Here is the 26 that "with a K" picked up for me, and that AZ_Mikey transported. I did not want to spend a significant amount of time on clean up because it will soon get heavy use anyway. I did get the bowl spotless inside. I cleaned the sweeper assembly, and all the leg hardware was already in good shape and just got a wpe down. I took the thermo out and cleaned it, but i did not even take the lid bail off.
For whatever reason, the inside lid on this thing just did ot want to come clean, even after a few hours of oven cleaner. It is nothing more than cook smoke, but i have never seen such a persistent and even coating. I eventually just called it "good" and moved on. I did not even clean and polish the vent.
The last thing was the bent lid handle. I gave it a pull to straighten it out "left to right". The other direction reqired some gentle hits. I got it close to straight and then realized the bracket itself was a little bent. Not wanting to cause more chipping, I have called it good enough. It looks fine unless you look close and see the kink in the bracket itself.
Lastly, I swapped firepit handles on to it. I am not a huge fan of them, but they look best on the black kettles, and i think it looks pretty sharp.
Here are a couple before shots:
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