Found a neglected O code (1992) red Weber Master Touch kettle BBQ on marketplace last week.
Got to work to disassemble it and give it a thorough clean inside and out. Lid is faded but hey! Its over 30 years old! I don’t think it had been cooked on for many years. Overall it wasn’t actually as bad as it looked at first.
The cooking grill was beyond saving, very badly rusted. Replaced it this morning with a heavy duty new GBS grill.
Replaced all the retaining nuts for the bail arm as they were very corroded.
Razor scraper got rid of most of the burnt and caked on stuff inside. Then OOOO fine steel wool and Simple Green detergent did the job to finish the cleaning of the bowl and lid and give it all a good polish. The aluminium parts - ash catcher, legs and ash catcher bracket, got rubbed over with medium wet and dry paper then the OOOO steel wool and finally metal polish. My IT geek son printed me new white walls for the wheels on his 3D printer!
About 8 hours put into it all up.
I have put some plastic handles on it temporarily while I get some timber ones organised. There were no handles on it when I got it.
The lid thermometer unfortunately doesnt work. Will call Weber Australia tomorrow to ask if they have them available. Fingers crossed. I have seen then from US based ebay and Amazon suppliers but the postage they charge is a bit of a killer….. especially for something that is basically an ornament anyway.
Gave it its first run today to do a beef shin low n slow using a snake. I used chunks of lychee wood for smoke. Nice sweet light smoke similar to cherry. I like it almost as much as banksia seedpods.
I think the new red fits in well with the H code green!
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Originally Posted by ProVle
