Looking for a glass door from a Genesis 5 or 5000


 
Bruce

Bruce

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I picked up a really nice Genesis 4/5 today and the seller wound up breaking one of the doors trying to help me load it. I am hoping maybe someone has some doors maybe similar to my case where one got broken and still have the two other and is willing to sell me one.
I am willing to wait to find a donor grill, but it would be nice to get it back to complete before I start rehabbing it. I think all three doors are identical, but if not, it would be left most door as you are facing the front of the grill. Here is a photo of the grill before the door was broken.
Thanks,
Bruce


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If push came to shove you could simply buy a piece of tempered glass from a glass shop. Then simply attach the hinges/brackets on to it and voila.
 
Yah, but this grill is too nice to have a U/I piece of glass on it. The original are smoked and have the pin stripes.
 
LMichaels said:
If push came to shove you could simply buy a piece of tempered glass from a glass shop. Then simply attach the hinges/brackets on to it and voila.
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I went through this with a camper shell that had a broken side window. Tempered glass can't be cut because it will shatter. The glass is cut first, then sent for out for tempering. They don't just temper a single piece of glass, so the glass is tempered as a batch. It wasn't terribly expensive, just took about a month or 6 weeks to get it done.
 
Bruce said:
Yah, but this grill is too nice to have a U/I piece of glass on it. The original are smoked and have the pin stripes.
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You could do the pin stripes with sandblasting or etching. They sell kits for etching glass online...never done it, but it doesn't look too terribly difficult. On paper you could buy a piece of smoked glass, have it tempered and etch/sandblast the pinstriping, but it sounds like a PITA.
 
I would never try to etch tempered glass. Recipe for disaster. Slightest change in surface tension and it will "explode". Doesn't take much. IDK if the glass is etched for the stripes or if they're painted on. If painted on, piece of cake. As for the tint. Also easy for a glass shop to match
 
Bruce said:
I picked up a really nice Genesis 4/5 today and the seller wound up breaking one of the doors trying to help me load it. I am hoping maybe someone has some doors maybe similar to my case where one got broken and still have the two other and is willing to sell me one.
I am willing to wait to find a donor grill, but it would be nice to get it back to complete before I start rehabbing it. I think all three doors are identical, but if not, it would be left most door as you are facing the front of the grill. Here is a photo of the grill before the door was broken.
Thanks,
Bruce


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Nice Bruce Im glad someone here got this one ! That sucks about the door ...
 
If nothing else pans out for you, shoot me a DM. I have this set that I bought on eBay over the summer to use as an upgrade on my 3400 awaiting rehab since the hardware on these is in much better shape. I’d have to dig these out of storage and uncover the 3400 in the boneyard to make sure everything is the same as I had hoped, so I can’t promise any sort of a fast turnaround, but I have no plans for the glass I’ll be removing when the time comes.
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I have already had a couple member reach out with possible solutions to my glass problem. So, I am confident that is no longer a real issue.
This is probably going to be one of my first rehabs next spring. Thanks everyone for the kind comments and encouragement and thanks Jon and TomRC for helping with the glass problem.
 
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