Here's one my brother found for me. He's stationed out in Arizona, and shipped it out for me. This was a while back around my birthday, so this one wound up being a present. All I know of it's history was it was found on Facebook, my brother called the lady and said he could be there in 5 minutes. A few weeks later and it's found a new home in NC.
It came in pretty rough shape: a few chips, a little crazing, super gunky, and filled with ash. It also seemed to be used to burn some weird stuff. As I went to clean it, there seemed to be some fabric burned to the inside of the lid, and down on the grates some sort of melted metal, like lead or aluminum. Who knows what was burned in there?! I usually like to restore the grates and keep everything original, but given everything I found in there, I thought it best to just replace them all.
It was also missing the ash pan, so I made one for it as seen in this post.
http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/weber-kettles-accessories/diy-flat-edge-ash-pan/msg199202/#msg199202 On to the pictures!
Before:
Here's the worst of the damage, all the other welds on this, and the other sockets are fine.
After:
As always Brian's handles make all the difference!
Under the skirt. Now that I've found Bar Keeper's Friend I might go back and get rid of all the staining around the sockets.
I know the white hubcaps aren't correct, but I just like the look of 'em
Thanks for looking!
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