Recent content by LMichaels

OK well looking back on the photos I posted of his grill I see I was incorrect. There are no bars. I still don't get all the hand wringing over them though. They're on the underside. I'll lay odds that bar helping to stabilize things is what helps keep the tooling and manufacturing. So perhaps...

Not looking but a video on this thing popped into my feed a couple days ago. And it caught my eye because of the brand "Shardor" and some may recall I was quite impressed with how good a little $35 grinder could do. So I looked up info on it on YouTube, and it looks like this thing is "killing...

I've heard of Reef Supply. And yeah 135 is REALLY low for untreated. Even my softened and filtered water is at least twice as high. And my untreated is close to 500. Having lived in Chicago a large portion of my life I sure know that chlorine smell :D

IIRC there are center bars on my brother's grates Dave made for his 2nd generation Summit

Yeah by it's nature Lake Michigan water is naturally soft, but they do chlorinate the hell out of it. The US Water Systems mineralization filter came today. So, I am going to hook it up and give it a whirl tomorrow. Fingers crossed. I have been experimenting with mixing the filtered water into...

I don't understand the issue with it. Dave Santana explained the need for it. He said it stabilizes the bars and under stress prevents the welds from breaking on the ends

Yes an actual electronic leak detector is a must if you do any type of gas work. They're cheap and work well. Usually under $20

Basically the same thing I bought except in "kit" form :D

On my Wolf I had 2 issues. First the sensing bulb and then the actual valve which is actually quite easy to adapt a replacement. But, being resourceful I disassembled mine and found the "trip" lever's grease had solidified to the point the valve would not trip reliably. So, I cleaned and...

So, first off glad to see you not falling into the trap of the YouTube shysters or EBay shysters. You are going about it correctly. IIRC for some reason (likely only to confound the owner) Weber has different NG/LP burner part numbers. But to the best of my knowledge unless it's the "burner"...

IIRC they were branded as "Charmglow" another of the "founding fathers" brand. Many of them were placed on posts outside the back door of a home in the late 50s and the 60's. and piped onto a flexible copper gas line. IDK if that product was a high quality stainless. It may have been but very...

Honestly? Me too :D

I had to find almost the same part for my Wolf when I could not get the IR burner to work.

We got almost the same thing but the nitrile gloves I found are 8 mil which I thought would work a bit better plus they have a little texture

Yeah, you can bet they were not gonna have custom designed stuff for this