I will just leave this here


 
Steve Hoch said:
Where did you find those?
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A craigslist post. I didn't buy those, those are what he still has left. Apparently he buys pallets of liquidation stuff. This one had Weber goodies

I got two nib burner sets, 2 silver B handles and a 1000 Durawood handle. I was walking out and he was like, oh hey, this one is different... It was the durawood one, so I swapped out for that one.
 
OK, I am confused. Not uncommon, but I need some help getting my brain back on track.

I picked up a free Spirit E210 and looked at the data sticker on it. What it is telling me is that it has a 2000 manufacture date. I know that cannot be right as these came after the Silver A/B grills. The serial number starts with DD which says 2000 to me. I assume it is using the "AUTHORIZED" date code scheme....or is that where I am going off the reservation?
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@Steve Hoch
I have decided that I will buy this grill if it's still available when I get back to AZ. In about a month. I'll try to get it for about $100 but it looks great and easily worth $200 to me. My nabor girls both firefighter EMTs are best friends of my wife and I. We have them over almost every day when we are there. I usually bbq for all of us. They love my Jr. and want something similar. I'm going to try to get this and restore it and surprise them with it. Should be an easy project. They watch over my house when I'm not there so I'm happy to gift it to them. Especially since I know they will appreciate it and take care of it.
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Cody Bratton said:
would you keep it durawood? Or swap to wood?
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I would keep it.
For a donation grill it will be great. Personally I like both. In the desert the sun can be hard on the wood in a different way than rain. When kept under covered area they hold up very well there though. One of my Keeper 1000 grills has Durawood and I like it that way. Real wood is one of my favorite parts of these slat table webers. I like vintage things in general and wood and metal is classic vintage to me. Even though they only go back to the 1980s it reminds me of a lot of very old things I love made way farther back when things were over engineered and built right built to last. That is exactly the mentality Weber used designing the first Genesis. I'm just rambling on again lol.
Yes Cody I will keep the Durawood.

I also like vintage tools and vintage solid hardwood furniture. I've built some of my furniture from scratch and a lot of my furniture I have refinished vintage solid hardwood furniture to use. Also enjoy working on vintage tools.

The older I get the more I appreciate the old vintage stuff.
 
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Bruce said:
OK, I am confused. Not uncommon, but I need some help getting my brain back on track.

I picked up a free Spirit E210 and looked at the data sticker on it. What it is telling me is that it has a 2000 manufacture date. I know that cannot be right as these came after the Silver A/B grills. The serial number starts with DD which says 2000 to me. I assume it is using the "AUTHORIZED" date code scheme....or is that where I am going off the reservation?
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That one is too new to use that code. Your grill should be a 2011 model.
 
Bruce said:
Thanks Steve. I guess that explains it. 2011 then. I wonder why Weber decided to change something that was already working fine.
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Yeah, doesn't make much sense to me either and that's not even the only other code they use. To add to the confusion, when you type in a serial number on Weber's site you don't always get the correct year schematic. It's not even always a correct schematic because of year over year changes.
 
So last night I went to town tearing into a couple of my recent pickups. 2 "Spirit" models. The best part is that the bad panels were good on the other, so between the two, I have enough good pieces to make one really nice cabinet. One really nice black lid without fade, one with. One has a floor panel that is still fairly solid, the other one's floor went quickly to the scrap donation (which mostly disintegrated in my driveway). The SS on both is all really nice as well.

I want to put a wire basket in the bottom with the cabinet. I have several extra bottom baskets, both the 'snap down' style that acts as a cross-brace and the simple drop in baskets. The lower panel acts as the hinge locator. I have the little grommets that hold the hinge rod, as well as the little bumpers that help stop the doors from sagging in the middle when closed. I was thinking about bolting the tubes with the threaded insert connectors. But am thinking that the hinge rod and the crossmember bolt may interfere with each other. So that leaves me to welding, which is easy enough for me, but I prefer to paint everything individually and personally think that less welded areas is better for preventing rust. This also poses the opportunity to address the horrible design/effectiveness of the magnets for keeping the doors closed.

So I guess I am coming to the brain trust to ask, has anyone done this to keep a cabinet grill by adding crossmembers and ditching the solid rust trap floor? I have a couple other cabinet grills that I am wanting to do the same thing with. I feel like there are a lot of people that like the thought of having storage underneath their grill. Even if I am not personally a big fan of it.

See @Josh Dekubber, rambling can be normal... lol
 

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