Steve Hoch
TVWBB Hall of Fame
Well, this is the way I look at this situation. Yes, you can modify these to work, but you shouldn't have to regardless of how cheap they were. Just keeping them rewards and encourages the seller/manufacturer to keep making them wrong and it's not really fair to you or the person you pass the grill on to.It is incredibly frustrating. Unless you make some mods to it, its short enough that it'll come right off the valve. I think the next one I am going to slightly file down where the burners screw into. I am thinking about just tacking the center tube down going forward. After I have run it and checked everything works.
I think I will be ordering a couple of the Parts direct burners. I got a couple of these packaged tubes and bars at a good discount, but constantly having to alter them is annoying.