Genesis Silver B Restoration - From Japan to Texas


 

Chris in TX

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Restoring a 2000 Genesis Silver B with Maroon Lid

This grill was purchased in 2000 at a Navy Exchange in Sasebo Japan. It served for 2 tours in Japan and 1 tour in Washington before the serviceman retired. Then he brought it to Texas some years after that. I picked it up in the DFW area off CL for free this Aug and I hope to give this grill a new life since it has a cool history of being around the world!

I will post more of how I got to looking at older Weber grills in my next post. But for now here is a picture from the CL ad and a n after shot. I will include more after pictures on page 4

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Cost:
Grill - Free
HF Nylon Cup (Get the wire cup), Gloves, Tarp - $5
AZ High Heat Metallic Paint - $13
Cleaning Supplies (Did not help) - $7
HF Wire Cup Kit - $9
Ear Plugs - $6
Sand Paper - $3.5
High Heat Primer - $8.5
Scrape Blades - $2
JB Weld Extreme Heat - $9
Steel Wool - $1
High Heat Black Paint - 8.5
Screws Bolts Nuts - 7.5

Total: $80
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I like to grill and be outside a lot. I have another grill that I picked up used for cheap and lasted me for 8 years! I keep it under a patio and covered so things tend to last a while that way. But this summer the flavorizer bars fell apart and the grate started to also. So I figured it was time to get a new grill. I found a great deal on a pellet grill and picked it up but ran into issue (I kept hearing Hank Hill saying "Propane Bobby!" in my head as I was dealing with the pellet grill issues.) Working in electronics I decided that I wanted my grill to not use electronics and be simple....turn on and light. So back to gas I decided to go.

My search led me to craigslist and I started seeing some older grills. It impressed me that you could restore them and make them like new again. I thought about restoring my current grill but it is not a Weber and after doing research figured that would not have as good of a return or feeling. (Actually I found this site and saw all the Weber grills and really wanted to get one of the older models!) So I figured I would wait until something popped up this winter and pickup a weber somewhere. Then this post happened:

I came upon a 2000 Genesis Silver B for a great price......FREE!!!!!

Now I have never done a restore before but I wanted to give it a try. Plus I found out the cool back story of this grill being purchased in Japan and it seemed like it was meant to be. So far I have taken it apart and there is years of wear on it. Some rust which I will do my best to get rid of.

I will try to document everything that I do and what works/fails along the way.
Plus I wanted to put out here how much I spent in the restore process in case others look at doing the same thing.

So Lets Get Started!

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When I got the grill home the first thing I did was start the disassemble process. This was not as hard as I thought it was going to be.
The lid was already removed because we had to do that to get it into my van!

Start by getting a box and putting everything in it that you are saving that is not big! (Plus little plastic baggies to put screws in.)
Here is my box. I have the side table, burners, controls, wheels, and screws all in this box.

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I do recommend reading several of the other restoration projects on here as they will help with thing they ran into.
For the box I did not remove all the screws and tried to stick to the ones on the outside of the box that connected it to anything. This worked out pretty well (but the main one that hold on the frame appears to have broke!) So here is what I took outside to start working on:

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I purchased some cleaning supplies thinking they would do the trick with a Nylon cup brush I had purchased. Don't waste your time on the cleaning supplies or the nylon cup brush, go straight to the wire brush kit. The nylon cup brush went on my drill and I don't think that had enough RPM. I picked up a kit that has two diff cup brushes and a couple other wire brushes. Worth the money!!!
Oh and if you don't have a angle grinder....get one! (I will note here that you need to make sure you have a high rpm angle grinder. I used a cordless but found out it had about 1/2 the rpm as some of the plug ones. This is why I had to use the twisted wire and it took longer. So this is something to think about if you are purchasing an angle grinder.)

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I started sanding down the frame of the unit removing everything from it (tank holder, and braces.) I was going to remove all the bolts of the frame and sand it piece by piece but I ran into some rust problems when I took the box off. So it really needs a new frame and since I do not weld of have the tools I decided that this was best to keep in once piece. I am going to spray a rust converter on the frame for now and see how it turns out. Using the wire cup on the frame make things nice and smooth. It did not stip it like I thought it would but that is ok:

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More to come!
 
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Next it was time to clean the cook box and lid.....THIS IS MESSY! Prepare yourself as you will be covered in gunk. But it is neat to see something so bad looking and turning it into something newish again. It takes some time to get it all shinny. I used my angle grinder again on this with the cup brush (Twisted Wire followed by the crimped wire. )
Here is what it looks like as you are doing it. You can see I have got the right side shinny and working on the rest of it.

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Tonight I was hoping to finish all my grinding and getting everything ready for paint but we had a storm come in and it made it impossible to work on the back porch. So I decided to try and clean up my lid. Figured the best place to do this since I could not be outside is the shower. It actually worked pretty well. I used a scrapper for the inside (make sure you have good blades to save time. Trust me on this one.) and steel wool for all areas after it was clean.. There are a couple of scratches but nothing bad on the lid. It is now stored away until I get ready to put everything together.

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The next step I may have got ahead of myself a little. I should be working on filling the hole in the cook box but I really want to get some pieces painted up. So using the wire brush I finished cleaned up a lot of the pieces and brought them inside. Then I wiped them all down with some rubbing alcohol (I heard of people also using acetone.) Make sure to have a tarp or something that can get paint on it for the area you will be spray painting.

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Once everything was clean I let it dry out and then started my first layer of paint. I am going to use a primer on all my parts as the final coat is a black metallic and does not match the original color. You don't have to use a primer but I wanted an ultra high heat base and Rustoleum had a great one. On the end caps and a couple other pieces I will wet sand the primer before the color coat. The other pieces I will just be wiping down to make sure they are clean.

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After that I added another black high heat paint on the primer. If you have have wire marks lay 2 coats of primer, wet sand, another coat or primer, sand, black after that. I wish I would have done that as the swirl marks so up. I did a mix of black and then the metallic on the upper part of the fire box.

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After everything was painted I started to put everything back together and clean the plastic. I wanted to paint some of the plastic but will hold off for this time. Not a huge fan of the gray and would like them to be black also. :) I was able to get a screw that fit the hole and make a perfect hole in the jb weld!

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But here it is all put back together!

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I am looking forward to seeing photos of the restore. I suggest you don't clean it up too good though. Leave a few traces of that Japanese dirt on it for posterity sake.
 
Cool Story and welcome to the forum. Looking forward to seeing your restore. One thing on your rebuild when taking the grill apart the two bolts at the end of the burner tubes on each side should be left alone. The burners will slide out from under them, you might have to clean some gunk out first. Some people have successfully removed them but most of the time they will snap off and now you have a real problem. Those bolts are just used to align the burners not hold them in.
 
Bruce,
I may have to leave a little somewhere. :) Not sure as this thing is pretty dirty! HA

Rich,
I left those on but I think something went south with the bolt on the other side holding it into the frame. I will get a picture once I am done getting everything cleaned off.

I have to say that this is already really addicting and I can see why some of you guys have many grills. It is fun to work on them and not to difficult. :)
 
COwens. You are right. It doesn't take three years of schooling to do grill rehabs. It would be nice to have some welding experience and equipment, but other than that, the average guy with normal garage tools can tear these down, clean them up, fix them up and put them back together easily. The more you do, the easier it gets.
 
Bruce,
It would be nice to have some welding experience and tools, I am finding that out. But I will say that it is very time consuming and dirty! I think the frame gave me a false sense of this being easier than it was going to be. Then today I started on the box that appears to have had some original cooking on it. HAHA

And you see these? I blame them on your guys because no one ever warned me that I would get so dirty that going to change a battery in my angle grinder would leave foot prints in my house! (If this ever happens vacuum it first and then clean. Most of it comes up with vacuum.)

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I have some photos of myself after a round of grinding out a cookbox. With the safety glasses removed, I look like a huge raccoon.
 
I can see that!!! I took a shower and still had some under my eye area where the glasses were. That stuff is messy!

On a side note. How clean do you guys get the outside of the cookbox for painting? All shinny or just knock the stuff of. Also the same question for the inside. This is my personal grill and I am not planning on selling it so I was not sure how clean I should be getting it.
Also it appears I have a dent on the side of the cook box and it has caused a small crack. Is that something I should worry about and if so how should I fix it? (Will get picture in a bit.)

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I cannot really see the dent/crack. But, you should be able to use some extreme high temp JB Weld to fix the crack.

If it is going to be your personal grill, all I would do is scrap it out on the inside with a putty knife and call it a day. If you want to spruce up the outside, you will likely have to paint it. To do so will necessitate either cleaning it up extremely well and removing any loose or chipping paint. In your case, I suggest using the angle grinder and wire cup brush to take it down to bare metal on the outside and hit it with some Rustoleum High Temp black matte paint. Same deal with the lid end caps, but I use the Rustoleum High Temp Ultra Satin paint for those.

The lid can be cleaned down to the shiny porcelain with some #0000 steel wool, a razor blade scraper and a cleaner such as Simple Green on both the inside and out. But, again, if it is going to be your personal grill, skip the inside of the lid. It, like the inside of the cook box will just get gunked up after a few cooks anyway.

Oh, and after going back and looking at your second picture, it looks like someone put a wire grate inside the cook box. That should not be there unless you want to use charcoal in the grill which I have heard that some people do after the burners and flavorizer bars fall apart, they just convert it to a charcoal grill. Uggggghhhh!
 
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Thanks Bruce!
I saw that info in another post after posting and was fixing to run to get some steel wool.
The grate is just inside the cook box to hold my stuff outside while storing it until I work on it again. :)
 
If this thing did not have a story of being over in Japan I would probably look for another one to restore and use it for parts.
The rust on the frame, crack/dent in the firebox, and not my fav color lid (I really like the bright blue!). But I can't give up on this one!

Here is the crack/hole. Not pretty since cleaning it up. :| This pic is before I got it shiny but you can see the issue.
Is it too bad to keep going or will the JB high heat hold it?

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Never saw a crack on that spot in the cook box before. I think you will be OK with the JB weld. I used it on my personal Genesis 1000 and it is holding up fine. But my hole wasn't quite that big. Mine was about the size of a pea and no crack.
 
Never saw a crack on that spot in the cook box before. I think you will be OK with the JB weld. I used it on my personal Genesis 1000 and it is holding up fine. But my hole wasn't quite that big. Mine was about the size of a pea and no crack.

Which JB Weld did you use? There is a High Heat Epoxy putty and a extreme heat mix (that looks like it would be hard to get to stay in place.
Since it is my personal grill I am not worried that it does not look perfect. It seem like when it got dented (which is right there also and pushed outward) it cause the crack issue.
 
I used EXTREME HEAT JB Weld. It comes in a small container. 18 months later it is still holding strong.
 
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FWIW, with gas grills, the hole really won't be a problem. More of an aesthetic thing. On the cook box itself, might have some bad news for you. The original finish has texture to it. To date, I can't recall anyone having successfully duplicated it. Since you've taken it down to bare metal in some spots, you might just want to go ahead and grind away on the rest of it. Reason being is that the smooth/versus textured thing is kind of pronounced after a repaint.
 
Davew - good to know the hole will not be much of an issue. I am going to try the job weld and see how she turns out.
Yea I have made it all smooth (or making it all smooth in some places that I am still working on.) I used the knotted cup brush as I could not just the stuff to remove with the other. When I was talking with Bruce about it we checked my angle grinder and I think that is the issue. I need more power! (I think that is always needed for most things!)

I will post a new pic of the cook box tomorrow or thursday when I get it all cleaned up.
 
Look at that shiny cook box! Do I have to paint it? It looks so good. :)
Also got the emblem off the lid. That was a lot harder then I thought it was going to be!

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No I will not be painting the lid. I could tell it was not paintable.
I still have to clean the lid up.

But the cookbox is so shiny silver looking it will be hard to paint. Is there a reason you use a diff color with the bottom cookbox and the rest of the grill (sides of the lid and frame?) I noticed you used a satin on the other parts and flat on the bottom?
 

 

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