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I am officially ready to break some stuff. I was doing some final assembly stuff on a Silver B I was wanting to list tomorrow. Realized I forgot to put the grease tray rails on, and on the last one, the head of the bolt snapped off. So now I am thinking I get to take it all back apart. Super annoyed right now.
 
I am officially ready to break some stuff. I was doing some final assembly stuff on a Silver B I was wanting to list tomorrow. Realized I forgot to put the grease tray rails on, and on the last one, the head of the bolt snapped off. So now I am thinking I get to take it all back apart. Super annoyed right now.
That's super annoying. Were you trying to reuse old bolts?
 
That's super annoying. Were you trying to reuse old bolts?
Yup, and they were in really nice shape. I am thinking that maybe this cookbox was one of them that only used a single screw in the middle. But they all went in pretty tough, but never did I think it would break the screw. I wasn't twisting it hard at all. I figured I need to walk away from that issue and try to fix it tomorrow, with a fresh start.
 
I must say, after drilling that broken bolt out, it is incredibly satisfying watching a sharp drill bit go right thru the center of a broken screw as it pushes off helical shavings of steel. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Still a frustrating extra step, but I was able to learn something from the ordeal.
 

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I have a set or two of those. They really cool grates. A couple years ago, they were on sale for much less and the ones I have are billed as 10mm
Yeah. It’s one of those things that I wish I could tell Amazon to tell me when they’re on sale. Or maybe I shouldn’t? lol.
I would think that at that size and triangle shape the middle rod wouldn’t be necessary and they could be more reversible.
 

 

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