Well, I jumped into the Kettle game, slightly on accident. We already had a Weber Genesis gasser and a Go-Anywhere gasser. I just felt the urge to get a regular kettle and I was lucky enough to have my wife score me a 26.75 OTG for fathers day of 2014. From there...things went pretty fast. I fell in love with charcoal cooking and was doing what we all do, surfing the net looking at bbq "stuff" That is how I landed here. Then I started to scour CL every few days as I decided I wanted to get a 22.5 OTG to compliment my larger one. I got pretty lucky and found one that I posted before for 25.00. I have since replaced the cooking grate and just yesterday ordered a new charcoal grate as both have a reasonable amount of rust. I am guessing the prior owner didnt really know how to control the fire and often used water to tame it, causing the rust and deterioration of the grates. I still need to replace the front leg of the 22.5 to make the restoration complete and I am tossing the idea of modernizing the handles to have the built in utensil hooks.
Then...for Christmas, I scored the 22.5 WSM (I know this isnt TVWB). For me, this really completes my Weber collection at this point. My next project will be to build all of these into an outdoor cooking area/kitchen on our covered patio. I have some ideas, but I need to enlist some help to make this happen.