Yeah, Long story short, I sprayed one of the sockets with WD40 of my new-to-me grey fade 22.5 (courtesy of Brian) and it made two black streaks on the bowl, well, I tried dish soap, nothing... so I tried the Pam treatment, the finish returned to its black roots, so I did the entire thing.. It's not AS black as my 2012 OTS, but much blacker than it was when I got it. Even when I did two heavy wash downs with dawn dish soap after and it still stayed black. If it lightens back to grey from heat and cooking, we'll have to see. I like it grey, but it looks neat black too. I'm happy to have a MBH black/grey 22.5 finally in the stable. Brian also did the new whitewalls on the wheels which are awesome. This kettle has the BAR-B-Q-KETTLE/Patent # vent, old style plastic wheels, but larger dual bowl tabs.. Estimation age year.... 1975
Here it is in a rush re-assemble when it arrived on Friday... I temporarily used metal hubcaps.
Here it is back in black. We'll see how long it stays black,
Brand new walnut stained handle. The original handle was so dry rotted, it split in two when I barely picked at it.
The '75 Texan hanging out with The '78 Warrior.. Interestingly, the black kettle sits a little taller than the brown one..