A cure for Puckerbutt.

[Craig]

What's Puckerbutt? It's a disorder that infects Smokey Joe's and Jumbo Joes much the same way that Caddywampusness infects full size kettles. The cure, offer $20 when they are asking $60 on CL.  Apply a little dose of flathead Preparation S, a good bath and a rubdown, then decide what finish to order a new handle in (haven't done that yet) and voila. A cured SJP and a grail found for a great deal! Happy Ending all around.

This thing I think had more dust and grass clippings on it than anything. Maybe used 2 or 3 times. It's a DU code (2002) the grate has no rust. Of course it had a couple scratches on the front of the bowl from falling over (wonder why it fell over?) Oh and the lid bale and tuck n carry bar were attached wrong so you couldn't utilize the lid bale function. This came up Monday night, picked it up Tuesday. Offered $20 he said yes.


"It's in the back of my truck" well my grocery getter....



Garaged for disassembly and inspection... The legs being installed this way caused a dent in the bottom of the bowl..



After a quick bath and a reassembly I posed it with its red sister.




Cooked on it that night. Grilled it up BIG TIMES with some "steaky's"from Omaha Steaks that we got as an anniversary gift. No I didn't paint the inside of the bowl or bleach the grates.  Sorry forgot to take food pics.

[1buckie]

  "What's Puckerbutt? It's a disorder that infects Smokey Joe's and Jumbo Joes much the same way that Caddywampusness infects full size kettles. The cure, offer $20 when they are asking $60 on CL.  Apply a little dose of flathead Preparation S, a good bath and a rubdown, then decide what finish to order a new handle in (haven't done that yet) and voila. A cured SJP and a grail found for a great deal! Happy Ending all around."

"Cooked on it that night"



   What a Grillfella thing to say.............you're the one, man.......happy birthday, you'll have one sooner or later.........

[G$]

Yup yup

[landgraftj]

Nice save Craig!

[Duke]

Nice work as usual. 

[Chasing_smoke]

Nice save Craig!

[1911Ron]

Good rescue!

[G]

Nice save Craig....I picked up one with a wood handle for another member this week.   The legs were installed correctly though.

[Thunder71]

That before pic made me laugh out loud, looked like the kettle also had 'puckerbutt' lol.

Glad it found a good home.

[1buckie]

 Ok, Ok......think about this.......


  Not to be steppin' out in defence of the daffy, but maybe, just maybe the reason people put the legs on these things all puckerbutt-like is a subliminal vision of the WSM dancing in their heads......

Here's a pic of Ken's new WSM getting ready to cook up some swell p. pork & ABT's:



Here's the cookup:

http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/food-pr0n/first-use-of-wsm/


it just struck me that the angle and position of the legs looks a lot like a mis-assembled Smokey.......or......maybe I'm just one of the daffy?