thumb screw breaks in the process.
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This was a fun project, but Im not spending any money on it to complete it. The donor grill was saved from the garbage truck so it was free and all the other parts I made from used junk (read it Im cheap). Further restoration will have to be done by the proud new owner when they buy it, there's plenty tinkering to be done cleaning it up more and replacing the gas assist parts that are missing (tank, coupler, & regulator). I think a little high temp paint, to prevent rust, would be appropriate for this project.
It works perfectly and with a minimal amount of care, but more than before, it'll cook for 25 more years now.
There is a shiny red grill project already in the works, but it looks like I need to get a job instead.
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In order to get the T&G working I used some pieces from an old weber gasser, I have another old dead ditched gasser someone left just off a forest road near the north east part of Mt.St.Helens.
I cant leave garbage lay in a place like that so its been laying in my scrap pile for a few years now. I guess the forest seemed like the ideal place to store a gasser that got ran over by a semi, to someone...but not me. The junk lives now.
This regulator and hose came off the abandoned gasser.
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The little brass dohicky between the hose and the elbow came from the manifold off a weber gasser. The orifice and elbow are original.
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And for fun I tryed the regulator off an old Go Anywhere gas grill. The cylinder was a tight fit next to the coal bin so I went with the abandoned an unwanted parts instead. Its pain in the back side for a fat boring ol'fuck like me to reach in there and screw withe the gas anyways.
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The sparker already worked when I got the grill.
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Im messing it up good for the next guy.