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Kyle in Woodstock

Kyle in Woodstock

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Have any of you purchased a 26" Weber and when you went to assemble it the lid was not shaped correcly?
The past couple months we've had a couple 26" grills come in and the lid is slightly egg-shaped instead of being a circle. So it doesnt fit snug on the bowl.
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this before. The boxes didn't appear to be damaged either. Very strange.
 
Yeah, I hugged it a little until I was satisfied with the fit. It still leaked pretty good, but after several smokes it's pretty normal now.
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Worse comes to worse if you mess with it and it's still not to your liking, call weber they might send you a new lid.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Shaun R:
Yeah, I hugged it a little until I was satisfied with the fit. It still leaked pretty good, but after several smokes it's pretty normal now.
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Thanks, good to know our store wasn't the only one to get a lopsided one. The two were pretty bad, but our rep just sent us new lids.

This was really just a general question. These were a couple grills we built for customers at the Ace I work at. Just thought it was strange b/c Weber's are almost always free from defect.
 
I can't seem to find it, but I thought I remembered reading a post here about the lids being made just barely out of round, purposely, so that it was easier to move into the lid catcher position...when I got mine it was like this as well, but I liked the fact that it just sort of slid off to the side and I didn't have to lift, because with the added weight that would get pretty annoying pretty fast. The downside was of course a less than perfect seal, though.
 
I had to tweak mine just a little, took about 5 mins total time to fit like a glove.
Going to mount my 26er like a performer.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Noe:
I had to tweak mine just a little, took about 5 mins total time to fit like a glove.
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What do you have in mind?
 
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Dan W:
I can't seem to find it, but I thought I remembered reading a post here about the lids being made just barely out of round, purposely, so that it was easier to move into the lid catcher position...when I got mine it was like this as well, but I liked the fact that it just sort of slid off to the side and I didn't have to lift, because with the added weight that would get pretty annoying pretty fast. The downside was of course a less than perfect seal, though. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

That's interesting and I've never heard of that. We've only seen 2 of about 50+ come thru with the egg shaped lids. These could not have been done on purpose. When you try to place the lid on the bowl there was about a 1-2 inch gap on each side of the grill, no seal at all.

The new lids that came in were perfect and fit like a glove!
 
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