Morning Dave!
Wanted to let you know I went to Harbor Freight yesterday, my first time ever! What a little wonder world that place is, WOW! I picked up the angle grinder, and a few disks, and a package of different wire brush wheels for my drill, and some socket extensions to help get the bolts inside the cookbox loose so I can remove the burners on the NG cookbox, as someone tightened them down instead of sliding the burner ends underneath them.
While looking around the store, I ran into a old coworker and we started shooting the breeze, and he asked me what I was buying tools for. I went on to tell him I recused 2 old weber's from a mutual coworker, and this guy just rolled his eyes, as he knows the guy I got grills from is a junk collector. He then proceeded to ask me questions about my retirement and if my pension was paying like we all hoped it would while working...I explained that I do fine, and no complaints, and he hit me with a bombshell.."Mary, do you need money to buy a new grill?" I proclaimed NO...I want to rehab this grill, it's giving me something to do, I'm totally enjoying myself!
A little back story here: when I was working, there was only 3 woman in my division. I was the cook for about 50 guys.
Our crew room had a kitchen, and outside of it a patio area with a Weber Summit. Once a week, I would cook a lunch meal for everyone.. and on my 45th birthday, I was given a Kirkland SS huge grill comparable to a summit from the guys. They named it the " Menopause 2000". They delivered it to my house and put it together on my enclosed deck. Funny, at the time no one thought about about that when built, it would not fit through the door way, to go on the patio! I've used it twice on the deck, inviting the crew over for 4th of July party, and again for a Labor Day party for them... cleaned it up both times, spotless and back to new. That's all she's ever been used in 11 years. She sits on my enclosed deck and looks good, only because I'm afraid she will catch my carpeted enclosed deck on catch fire or carbon monoxide poisoning will take me out.
So she just sits, looking all pretty, and waits for either the Pope to come over for dinner, or the second coming
of Christ.
Now, back to Harbor Freight..
I paid for my stuff, and was walking to my truck, and this guy approached me saying he heard me talking to the guy about re-habing a Weber grill, and asked me if I wanted a nice hood to a Weber, as he was on his way to the dump and he had it with him...so I walked over to his trailer and he had a nice green genesis hood, not like I needed another green hood, but I took it... and I also scored a couple 3 marble slab counter tops, that he said were cut too short and too narrow!
SCORE!!! They looked to be the perfect size for my cart table I plan on making with the NG cart!
So THANK YOU for telling me about Harbor Freight, had you not mentioned Harbor, I would have gone to Sears, where I always buy my tools, and missed out on the marble slabs!
After I finish my cup of coffee, I'm headed out to the yard to start painting my first coat of paint!
Thank you again for walking me thru this project!
Mary