Timothy Hoffman
TVWBB All-Star
I posted this last year and was going to do an update but that thread is closed. So, I will start a new thread with some old content and some new.
[Originally posted June 24, 2012]
I grew up with Weber grills. My parents always had them. Finally in 1995 I got my first Weber. It was a hand me down from my neighbor. He had just gotten a new gasser and asked me if I wanted it. (He got rid of the gasser the next year and went back to charcoal.)
The grill he gave me was a 70's model that had faded to grey. It had seen a lot of use. I used it as my primary grill from 1995 until I got a brand new Weber in the spring of 1999. It then served as a back up grill with light use until 2004 when I got divorced. From 2004 until 2007 it just sat unused. In 2007 for our big memorial day cookout it grilled its last. The leg sockets were so rusty it just collapsed when we were done with it. This was over at my friend Ron's place. Fast forward to today. I was over at Ron's and noticed a familiar shape in the tree line of the woods behind his house. My old grill! Everything was still there except the lid. I dragged it all home. The legs, wheels, and cooking grate went into another Weber to make it functional again. I am going to use some aluminum flat stock and the old charcoal grate and turn the bowl into a fire pit.
It is good to have you back old friend. [end original]
June 2013 update.
Here is a photo I found on a floppy from April 1998. This was 3 years after I had gotten it. Note the steel wheels, 1960's? The legs and wheels I found with it at Ron's are not the ones in the following picture, they must have come from another grill.
I still have not converted it to a fire pit, but I do have the aluminum stock to do so. I need to get this done soon as we are moving and the new place we can not have an inground pit.
[Originally posted June 24, 2012]
I grew up with Weber grills. My parents always had them. Finally in 1995 I got my first Weber. It was a hand me down from my neighbor. He had just gotten a new gasser and asked me if I wanted it. (He got rid of the gasser the next year and went back to charcoal.)
The grill he gave me was a 70's model that had faded to grey. It had seen a lot of use. I used it as my primary grill from 1995 until I got a brand new Weber in the spring of 1999. It then served as a back up grill with light use until 2004 when I got divorced. From 2004 until 2007 it just sat unused. In 2007 for our big memorial day cookout it grilled its last. The leg sockets were so rusty it just collapsed when we were done with it. This was over at my friend Ron's place. Fast forward to today. I was over at Ron's and noticed a familiar shape in the tree line of the woods behind his house. My old grill! Everything was still there except the lid. I dragged it all home. The legs, wheels, and cooking grate went into another Weber to make it functional again. I am going to use some aluminum flat stock and the old charcoal grate and turn the bowl into a fire pit.
It is good to have you back old friend. [end original]
June 2013 update.
Here is a photo I found on a floppy from April 1998. This was 3 years after I had gotten it. Note the steel wheels, 1960's? The legs and wheels I found with it at Ron's are not the ones in the following picture, they must have come from another grill.
I still have not converted it to a fire pit, but I do have the aluminum stock to do so. I need to get this done soon as we are moving and the new place we can not have an inground pit.
