Scott Smith
TVWBB Pro
I am so excited to join this forum. I feel like I have found my people. I've pushed old Weber grills home through my neighborhood. I've driven my kids home with somebody's old grill strapped to the roof of the minivan. I have old and new spare parts stacked in the basement. I have scoured Home Depot and Amazon for those clearance parts and accessories. Currently I have three Weber gas grills on my deck, which is one too many. The one I bought (circa 2002) was actually from Bed, Bath, and Beyond before they started putting all those exclusions on the 20% off coupons.
It feels good to see a community of people that buy good quality stuff and find ways to keep it going. It doesn't take nearly the tools, skills, time, or money to fix up a gas grill that it does to fix up an old car or even a bicycle so a lot of people engage their "I can fix this" ethos and enjoy the thrill of success. With the oodles sold and the Weber and aftermarket support, very few actually need to go to the dump. No gratuitous transistors in the old girls either.
I could nitpick about some of the posts here about "Look at how I restored my grill". Many of these people didn't really restore their grill, they just took care of fixing some issues that they probably should have fixed sooner. I'm all for folks fixing things, but sometimes cleaning and replacing old parts are just a fact of life hardly worthy of posting about on the internet. We could debate that point I suppose, seen this is an internet forum. Some folks genuinely enjoy repainting and taking pictures of their darn grill. Power to them.
I will leave you with one random tip specific to Weber Grills that I haven't seen mentioned in the forums. Avoid cross contamination. Always put your raw meat on the same side of the grill. Always put your cooked meat on the opposite side of the grill. If you have the fold-out shelf, use that one for raw meat so that it can't possibly drip up and contaminate the higher shelf.
I look forward to lots of good reading on the forum!
It feels good to see a community of people that buy good quality stuff and find ways to keep it going. It doesn't take nearly the tools, skills, time, or money to fix up a gas grill that it does to fix up an old car or even a bicycle so a lot of people engage their "I can fix this" ethos and enjoy the thrill of success. With the oodles sold and the Weber and aftermarket support, very few actually need to go to the dump. No gratuitous transistors in the old girls either.
I could nitpick about some of the posts here about "Look at how I restored my grill". Many of these people didn't really restore their grill, they just took care of fixing some issues that they probably should have fixed sooner. I'm all for folks fixing things, but sometimes cleaning and replacing old parts are just a fact of life hardly worthy of posting about on the internet. We could debate that point I suppose, seen this is an internet forum. Some folks genuinely enjoy repainting and taking pictures of their darn grill. Power to them.
I will leave you with one random tip specific to Weber Grills that I haven't seen mentioned in the forums. Avoid cross contamination. Always put your raw meat on the same side of the grill. Always put your cooked meat on the opposite side of the grill. If you have the fold-out shelf, use that one for raw meat so that it can't possibly drip up and contaminate the higher shelf.
I look forward to lots of good reading on the forum!