I am just posting this for some of you that are not doing museum pieces. Not all of my resto's are numbers matching perfect. Most of the time I am refitting the grill with new parts a good cleaning and some fresh paint. I am sorry to say there is likely rust inside my frame that I will never see and thats just fine with me.
So many of our flips have this problem of the cross bar being all rusted out. Well usually its just a blown out hole but plenty of good metal still left on this cross bar. Bruce's method is the ( correct ) way of repairing this issue......but my way gets the job done too....just not as sayyyyy correct.
I work for a retail company and I have access to a lot of metal scrap from old displays.......I use the metal scrap for bottom shelves and cross bars. Some of this metal scrap is basically angle iron.
Step 1. Grind and clean rusted area....spray w rust converter...let dry....spray w rustoleum up in tube as much as u can so u can sleep at night.
Step 1. Cut 2 angle iron pieces to 15 1/2 shy
Step 2. Clamp both pieces opposing each other to form a square over the damaged bar.
Step 3. Drill through 4 holes....install Stainless Steel bolts...washers...nuts....and tighten.
Step 4. I hope on step 3 you painted inside those fresh drilled holes cause they are gunna rust
Step 5. spray a tack coat on the repair and your done for the evening.......I ended up spraying a tack coat on the entire frame so it was good progress.
I will include pics in case anyone wants to try this method. The bolt heads look factory to me....you dont have to use big bolt heads you could use carriage bolts but I just didnt care.
So many of our flips have this problem of the cross bar being all rusted out. Well usually its just a blown out hole but plenty of good metal still left on this cross bar. Bruce's method is the ( correct ) way of repairing this issue......but my way gets the job done too....just not as sayyyyy correct.
I work for a retail company and I have access to a lot of metal scrap from old displays.......I use the metal scrap for bottom shelves and cross bars. Some of this metal scrap is basically angle iron.
Step 1. Grind and clean rusted area....spray w rust converter...let dry....spray w rustoleum up in tube as much as u can so u can sleep at night.
Step 1. Cut 2 angle iron pieces to 15 1/2 shy
Step 2. Clamp both pieces opposing each other to form a square over the damaged bar.
Step 3. Drill through 4 holes....install Stainless Steel bolts...washers...nuts....and tighten.
Step 4. I hope on step 3 you painted inside those fresh drilled holes cause they are gunna rust
Step 5. spray a tack coat on the repair and your done for the evening.......I ended up spraying a tack coat on the entire frame so it was good progress.
I will include pics in case anyone wants to try this method. The bolt heads look factory to me....you dont have to use big bolt heads you could use carriage bolts but I just didnt care.
But hopefully it will save someone's back yard grill from the dump.
