Recent content by Phil Graham

People here like that rcplanebuyer on ebay for flavorizers at about half the cost of Weber's. FWIW, I'm at $315 total on this project. Essentially a new Weber for the price of the Chinese hardware I'm graduating from. I scrubbed mine with simple green and water, then a brass wire brush. Then...

I paid my blasting house an even $100. For as nice as it turned out after blasting, I count it as money well spent. I cleaned a good fraction of the gook off the metal pieces by using simple green and water followed by phosphoric acid cleaner before going to the blasting house. Blasting is a...

Logo fixing That sounds like a great idea, but I don't know how to remove the push nuts holding on the logo without nicking the porcelain. I don't dare attack them with my angle grinder.

Followup post with the finished grill images, as TVWBB restricts the number of images per post. The last couple links are higher resolution for detail: Finished grill 1: Finished grill 2: Finished grill 3: Finished grill 4: Cheers!

As discussed in the thread here, I've been restoring a Genesis 1000 that I purchased for $65.00. This unit had full stainless internals that were in pretty good shape, the lid porcelain looked pretty good, and most of the other bits seemed in reasonable condition. First step was full disassembly...

I too ended up with stainless steel Allen button head screws, stainless washers, and stainless lockwashers. I removed the manifold thumb screws and replaced them with stainless hex head machine screw hardware in the same manner as the lid hardware above. After I drilled out the drip pan screws...

Tony, I'll have a number of after photos. Not sure how many before I took. I'll have to go check my phone. I'll take some of the media blasted castings before I paint them.

Chad, I simply like to be thorough. I don't know that I would cast aspersions on someone else's project without context. Proper cleaning and surface prep insures good adhesion of the new paint. I'm interested in having this grill last another 20 years. To be fair, most of the studs were...

Greetings TVWBB people, Inspired in large part by photo threads I saw on this forum, I am nearing the end of a full restoration of a Weber Genesis 1000 series LP grill. I'm a materials engineer by background, so I've been working to reduce the galvanic corrosion mistakes made in the original...

Greetings, I'm Phil from Atlanta, and I'm in the midst of a full Genesis 1000 overhaul largely inspired by photos of the rehabs that people have done here on tvwbb. I opened a thread here to ask some final questions on finishing the project. Cheers,