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I think everyone should get a WSM and cook on it a bit. Its a great cooker and the cost of entry is low to try one used. If I were doing larger cooks for more people ( there's a few here that come to mind ) I'd still have a WSM 22.

Same for a pellet. Pellets are great for convenience, but for me, I did side-by-side cooks using my Pellet, WSM and BGE and the pellet did not win on taste. I think I could have worked at it to make it better but timing was right so I sold it. Maybe some of the pellet smokers do better than my pit boss. Its hard to compare when I can't taste what others are cooking over the the internet.

After I retire if I could find a stick burner for free or cheap, that would be fun. Until then I just keep trying to up my game. This place has helped a lot with ideas and inspiration of others. I'm a visual learner so a few pics work great for me. Still waiting for smell and taste to be digitally reproduced.
 
Cody Bratton said:
Steve, you appear to be coming out of semi-retirement, lol, or are the Gold's catching your eye a bit more now?
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There's a few things going on here with me on that. The first Genesis Gold literally fell into my lap, I wasn't looking for one. I enjoyed working on it and I think it's a very nice grill, plus my intention was to use it. It is now too nice to use and for some reason there are tons more of these same grills listed around me. It's like it's fate for me to branch out a little so why not? I may do another restoration thread on this grill because it may just show how far I will go to get it right, including buying a donor grill to get parts to replace substandard ones like the drip tray or control panel. My version of Weberitis is the attempt to make each individual grill look and work like brand new. That being said, my new goal will be to make THIS Genesis Gold my new everyday grill because I really want to try one out since I am starting to really like that model. We'll see what happens after I get it home and evaluate it.
 
Steve Hoch said:
There's a few things going on here with me on that. The first Genesis Gold literally fell into my lap, I wasn't looking for one. I enjoyed working on it and I think it's a very nice grill, plus my intention was to use it. It is now too nice to use and for some reason there are tons more of these same grills listed around me. It's like it's fate for me to branch out a little so why not? I may do another restoration thread on this grill because it may just show how far I will go to get it right, including buying a donor grill to get parts to replace substandard ones like the drip tray or control panel. My version of Weberitis is the attempt to make each individual grill look and work like brand new. That being said, my new goal will be to make THIS Genesis Gold my new everyday grill because I really want to try one out since I am starting to really like that model. We'll see what happens after I get it home and evaluate it.
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I can tell by your posts and past grills, that your pride is in the details. I absolutely commend that. I like the small details myself. Like the tank scales. I am bummed because I don't have any REALLY nice tables. I have some pretty nice, and pretty rough ones. I want to do a more museum piece (to sell) silver B so I am on the watch for tables.
 
Cody Bratton said:
I can tell by your posts and past grills, that your pride is in the details. I absolutely commend that. I like the small details myself. Like the tank scales. I am bummed because I don't have any REALLY nice tables. I have some pretty nice, and pretty rough ones. I want to do a more museum piece (to sell) silver B so I am on the watch for tables.
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The details are what drive me crazy. Have you tried soaking those tables in bleach and dish detergent?
 
DanHoo said:
I think everyone should get a WSM and cook on it a bit. Its a great cooker and the cost of entry is low to try one used. If I were doing larger cooks for more people ( there's a few here that come to mind ) I'd still have a WSM 22.

Same for a pellet. Pellets are great for convenience, but for me, I did side-by-side cooks using my Pellet, WSM and BGE and the pellet did not win on taste. I think I could have worked at it to make it better but timing was right so I sold it. Maybe some of the pellet smokers do better than my pit boss. Its hard to compare when I can't taste what others are cooking over the the internet.

After I retire if I could find a stick burner for free or cheap, that would be fun. Until then I just keep trying to up my game. This place has helped a lot with ideas and inspiration of others. I'm a visual learner so a few pics work great for me. Still waiting for smell and taste to be digitally reproduced.
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My life changed the day I traded into a WSM18!!!! Sure, there was a bit of a learning curve - the main reason I ended up over here - but once the smoke bug bites you, there is no going back. I was happy to pick up a kettle (nice performa!) to supplement the WSM for smaller cooks and it actually does as well - sometimes better - than the WSM. I've converted over from hot and fast grilling to low and slow smoking almost exclusively now.

Mr Moriarty stopped bye last week and actually shamed me into giving my WSM a deep clean for the first time in almost 5 years --- the amount of build up on the lid is pretty bad - grease/creosote sluffing down the walls and 'gluing' the lid onto the barrel during cooks gets pretty annoying.... I viewed the build up as a badge of honor, but the time has come to start fresh again.

A stick burner is totally on my 'want' list because I think it would be fun, but the reality is that I don't need anything THAT big and it would be more difficult to feed it wood on a regular basis. I'd be better served with a WSM 14.... or a cheap pellet smoker with the way charcoal prices are going.
 
Steve Hoch said:
The details are what drive me crazy. Have you tried soaking those tables in bleach and dish detergent?
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Yeah. I did a long soak in a higher concentrated bleach last night for a few hours. I didn't add dish soap though so I will likely give them another shot. I am still going to try sanding and using a plastic polish on a couple of the better looking ones. Most of them have the faded look or deeper cuts, grooves. Like the ones on the hodge-podge of parts FrankenFlipper I did. But the woman (wife's coworker) I sold it to said she is fine with it, and it photographs well. Her only stipulation was as long as everything was thoroughly cleaned/sanitized she didnt really care about the appearance of the tables. So I gave her a bit of a discount since it isn't pristine in that sense. But every bolt, nut & screw has been cleaned and painted or replaced with SS.
 
Cody Bratton said:
Yeah. I did a long soak in a higher concentrated bleach last night for a few hours. I didn't add dish soap though so I will likely give them another shot. I am still going to try sanding and using a plastic polish on a couple of the better looking ones. Most of them have the faded look or deeper cuts, grooves. Like the ones on the hodge-podge of parts FrankenFlipper I did. But the woman (wife's coworker) I sold it to said she is fine with it, and it photographs well. Her only stipulation was as long as everything was thoroughly cleaned/sanitized she didnt really care about the appearance of the tables. So I gave her a bit of a discount since it isn't pristine in that sense. But every bolt, nut & screw has been cleaned and painted or replaced with SS.
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I wouldn't worry about fading on those tables since they all weren't the same shade of gray to begin with and nobody is going to notice it unless you mismatch tables. The plastic polish idea could be interesting though, let us know if you have success with that.
 
Steve Hoch said:
I wouldn't worry about fading on those tables since they all weren't the same shade of gray to begin with and nobody is going to notice it unless you mismatch tables. The plastic polish idea could be interesting though, let us know if you have success with that.
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I grouped them together by shade, lol. But I have zero curved tables in half decent shape. That’s why I was happy about getting a couple of the “Spirit” B’s for the black end caps and those plastic bins.
 

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Cody Bratton said:
I grouped them together by shade, lol. But I have zero curved tables in half decent shape. That’s why I was happy about getting a couple of the “Spirit” B’s for the black end caps and those plastic bins.
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Most of what you have there looks really good anyway and I completely understand about picking up grills for parts. You can always put the parts grills back together with the parts you are replacing and still make a couple of bucks flipping them.
 
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