Recent content by Jon Tofte

You are correct that there are some grill companies that sell conversion kits. The one that I know of is Broilmaster. They use valves that work for either fuel type, so just changing the orifices and regulator/line is a relatively easy changeover. On Webers, for whatever reason, this is not the...

GT, please allow me to say that we all want you to feel welcome here. There’s lots of good sharing of ideas & experience as well as encouragement and troves of resources to be found on this board. Unfortunately, you have unintentionally landed in the middle of the most volatile issue that comes...

I am probably one of the less qualified here to answer your question GT, but adjusting the shutter is not the way to go for what you are doing. (I assume by venturi you mean the adjustable piece that makes the air opening at the beginning of your burner wider or narrower.) That piece seldom...

I think the ‘86-‘87s had the wide slats and that they switched to narrow in ‘88.

What a deal on a very early (maybe '88) Weber Genesis: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4112784455600812/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3A98aad1e5-5405-4089-9511-db004b45b683

Very good truth and similar ideas that I have tried to listen to from @Dave in KC who like you knows how to get to the point and move them through his garage. I guess I need to learn how, although I currently have mostly inventory of disassembled grill parts. If I had headed this advice and...

I definitely liked my very similar SS Platinum. It was hotter and hot faster than my x000 grills. Having one of each would be even better, but there goes that collecting (hoardingo_O) bug again!

Yet is the operative word. Maybe in NJ people will pay more, but I am thinking he will be looking at those for a long time. Besides a number of open cart Genesis II grills I was writing about when you posted, I believe I see a nice Skyline in that collection:cool:!

I am sworn off to buying ANYTHING more after going to Illinois to buy my capstone unicorn Vieluxe. But if I ever whittle down my collection of older grills for flipping before I am too old - or dead - to do more, I think I would leapfrog from x000 to Genesis II grills. To do those right means...

I do use those as well, whenever possible, if the soft pads don't do the job. On raw cast iron, it is not as big a deal, but since most cast iron grates today are porcelain coated, anything you can do to avoid chipping that off is a good idea. I still have a set or two in reserve of the very...

I appreciate the additional information, Jim. If they were all free, that would make it all the harder to say "No!".

I am afraid that after an unusually mild fall, that your fear of a long, hard winter is all too possible. Maybe we will get lucky again, though!

Very sound warning. I was heading perilously close in this direction. I am more and more aware that I don’t want my sons to have to someday clean up behind me🥲.

Me, too…

I have to admit I have no experience or expertise, but your idea sounds very doable to me.