Jon Tofte
TVWBB 1-Star Olympian
A while back I picked up the first half of my long-standing idea to create a custom Skyline 2-burner grill. It was the easier part, a pretty decent late Silver A with black knobs and trim. The cabinetry isn’t perfect, but it isn’t a rust bucket like many others I have seen.
Then I was on the lookout for a Skyline 2-burner. I found a nice one, but it was almost three hours away. Finally, I caved in and did a Saturday road trip to get it. It was in nice shape, very clean although the wire brushing in the firebox and on the old porcelain plated flavorizer bars was a little crude.
Things have been filling up my life with two remote jobs, tax returns (October 15 deadline) and trying to get many things fixed in the house we bought. In between I have been working on getting my workshop setup and usable. All that has left no real time to DO anything. Hopefully that will change soon.
In the meantime, I wanted to post this thread to show the interesting differences between the older 2-burner and the very last Silver A.
The most notable improvement to me is the increased height from about 29 1/2” to about 33”. That may not sound like a lot, but the convenience for someone like me (6’ - 1”) or taller is a welcome change.
Then, the later Silver A like this one offers a fold-down table much like its bigger brother Silver B. This is a step up in “luxury” features that the early 2-burner grills declined in favor of a stripped down basic design.
My plan is to install the Skyline hood on this late Silver A body along with some other minor custom features, hopefully including an original Weber handle light which should be adaptable to this size hood. Maybe go for GrillGrates as I have no decent grates of this size and I think GrillGrates would be a good fit for a grill with only one row of flavorizer bars and only two well separated burners. I hope to make this my light-duty daily driver for our small family. Should cook well and be a little more frugal with gas than a full-size 3-burner Genesis (or 4 burner 1st gen. Summit
) I hope to ultimately have for heavier duty grilling.
One last comment. I bought a set of Qulimetal stainless flavorizer bars for this grill. They are the real deal with heavy gauge non-magnetic stainless and finished well. Outside of rcplanebuyer, I don’t think you could find a better choice for flavorizer bars for this grill or the larger Silver B/C for which Qulimetal also makes flavorizers of the same quality.
Then I was on the lookout for a Skyline 2-burner. I found a nice one, but it was almost three hours away. Finally, I caved in and did a Saturday road trip to get it. It was in nice shape, very clean although the wire brushing in the firebox and on the old porcelain plated flavorizer bars was a little crude.
Things have been filling up my life with two remote jobs, tax returns (October 15 deadline) and trying to get many things fixed in the house we bought. In between I have been working on getting my workshop setup and usable. All that has left no real time to DO anything. Hopefully that will change soon.
In the meantime, I wanted to post this thread to show the interesting differences between the older 2-burner and the very last Silver A.
The most notable improvement to me is the increased height from about 29 1/2” to about 33”. That may not sound like a lot, but the convenience for someone like me (6’ - 1”) or taller is a welcome change.
Then, the later Silver A like this one offers a fold-down table much like its bigger brother Silver B. This is a step up in “luxury” features that the early 2-burner grills declined in favor of a stripped down basic design.
My plan is to install the Skyline hood on this late Silver A body along with some other minor custom features, hopefully including an original Weber handle light which should be adaptable to this size hood. Maybe go for GrillGrates as I have no decent grates of this size and I think GrillGrates would be a good fit for a grill with only one row of flavorizer bars and only two well separated burners. I hope to make this my light-duty daily driver for our small family. Should cook well and be a little more frugal with gas than a full-size 3-burner Genesis (or 4 burner 1st gen. Summit
) I hope to ultimately have for heavier duty grilling.One last comment. I bought a set of Qulimetal stainless flavorizer bars for this grill. They are the real deal with heavy gauge non-magnetic stainless and finished well. Outside of rcplanebuyer, I don’t think you could find a better choice for flavorizer bars for this grill or the larger Silver B/C for which Qulimetal also makes flavorizers of the same quality.
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. I was just looking at those flavorizer bars last night. Need to buy them now.
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