...Restoration of an old Weber Genesis 1000 gas grill. I purchased the grill for $65.00 from a yard sale. This unit had the full stainless steel internals that were in decent shape, the lid porcelain coating looked pretty good, and most of the other bits seemed in reasonable condition:
First step was 100% full disassembly and media blasting ($100) of the castings and internals bits. Then came the painting ($30) of frame and grill before re-assembly. I ended up cannibalizing another Spirit grill ($25) and buying about $55 in new parts. I would have liked to add a shiny new Weber logo, but I couldn't figure out how to remove the original one without damaging the lid's porcelain coating.
I've attached some pictures of the restoration process below:
As-purchased grill condition 1:
As-purchased grill condition 2:
I cleaned a good fraction of the gook off the metal pieces before sending them to the blasting house by using simple green and water followed by phosphoric acid cleaner.
Media blasted main casting:
Media blasted smaller pieces and stainless:
Grill surface with blasting dust removed:
Painting small castings:
Blasting is a skilled trade, and you can see how a practiced blaster did a nice job on both the aluminum castings and stainless steel sheet. They did a great job of retaining all the fine casting detail. The blasting media in this case was duPont Starblast.
Painted casting detail:
Cart (mostly) assembled:
First paint coat on main grill casting:
Finished pictures in the following post, as you can only put ten images per post...
First step was 100% full disassembly and media blasting ($100) of the castings and internals bits. Then came the painting ($30) of frame and grill before re-assembly. I ended up cannibalizing another Spirit grill ($25) and buying about $55 in new parts. I would have liked to add a shiny new Weber logo, but I couldn't figure out how to remove the original one without damaging the lid's porcelain coating.
I've attached some pictures of the restoration process below:
As-purchased grill condition 1:
As-purchased grill condition 2:
I cleaned a good fraction of the gook off the metal pieces before sending them to the blasting house by using simple green and water followed by phosphoric acid cleaner.
Media blasted main casting:
Media blasted smaller pieces and stainless:
Grill surface with blasting dust removed:
Painting small castings:
Blasting is a skilled trade, and you can see how a practiced blaster did a nice job on both the aluminum castings and stainless steel sheet. They did a great job of retaining all the fine casting detail. The blasting media in this case was duPont Starblast.
Painted casting detail:
Cart (mostly) assembled:
First paint coat on main grill casting:
Finished pictures in the following post, as you can only put ten images per post...
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