Jon Tofte
TVWBB 1-Star Olympian
In spite of Hurrican Dorian, which has slowed my gas grill work to a trickle, I was able to finally finish a little restore of a '99 red One-Touch Gold. It was all there when I got it but needed a lot of the old parts replaced. I paid $60 which was too much, but oh well...
Here is what it looked like when I picked it up:
Here are a couple other BEFORE pictures after I got it home:
I did this grill restore for the youth and music pastor of my church, so I went overboard and of course made no money
! But, it was fun and I learned a little more about older kettles. One big problem was trying to restore and re-use the metal bracket that attaches to the one touch sweep and holds the round ash pan holder in place. The replacement ash sweeps you buy now are made for the newer type holder that doesn't have the bracket but instead attaches to the grill legs with metal prongs. It was a challenge, but I made it work.
Here is the finished product before our pastor picked it up. I did some patches where the porcelain was chipped off. I tried to carefully tape so that the high heat dark red caliper paint would only be on the raw metal and NOT on any of the porcelain. I know many kettle collectors prefer that it be left alone, but I wanted it to look nicer. You can obviously tell where the repairs were made, but in an overall look I think it is better this way:
I put to good use one of the grates I picked up at last fall's Target discount sell-off:
Here is what it looked like when I picked it up:
Here are a couple other BEFORE pictures after I got it home:
I did this grill restore for the youth and music pastor of my church, so I went overboard and of course made no money
! But, it was fun and I learned a little more about older kettles. One big problem was trying to restore and re-use the metal bracket that attaches to the one touch sweep and holds the round ash pan holder in place. The replacement ash sweeps you buy now are made for the newer type holder that doesn't have the bracket but instead attaches to the grill legs with metal prongs. It was a challenge, but I made it work.Here is the finished product before our pastor picked it up. I did some patches where the porcelain was chipped off. I tried to carefully tape so that the high heat dark red caliper paint would only be on the raw metal and NOT on any of the porcelain. I know many kettle collectors prefer that it be left alone, but I wanted it to look nicer. You can obviously tell where the repairs were made, but in an overall look I think it is better this way:
I put to good use one of the grates I picked up at last fall's Target discount sell-off:
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