My first Weber Referb


 
MikeGarman

MikeGarman

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I already had two grills at the house but the price was right and I bought it just because I have a Weber performer and always wanted a Weber gas grill. This one was a learning curve, but it came out alright. Not perfect, but good for a first go. Learned a lot about orifices and natural gas vs propane. I didn't realize it was NG when I bought it. Heck, I didn't even open the lid until i got it home. Took a little bit of time and some love, but cleaned it up, and figured out how to tune the orifices (after buying 3 sets) for the temp range I wanted. The original orifices would not allow below 280 with a single burner on low. Now it runs between 225(low and slow) and 550(pizza). The following pictures are the before and after.

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You did a great job! I will have to admit that other than the flavor bars and end caps, the grill was in very good shape to start. Almost as if it wasn’t used much and kept in a garage. Still you cleaned it all up and made it like new.

How did you obtain the Grill?
 
Not sure why you had orifice trouble. They're either sized for proper flow or not. On yours being it was NG originally if you get PROPERLY sized LP orifices it will run quite hot on low/med. If you get orifices that will run nice temps on low/med than they're not sized for full flow at high setting. The issue is the valves.
 
BillSmith said:
You did a great job! I will have to admit that other than the flavor bars and end caps, the grill was in very good shape to start. Almost as if it wasn’t used much and kept in a garage. Still you cleaned it all up and made it like new.

How did you obtain the Grill?
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A neighbor up the road had it it on the curb for sale. After it sat there for a few weeks I made him a insultingly low offer and a week after that he told me to come get it, he just needed it out of his garage.
 
THyde said:
Did you paint the inside of the cookbox?
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I went up the street to get my paint from Lowes. The inside of the box was painted with a 2000 degree high temp Rust-oleum flat black. The outside and frame was painted with a 600 degree Semi-Gloss. These were the only two choices they had. I did not realized until after I finished the project that Home Depot sells the 1200 degree semi-gloss rust-oleum or I would have bought that instead. I was a little hesitant about paint in the box so 24 hours after it dried I hooked it up and let it run on all high for an hour.
 
LMichaels said:
Not sure why you had orifice trouble. They're either sized for proper flow or not. On yours being it was NG originally if you get PROPERLY sized LP orifices it will run quite hot on low/med. If you get orifices that will run nice temps on low/med than they're not sized for full flow at high setting. The issue is the valves.
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Let me clarify now that I read my original post again. I was going to convert to propane until I hit that problem you mentioned with running hot and realizing I need to change the valves as well. Decided to keep it NG and get it working that way. I figured after I got it working then I could get new valves or a full manifold and convert it to LP. Got it working great as NG and thought about stopping there until a little redhead 1000 (already propane) that needed some love caught my eye. I had fun referbing this one so I decided to part ways with this grill today to a friend who had a need for a decent grill, and have the redhead move in next week. His old grill could incinerate a burger on one side of the grill and freeze it on the other with the same knob positions. This also provided a fix for my newly discovered habit...errr...hobby. Like I told Bruce in another post. I don't have a problem.....I can stop working on these at any time :-)
 
MikeGarman said:
I went up the street to get my paint from Lowes. The inside of the box was painted with a 2000 degree high temp Rust-oleum flat black. The outside and frame was painted with a 600 degree Semi-Gloss. These were the only two choices they had. I did not realized until after I finished the project that Home Depot sells the 1200 degree semi-gloss rust-oleum or I would have bought that instead. I was a little hesitant about paint in the box so 24 hours after it dried I hooked it up and let it run on all high for an hour.
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Just as an FYI you're really not supposed to paint inside the firebox. Most here just clean the inside some with a wire cup brush. Good work, just don't paint the inside of the fire box. Fumes and all.
 
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