My first attempt at restoring a Gold B, thanks to all the tips in this forum and other places. We grilled bratwurst, hot dogs, and other sausages on it to "inaugurate" it. This is my very first propane grill, the 2 you see in the background are a charcoal grill and an offset stick burner smoker. I was curious about the taste of propane grilled sausages versus charcoal, there is definitely the convenience factor involved with having the propane grill ready to go in 10 minutes from "lets do it", but its lacking a bit of the smokiness flavor I've gotten used to for so long. I'm still definitely keeping this around for convenience alone but its unlikely to replace my charcoal/wood ones.
This is the condition that I received this in
I swapped the grates for a set of cast iron ones I salvaged from another unsuccessful Genesis Gold I picked up, after taking the whole thing apart completely, I washed it all, scraped out the cook box and lid, and took a wire wheel to places that I could not scrape clean by hand. After everything was nice and dry, I repainted the exterior of the cook box and end caps with high temp spray paint, repainted the entire frame with flat black regular spray paint, added new burner tubes and flavorizer bars, changed out the cook box hardware to stainless, added never seize to all of the bolts, and put it back together. The s/n was too worn for me to read so I have no idea what its age is. Do I have the grates on backwards?
This is the condition that I received this in
I swapped the grates for a set of cast iron ones I salvaged from another unsuccessful Genesis Gold I picked up, after taking the whole thing apart completely, I washed it all, scraped out the cook box and lid, and took a wire wheel to places that I could not scrape clean by hand. After everything was nice and dry, I repainted the exterior of the cook box and end caps with high temp spray paint, repainted the entire frame with flat black regular spray paint, added new burner tubes and flavorizer bars, changed out the cook box hardware to stainless, added never seize to all of the bolts, and put it back together. The s/n was too worn for me to read so I have no idea what its age is. Do I have the grates on backwards?
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