Jon Tofte
TVWBB 1-Star Olympian
Well, I decided it was way past time to deal with some of the problems in my life, one extra ugly one being an accumulation of hopeless project grills that there was basically zero chance I would ever do anything with. So, I buried my pride and paid one of the young guys in our maintenance department to help me clear out my mess and start the process of purging and turning over a new leaf. There were several real "winners":
#1 A half-rusted "stainless" large grill. I didn't pay anything for it and never really wanted to mess with it. It wasn't hard to kiss it goodbye as it slammed into our scrap metal pile:
#2 My impulse $100 purchase "Snap-On" grill. This seemed like another easy way to flip my way to some quick profit.
Unfortunately, I bought it literally in the dark. Closer examination began revealing just how rusted out this thing was. Then I discovered that the prior owner removed the large drip pan for the main (left) part of the grill. It probably disintegrated. The smaller one on the right was still there, but looked rough. Without the pan, grease had spilled and burned its way all over the inside of the grill. Good luck replacing this part - or any part. No manual and no schematic that I could find. It became obvious this was a loser...I scavenged the "Snap-On" logo (cheaply made) and the unique parts from the front that made the grill look like a Snap-On tool box. The rest went to the scrap yard:
My new plan to salvage something from this debacle is to try and integrate these parts with a much better straight-up grill. A stainless Genesis 300 series comes to mind. Paint all the gray parts Snap-On red and substitute the salvaged parts for the doors. This would be a much better grill, and if I could keep the Snap-On "look" it might be salable at a small profit. (I will post an alternative idea separately.) At least I have some hope remaining, so I won't let this get to me too much...
#3 (&4) UGH!! Before joining this forum, I dropped $200 on a rust-bucket, current generation Summit 6-burner NG grill. Back then, I thought it would be "no big deal" to fix the rust and before long be at the helm of the Starship Weber Summit. My Captain Kirk sized dreams soon dissolved when I realized just how much it would cost to do all this. So I parked the thing in my yard to gather rust. You would think I would have learned, but even after joining the TVWBB I fell under the spell AGAIN! This time, I blew another $100 to get a SECOND 6-burner rust bucket, an LP version.
I reasoned that I might be able to "combine parts" and wind up with one usable LP grill (NG is useless in our area). So, I hauled this piece of junk to our shop and disassembled it. That's when I learned a lot more about ugly stuff like firebox "burn-through" and just how heavy and over complicated these bloated monsters are. The parts have been laying in our shop for a year and a half. It was time to face my dumb decisions and move on. So we piled all these parts in the scrap yard as well. I did save a few parts, but more on that later...
So, it was hard to do. I hated to have to admit that I had been fooled again...at least my organization will get a few cents from the scrap metal recycler.
The change it had to come
We knew it all along...
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Pete Townshend
I really do hope I don't get fooled again!
#1 A half-rusted "stainless" large grill. I didn't pay anything for it and never really wanted to mess with it. It wasn't hard to kiss it goodbye as it slammed into our scrap metal pile:
#2 My impulse $100 purchase "Snap-On" grill. This seemed like another easy way to flip my way to some quick profit.
Unfortunately, I bought it literally in the dark. Closer examination began revealing just how rusted out this thing was. Then I discovered that the prior owner removed the large drip pan for the main (left) part of the grill. It probably disintegrated. The smaller one on the right was still there, but looked rough. Without the pan, grease had spilled and burned its way all over the inside of the grill. Good luck replacing this part - or any part. No manual and no schematic that I could find. It became obvious this was a loser...I scavenged the "Snap-On" logo (cheaply made) and the unique parts from the front that made the grill look like a Snap-On tool box. The rest went to the scrap yard:
My new plan to salvage something from this debacle is to try and integrate these parts with a much better straight-up grill. A stainless Genesis 300 series comes to mind. Paint all the gray parts Snap-On red and substitute the salvaged parts for the doors. This would be a much better grill, and if I could keep the Snap-On "look" it might be salable at a small profit. (I will post an alternative idea separately.) At least I have some hope remaining, so I won't let this get to me too much...
#3 (&4) UGH!! Before joining this forum, I dropped $200 on a rust-bucket, current generation Summit 6-burner NG grill. Back then, I thought it would be "no big deal" to fix the rust and before long be at the helm of the Starship Weber Summit. My Captain Kirk sized dreams soon dissolved when I realized just how much it would cost to do all this. So I parked the thing in my yard to gather rust. You would think I would have learned, but even after joining the TVWBB I fell under the spell AGAIN! This time, I blew another $100 to get a SECOND 6-burner rust bucket, an LP version.
I reasoned that I might be able to "combine parts" and wind up with one usable LP grill (NG is useless in our area). So, I hauled this piece of junk to our shop and disassembled it. That's when I learned a lot more about ugly stuff like firebox "burn-through" and just how heavy and over complicated these bloated monsters are. The parts have been laying in our shop for a year and a half. It was time to face my dumb decisions and move on. So we piled all these parts in the scrap yard as well. I did save a few parts, but more on that later...
So, it was hard to do. I hated to have to admit that I had been fooled again...at least my organization will get a few cents from the scrap metal recycler.
The change it had to come
We knew it all along...
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Pete Townshend
I really do hope I don't get fooled again!
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