Got nervous when I saw some other grills from my craigslist get posted while I tried to arrange pickup for this one put ended up with no issues. The ad text was pretty honest, stating "The Weber needs some cleaning / scraping to get it usable." This small picture of it assembled is what was posted in the ad.
I responded shortly after it went up, and seller wasn't available to pickup until this afternoon. Many of you know the cold fear of a score that you can't pickup for another day.
It was only about 20 minutes away, so I headed over this afternoon. He wasn't kidding. Major porcelain loss around the handle welds and one rim of the lid has lid rash where it looks like it was frequently put down on cement or asphalt, to the point where the metal is rippled and no longer a nice straight round edge.
The bowl is missing about a baseball sized section near one of the handles, but other than a couple other small missing porcelain nicks, is in pretty good shape and the leg sockets and welds are in very good shape.
The one touch system is shot and needs to be replaced (if anybody has the part number handy I'd appreciate it-I hope this isn't the discontinued one), and the ashpan is wobbly and a bit misshapen but it was there. The grates are in pretty good shape. Charcoal has started to have some thinning and minor bending, but should work fine for at least a few years to come, and the cooking grate had a little surface rust but I think will clean up well.
Something about it spoke to me though (and I was there), and even though I hemmed and hawed a little bit, I asked if he could knock $5 bucks off his price. He said sure and I paid him and put it in the trunk.
$10, with two unopened bags of Kingsford blue and an off brand chimney. The bags are the small 8.6 ones but those are perfect to take to a tailgate, and the chimney is going to just join the dedicated tailgate package (I have 3 Weber chimneys for home).
I'm going to clean it up, but even clean, it'll be a cooker not a looker. It's my 4th redhead (2 18s and 2 22s-don't tell the GF!) and the one in the worst shape, but something about that is liberating. I'm not going to care if I do pizzas in it or bang it around some because I really feel like I rescued it and am going to return it to service (the neighborhood it came out of and the way it was on the curb, I think it might have been destined for a scrapper if I or somebody else hadn't bought it within the next few days). In my view, even if it picks up some crazing or a few other dings, it won't be any worse than how it has lived its first 28 or so years (pretty sure it's a J code). I've got a disassembled performer that needs some help (lid bale rotted and pulled a hole through the bowl and one of the lid straps rotted off) that I might try taking the ash catcher off of for this.
The really funny thing? My dad in his retirement does some gasser flipping to stay busy and we picked up a 2 burner on Monday from the redhead's next door neighbor! Literally! I wonder if neighbor 1 told neighbor 2 that he sold his grill on craigslist and that prompted that listing! As we followed the GPS I thought we were going to be seeing the same guy!
Topic: Picked up a new Redhead to rescue (Read 4178 times)