Need Advice: Interested in acquiring and restoring a rusty 18 WSM

[Tim-wannabe-smoker]

Please use the real Weber grommet, not the faux “Webber” one.

HaHa, okay apparently I cant spell Weber

 

[Tim-wannabe-smoker]

Looking to add a few upgrades in the next couple of months to address the areas I find most lacking on the WSM. Just bought a set of grommets from Amazon to add for the temp probe and also ordered a cool little accessory from Hunsaker that serves as both a temp control holder and a tool rack. Eventually I'd like to add the Wheel and Cylinder Lock Kit from Cajun Bandit and then a lid hinge if I get too aggravated with setting the dome on the ground contuously

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

HaHa, okay apparently I cant spell Weber

Spellwreck happens to “decide” some very strange things now and again.

 

[RichPB (richlife)]

So, that a “possible”? I would encourage you to search some of his music. I’m talking OLD style country (hillbilly) music. Great songwriter! My band does a few of his songs. There was a retrospective of his music by John Loudermilk called “High, Wide and, Handsome.“ interesting treatment of the “raw“ sound of Charlie’s day. We are talking the twenties early thirties, interesting life/tragedy to be honest.

Southern hillbilly!? I would never have thunk it.

 

[Scott Smith]

I recently came across an inexpensive but quite rough WSM-18.

Granted, I'm not as much into cosmetic work as some of the posters here, but your idea of "quite rough" and mine are rather different. Replace the grates and clean the baked on stuff, sure, but your "before" picture of that WSM clearly reflects the sky and the yard and you and some other people of the lid. A beautiful piece of equipment in my book.

 

[Timothy F. Lewis]

Southern hillbilly!? I would never have thunk it.

Yes, he got a recording contract and was so elated he drank himself to death!