OLD 26 found...

[Jeff]

damn Craig...that DOES sound a bit disturbing.  LOL   Keep that in mind Brian when you do your first cook on Grandpa....he's getting good and hot for you...

[zavod44]

Hey Jeff I straightened out the lid and bowl so now they both fit nice.  I got the top vent all cleaned as well.

Brian

[Jeff]

Thats great...its shapin up nicely now.  Its gonna be a good cooker.  We need to find you a charcoal grate that doesnt sit too high since that cooking grate since lower than a 22 does.  Looking forward to seeing the cleaned up vents and the re-attached ones on the bottom.

[landgraftj]

I agree with Jeff...give him a good cook or two and see what happens.

[zavod44]

Grandpa will be in action tomorrow, if if doesn't rain all day.  What about a 18" cooking grate for the charcoal grate?  I'll have to go measure the charcoal grate on the Fleetwood,

Brian

[Duke]

  Keep that in mind Brian when you do your first cook on Grandpa....he's getting good and hot for you...

That's just wrong on so many levels.

It's just hard to believe it's raining there. It's 80 here right now and we had a garage sale.

I may just head to the beach on monday.

[zavod44]

The hurricane finally made it's way up the Mississippi valley and we are getting a little rain here.  Usually whenever there is a hurricane that comes ashore in New Orleans we get it a few days later.  We got horrible rain here from Katrina.  It was 97 here on Friday.  We haven't had rain all summer we need all we can get.

Brian

[Duke]

97 and then rain!

Hot weather rain is always weird. No wonder Grandpa's so rusty!

[zavod44]

No it was 97 yesterday, only like 75 today and rainy...midwest weather

Brian

[Heyjude]

Gramps should get cleaned up, and cook on those special occasions.. Then spend the rest of his life watching after the young-uns..

[zavod44]

Agreed!

Brian

[Jeff]

Is Grandpa working today???

[zavod44]

 I took him apart to get the vents re-attached and in the middle of all that, a bunch of people popped in so I got taken away from my most serious work.  I wasn't able to gt him back together before dinner with all the people around.   I found a different triangle form another 26 that wasn't so bent up.  The front hook on grandpa is so bent I need to do some serious work to it if I want to use it.  I have a 26"  triangle from a 1985 and they are identical.  I also found my 26" ash pan so he will be whole again. Tomorrow he will be back in action for the first time in who knows how long....

Brian

[Duke]

I took him apart to get the vents re-attached and in the middle of all that, a bunch of people popped in so I got taken away from my most serious work.  I wasn't able to gt him back together before dinner with all the people around.   I found a different triangle form another 26 that wasn't so bent up.  The front hook on grandpa is so bent I need to do some serious work to it if I want to use it.  I have a 26"  triangle from a 1985 and they are identical.  I also found my 26" ash pan so he will be whole again. Tomorrow he will be back in action for the first time in who knows how long....

Brian

Nice!

[Duke]

Here's Brian M's Grandpa.





I think it's funny there are only two of these known around and the owners are both named Brian.