Quick partial disassembly of Weber genesis 1000


 
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I use bleach, dawn, water and bar keepers friend in a small bucket. I’ll soak some stuff for over a week. Every so often shaking it around, agitating it a little bit then when I think about getting them done use a plastic bristled brush, scrub and rinse with hot water.

*edit* for only a few knobs, I think Bruce’s method would be better. Last time I did about a dozen or so knobs and igniter buttons. And then I sort them out by coloring/fade and divvy up into ziplocks
 
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I finally have a couple days where the humidity is below 55, which makes me want to paint. I never had time to get all the paint off the end caps. I went to the only powder coating place near me to ask about media blasting and he estimated about $60 for just the end caps - which is more than I’d like to pay.

How bad would it look to spray paint over the existing paint (some flaking and a few passes with the angle grinder). Would roll on paint be better in this situation? For the cookbox I was just going to clean with brake cleaner and spray it with stove brite satin black, it’s available locally here $17 a can, or rust oleum high heat which is much less expensive
 
I had to take a break from the grill and will do some work on it today. For prepping the frame for painting I plan on doing a quick go over with a small orbital sander / 180 grit sandpaper and then cleaning. I have here in the house acetone, mineral spirits, denatured alcohol, and a spray bottle of simple green. Any of these best to use? I’d rather not buy something else like lacquer thinner. Instead of sandpaper would a green scotch brite scrubbing suffice?
 
Final cleaning you want something that will not attract moisture. Acetone is your best bet. Mineral spirits IMO leaves a slight oily film and denatured alcohol while a good degreaser is hydroscopic. So I'd place Acetone 1, alcohol 2, and spirits far 3
 
Jeffrey W said:
I had to take a break from the grill and will do some work on it today. For prepping the frame for painting I plan on doing a quick go over with a small orbital sander / 180 grit sandpaper and then cleaning. I have here in the house acetone, mineral spirits, denatured alcohol, and a spray bottle of simple green. Any of these best to use? I’d rather not buy something else like lacquer thinner. Instead of sandpaper would a green scotch brite scrubbing suffice?
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I use Scotch Brite for paint prep. If you have to even out surfaces you'll want to use sandpaper to even those out but for the most part I go over parts with Scotch Brite before I paint.
 
Didn’t paint I, instead I decided to get my money’s worth of the $10.00 harbor freight angle grinder I got a few years ago. The last end cap still has paint because of the cheap hf wire brushes throwing all the bristles off.
Think I can get by with leaving it as is?IMG_5374.jpeg
 
Bruce said:
Are you able to get the 4" wire cup brushes. I thought they discontinued them.
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I had gotten the 3” crimped wire cup brush, I don’t think I saw any 4” ones. I also used the 4.5” crimped wire wheel. I still have an intact one of those, so I just may try to complete the end cap with that
 
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