Vacation score 2 Red Heads

[Bluesman]

Scored this while on vacation in Northern Wisconsin. A pre 79 with two lids $25 and a 95 Master Touch $30. The MT came from the guy who owns the cabin and the other from the resort owner. So I was fishing for Red heads this year..............



The restoration and rescue starts Sunday................

[G$]

Those are great.  My favorite weber is my Red MasterTouch!

[glrasmussen]

Great score and great prices! Those will clean up might fine.

[1buckie]

Tremendos Red, G$ !!!

The above scores look pretty good too!!!!


gotta wonder what happened to the bell on the 2 lid deal......but it's nice they saved it.....

[1911Ron]

Nice score!  I wonder if the wife would be miffed if i went kettle hunting in Hawaii?

[pbe gummi bear]

Nice reds. It's hard to say which I like more!

[Craig]

Helluva deal!! Nice job on bonus lid! Can't beat that.

[Golly]

nice catch
get them cleaned up and post some more pics

[javahog2002]

Very nice looking redheads.  Very nice price too.   

[Bman]

Nice score!  What part of Northern WI did you find these?  I'm from the Minocqua (and north) area and check CL since I still have family agents in the area.

[Bluesman]

I was in Hayward on Nelson Lake. These weren't on CL they were hiding and I sniffed them out...............

[Jeff]

Hey Bluesman...nice scores.

I just got back from NW Wisc myself.   I stay around Spooner.  I was in Hayward 2 weekends ago.  I scored a couple reds myself.  1) a NIB red weber lantern for 5 bucks at a garage sale
2) a rescued 18.5 red, metal side handles, 3 wheeler.  It was at another garage sale too.  It was off to the side of their little house, not even for sale.  I asked about it and the owner said, "oh, this was with the house from the previous owners when we got it.  It was rough with chips, filthy, missing two vents on the bottom.   I rescued it for 5 bucks.  It has the old plastic wheels on it.  I'm gonna clean it up a bit a post it and see if a fellow member wants to take it on as a rescue/rehab mission.

[Craig]

Hey Bluesman...nice scores.

I just got back from NW Wisc myself.   I stay around Spooner.  I was in Hayward 2 weekends ago.  I scored a couple reds myself.  1) a NIB red weber lantern for 5 bucks at a garage sale
2) a rescued 18.5 red, metal side handles, 3 wheeler.  It was at another garage sale too.  It was off to the side of their little house, not even for sale.  I asked about it and the owner said, "oh, this was with the house from the previous owners when we got it.  It was rough with chips, filthy, missing two vents on the bottom.   I rescued it for 5 bucks.  It has the old plastic wheels on it.  I'm gonna clean it up a bit a post it and see if a fellow member wants to take it on as a rescue/rehab mission.

Nice! Look forward to pics of it. BTW, welcome back! 

[Jeff]

Thanks Craig!

[Bluesman]

Update: restoration has begun on both kettles:
1.) Both disassembled-check
2.) What needs to ordered from Weber-check
3.) 2 legs sets, charcoal grates, cooking grates, sweeper assembly, ash bucket handle-check
4.) new wood handles from Brian-Check
5.) New SS hardware-Friday
6.) Finish Statesman pre-clean and then final clean on both - Thursday
7.) Clean wheels and repaint whitewalls on Statesman-Friday
8.) Clean rust and coat-Friday
9.) begin to assemble-Friday and Sunday
10.) New covers - Friday
11.) Post pictures of the entire process - Sunday
12.) Git Dirty - Tuesday