Peter Park
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Hi everyone. It’s been a while posting but I was waiting to post about my next restoration - here is my second ever fully restored Weber gas grill.
Photos of the end product first: this has been a 1.5year+ long project balancing between busy work life and whatever spare time I had outside of just life stuff. Only recently got into a groove as the grill looked more and more complete.
Now, some background and progress photos. Wish I had taken more “before” photos.
This is a product of two Silver B grills, mainly due to the rust on the first grill’s frame that would have required too much labour and time to salvage. The first grill was a curbside freebie that was otherwise in fair condition.
I actually did try to salvage the first frame - took as much of the rust off as I could then thought I could somehow cover it with a step flashing then paint everything black. I had no access to welding equipment nor did I have the expertise. With every restored grill comes failed attempts in some steps.
At this point I gave up and managed to find another freebie Silver B with a much less rust-damaged frame. While the first grill was LP and came with all the tank scale and other LP-related parts, it was also from the post-2002 generation of Silver B while the second grill was pre-2002 and NG. I decided to go NG for the final product.
Got all the lid sides and cookbox sandblasted at a local sandblasting service then went to work with the paint. The grates, flavorizer bars, burner tubes, igniter and drip tray were all new from Amazon aftermarket but the rest were restored including the bottom basket, manifold and the thermoset tables.
(I hit the photo limit, see first comment for continuation of my post)
Photos of the end product first: this has been a 1.5year+ long project balancing between busy work life and whatever spare time I had outside of just life stuff. Only recently got into a groove as the grill looked more and more complete.
Now, some background and progress photos. Wish I had taken more “before” photos.
This is a product of two Silver B grills, mainly due to the rust on the first grill’s frame that would have required too much labour and time to salvage. The first grill was a curbside freebie that was otherwise in fair condition.
I actually did try to salvage the first frame - took as much of the rust off as I could then thought I could somehow cover it with a step flashing then paint everything black. I had no access to welding equipment nor did I have the expertise. With every restored grill comes failed attempts in some steps.
At this point I gave up and managed to find another freebie Silver B with a much less rust-damaged frame. While the first grill was LP and came with all the tank scale and other LP-related parts, it was also from the post-2002 generation of Silver B while the second grill was pre-2002 and NG. I decided to go NG for the final product.
Got all the lid sides and cookbox sandblasted at a local sandblasting service then went to work with the paint. The grates, flavorizer bars, burner tubes, igniter and drip tray were all new from Amazon aftermarket but the rest were restored including the bottom basket, manifold and the thermoset tables.
(I hit the photo limit, see first comment for continuation of my post)
