@SmokenJoe put me on the trail of this 2nd gen for $35, talked the guy down to $25 and drove an hour to get it on Saturday. HUGE THANKS to him for giving me the heads up! I owe you one buddy!
Had to disassemble it to fit into my car, took a little under 10 minutes thanks to my cordless drill.
Got it home, since I had it apart anyway I started cleaning it up piece by piece.
Only damage was this spot where I'm guessing the lid was hot and was set on the lower rack, and resting on the plastic. Might try sanding it down later on.
The wheels cleaned up pretty easy, repainted them satin black. The whitewalls aren't taking paint so easily, so I'll have to strip them and start over. If that doesn't work I may have to get a new set from Uncle Al
Got the easy part done
The lid vent was tweaked and didn't seal right on the lid, so I ended up drilling out the vent rivet so I could take it off and straighten it out. Replaced the rivet with stainless hardware.
Cleaned up the burner tube as much as I could
Replaced the crappy little clip for the charcoal bin tether with an aluminum carabiner I had laying around.
Lid cleaned out better than the bowl did. I scraped the hell out of it, and scrubbed it out with barkeepers, but I just couldn't get the bit around the rim of the bowl. This is gonna be my new daily driver anyway, so i'm not really concerned with a little residual carbon lol
Polished all the stainless hardware that shows
Cleaned up the charcoal grate off my OTS and threw it in this, then put a new top grate on it as well.
Cleaned up the thermo and mount, tried to polish them but there are still some fine scratches showing from the steel wool. Will probably work on it more in the future.
All cleaned up and ready to cook some dead animals!
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