TonyS T-Bone
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Picked up a Weber 5000 NG this weekend, perma-mount, original owner. I have been hunting a long time.
The unicorn has an interesting provenance: The owner lives about 2 minutes from the original Weber factory (now the Weber parts store I was told). He wandered in at closing one day, saw it and wanted to buy it; it was a display model, and he was able to get it at a great price. The Weber guys lifted it up onto a pickup, followed him home, and delivered it for his house. He had the manual in pristine condition. The 5000 has maroon stripes on the gray lid, but there are white stripes on the smoked doors. Maybe it was mismatched at the showroom? IDK.
He couldn't remember the year he bought it but said 25 years probably. So maybe the 5000 is mid 90s? I recall that was the era when Weber switched the way serial #s were assigned? Serial starts with PMN (for permanent mount I am guessing). Of course I can't make out the next 4 digits. I think I read something about this change in the Forum on "Deciphering serial numbers."
Wood Slats are shot, but lid, cookbox and side panels are in great shape but SS internals on their last legs. Has all the swing table hardware, no rust except the usual cookbox bolt area. Burner has a bad valve or something, knob was melted. I haven't started the forensics yet hopefully its an easy fix, like a spider nest clog.
Would really like to convert it back to a wheeled chassis, it looks like all I will need is to scavenge a 3 or 4000 frame.
Anyway here's some pics:
The unicorn has an interesting provenance: The owner lives about 2 minutes from the original Weber factory (now the Weber parts store I was told). He wandered in at closing one day, saw it and wanted to buy it; it was a display model, and he was able to get it at a great price. The Weber guys lifted it up onto a pickup, followed him home, and delivered it for his house. He had the manual in pristine condition. The 5000 has maroon stripes on the gray lid, but there are white stripes on the smoked doors. Maybe it was mismatched at the showroom? IDK.
He couldn't remember the year he bought it but said 25 years probably. So maybe the 5000 is mid 90s? I recall that was the era when Weber switched the way serial #s were assigned? Serial starts with PMN (for permanent mount I am guessing). Of course I can't make out the next 4 digits. I think I read something about this change in the Forum on "Deciphering serial numbers."
Wood Slats are shot, but lid, cookbox and side panels are in great shape but SS internals on their last legs. Has all the swing table hardware, no rust except the usual cookbox bolt area. Burner has a bad valve or something, knob was melted. I haven't started the forensics yet hopefully its an easy fix, like a spider nest clog.
Would really like to convert it back to a wheeled chassis, it looks like all I will need is to scavenge a 3 or 4000 frame.
Anyway here's some pics:
