So I just joined the other day hoping to get some input on my restoration of this J kettle I just picked up for $20. Not sure how far I'll be able to get with it, but my main goal is to get it functional again. Anything else is just a bonus lol.
I chucked the charcoal grate, going to see if I can clean up the grill grate to a usable state as it's much more heavily constructed than the grate on my OTS.
The ash pan is pretty beat up, probably going to replace it with an OTG catcher.
Inside the kettle is pretty crusty obviously.
The old sweeper is gone except this rusted up nut, which I removed.
A couple of the leg sockets are rusted out. Going to hopefully get a buddy over here this weekend with a welder to seal it back up at least.
Inside the lid is surprisingly intact.
Probably going to need new wheels, legs are pitted pretty bad from the old pan clips, and the triangle is rusted up pretty good.
The lid and bowl cleaned up pretty easily with a razor scraper, but I'm going to get some degreaser cleaner and see if I can get it all the way cleaned out. Quite a bit of surface rust in the bowl still.
Outside cleaned up pretty good with 0000 steel wool, put a spare OT handle I had laying around on the lid till I can get new wooden handles.
I'll post more pics as the project moves forward!
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