Matt-FattMede
New member
First and foremost, I want to thank all the contributors to the forum. I thought about maintaining lurker status as I move on from this project, but the resource your posts provided in making this a reality were invaluable and credit is due.
I started looking for a new grill at the beginning of winter and my price point kept climbing and I kept getting more and more confused. I wanted something that I wasn't going to have to replace every 18 months more than anything else and a nice to have would be if it didn't look like it came out of an industrial kitchen. I found this forum trying to research the newer Spirit and Genesis models and stumbled across a rehab thread in the process. I was instantly in love.
I got the grill off CL a little over two weeks ago for $90 dollars. Owner got it as a gift for his 50th birthday in Feb of '99 and it appeared to be relatively well maintained. I replaced the wheels, casters and ignitor (it was still operational, but the housing crumbled on me as I removed it from the FB). Some of the original wood had been replaced and what was left was starting to rot, so I figured better to replace it now than later. Could have salvaged all but two bolts, but opted for SS as this will hopefully be my primary grill for a long time to come. The burners seem to be in okay shape as well as the grates and flavorizers (however I did keep trying to justify pulling the trigger on RCP products throughout this process and likely will eventually). The grates were easily the toughest part to clean up and likely my biggest mistake as you can see from the missing back right bar...turns out cast iron is more brittle than I gave it credit for as I was trying to chip away at gunk.
Anyways. Thanks again. I would still be tearing my thinning hair out in my basement trying to figure star nuts for the cross support and how to re-attach the logo if it weren't for this site.
I started looking for a new grill at the beginning of winter and my price point kept climbing and I kept getting more and more confused. I wanted something that I wasn't going to have to replace every 18 months more than anything else and a nice to have would be if it didn't look like it came out of an industrial kitchen. I found this forum trying to research the newer Spirit and Genesis models and stumbled across a rehab thread in the process. I was instantly in love.
I got the grill off CL a little over two weeks ago for $90 dollars. Owner got it as a gift for his 50th birthday in Feb of '99 and it appeared to be relatively well maintained. I replaced the wheels, casters and ignitor (it was still operational, but the housing crumbled on me as I removed it from the FB). Some of the original wood had been replaced and what was left was starting to rot, so I figured better to replace it now than later. Could have salvaged all but two bolts, but opted for SS as this will hopefully be my primary grill for a long time to come. The burners seem to be in okay shape as well as the grates and flavorizers (however I did keep trying to justify pulling the trigger on RCP products throughout this process and likely will eventually). The grates were easily the toughest part to clean up and likely my biggest mistake as you can see from the missing back right bar...turns out cast iron is more brittle than I gave it credit for as I was trying to chip away at gunk.
Anyways. Thanks again. I would still be tearing my thinning hair out in my basement trying to figure star nuts for the cross support and how to re-attach the logo if it weren't for this site.
