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Summary: Condition: The thing was obviously really dirty. Lots of caked up grease and grime on the grates, sides, lid, everywhere. Burner 3 from right would shoot out flames at me. Burner 4 from right was very hard to light. The ceramic flavorizer/heat distribution bricks had mostly disintegrated, and tons of it had fallen through to the bottom. The cast stainless steel burners were heavily covered with surface rust but otherwise in good shape. The igniters/gas collector boxes were completely rusted through and had broken off and fallen into the basin. The carryover tubes at the back were badly rusted but only one was completely broken. The knobs were corroded and the inserts were all melted and misshapen from the heat, so they didn't really work for turning the D-type valves. Steps: I took it all apart so I could clean it. First I tried to wash the grates with degreasing soap and water, that did nothing. Power-washing helped a little. But really, the only real progress occurred after I took the angle grinder with a wire cup wheel to it. I also used the angle grinder and wire cup to clean all the rust off the stainless steel burners, that was really rewarding. All of the holes were fine, but after washing with vinegar and grinding the rust off, I went back and blew it all out with pressurized air. The old knobs were shot, I ordered inexpensive replacement knobs to replace them. Two valves were shot, I pulled both and took them apart to inspect them and one was really sticky, the other had some broken bits inside. Bought two new ones to replace-- they're almost identical except they're built upside down, odd but liveable. I replaced all three igniter/gas collectors and I replaced the electric automatic igniter switch. None of that had EVER worked since we bought the house, now it's all like new. The rear gas carryover tubes are in rough, rusted out shape, but only one was completely broken. I confirmed the others still work, and I'm having a buddy who works at a metal fab shop make up a new one for me to replace the last one. The new igniter/collectors also act as carryover tubes at the front, so everything works basically as designed, until I can get that new fabbed piece in there. I replaced the flavorizer/heat dissipator ceramic bricks, with the new style ceramic plates that the newest version of my grill uses. That all makes it sound easy but so much of the grill pieces were assembled with stainless steel screws and bolts and nuts and washers, and they were all thoroughly rusted into place. I spent a lot of time with the angle grinder cutoff wheel just sawing through stainless steel, and a lot of time with the Dremel tool and diamond cutoff wheels for the smaller more hard-to-reach places. Every single burner had to have the rusted-out bolts cut off, all three igniters had left rusted trim pieces bolted to the side, etc. It took a lot of time. Total cost for materials came to just over $200. As discussed in this thread above, the cheapest whole drop-in replacement I could find, would have been $700 uninstalled. And the actual direct replacement for my exact grill, would have been around $4,000 uninstalled. This unit has extremely heavy duty cast stainless steel burners and the rest of it is very well built, so I'm pretty happy I went and rehabbed instead of buying a cheaper new one. For anyone interested, I tried a dozen different ways to clean the stainless-- Barkeepers Friend, is definitely your friend.
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Ok I have completed the propane grill project. I’ll show some before pics then some after snd then talk about it a little bit.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
utee94 replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
They keep talking about UT's and Schloss' "tarnished" image. They can't comprehend that their view is limited solely to internet message board bullshit homers. Not even local news is carrying any stories about "the tarnishing." The national news is just talking about how Texas dunked on little brother and it might serve to rekindle the rivalry. But nobody other than ag message board homer articles, are talking about "the tarnishing" at all. They live in the hollowest of echo chambers. -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
utee94 replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
It's just so incredible, they're comparing their two different options on how to release the details that the original liar has already admitted didn't actually happen. They're giddy with excitement over whether they should release the non-existent details slowly, in an effort to harm Schloss and Texas as strategically as possible, or just expose all of the non-existent details in one big bang of a court trial. How they're going to get a non-existent case with zero factual details into the courts, is left to us, the readers, to ponder over in delighted satisfaction. -
Schlossed and confused: When panic leads to an Earley hire
utee94 replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Baseball
She probably also thinks we couldn't get a toe by 3 o'clock-- with nail polish. -
Schlossed and confused: When panic leads to an Earley hire
utee94 replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Baseball
I have a feeling this stop, and this photo op, are going to become part of UT lore-- like going to take a picture of "Dom" outside of Lajitas. -
Surely the greatest fans in the world would never do such a thing. It must be a misunderstanding. My guess-- a kindly ag was giving him directions to the stadium, when he feinted and fell into the man's arms. Accidentally, as he was saving this longhorn's life, his elbow might have tapped him on the back of the head. I'm certain it was something like that.
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Schlossed and confused: When panic leads to an Earley hire
utee94 replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Baseball
It's been posted a few times within the last couple of days on one of the many theads skewering the ags' hysteria and hypocrisy. Either this one, the Show Me a Schloss, or the A&M thread on the football board, or the A&M screenshot thread on 9.95. I'm sure someone will post it again soon, it's just too good. -
It's amazing to me that we are now finding out just how many people knew so many details about this impending coaching change well before it happened, and yet it still came as a complete shock to the entire college sporting world, with not a murmur until the final day of the CWS. That's just crazy!
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In cases like this, I always wonder how they come up with their lies that they then repeat until it becomes their truth? Is there, like, a special committee in charge of it? Do they hold weekly meetings to determine which events will aggrieve them to the point that they need to make up a lie? Is there some metric, like a Richter scale of Ag Anger, that helps them determine the magnitude of the insult and the resulting lie that must be told to "correct" it? Or is lying just so innate for aggies that it comes about organically? Could be JoeAg82 this time, and OlSarge 63 the next? It just bubbles through the cesspool of their moronic common clay consciousness, percolates for a while in the sewers of their imagination, and then suddenly springs forth unto their keyboards, like Athena bursting full-grown from Zeus' head after Hephaestus took to him with an axe? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Don't forget about the manly jizz jars and bare-ass naked pummeling of redpots or whatever that weird activity is.
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J seems like he sucks.
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Even more than that-- that was the 99 bonfire game. Texas students, administrators, and athletes had gone out of their way to raise money and participate in blood drives for direct relief to help those harmed by the collapse. That's how they treat us when we're actively trying to HELP them.
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Yup. Radio, Cart McCry. Such a classy and non-bigoted fanbase, everyone should aspire to their level of tolerance and enlightenment.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
utee94 replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
99.9% chance that the "t-shirt t-sips" who approached our noble ags solely to taunt them, never did this. -
Our AD is responsible for bringing winning coaches to The University of Texas. He is not responsible for making aggies feel comfortable about events that occur in college athletics. I'm not sure why you or any other ag feels like he owes you that, but it's really weird.
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Including when TAMU did the exact same thing with the exact same coach, 3 years ago.
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Your football team bought an entire class with Hefty bags full of cash and your fan base chest-thumped for years afterward about how you had more money than anyone, including Texas. There is no school more responsible for this current state of athletics, than your own. If you can acknowledge that and still believe that college sports are in jeopardy, then peace. But if you think TAMU is somehow above it and not largely responsible for it, then you're lying to yourself and everyone else.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
utee94 replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Well, they understand the part of the portal where their players are frantically exiting, they just don't get the other part. -
But only for players at schools with a coaching change, right? So we'll be able to get players from A&M, and then any school that's in the string of dominoes after the ags hire their new coach? If so, who are they likely to hire, and which players at that school would we want?
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Agreed, very cool. I would hate to be one of the teams playing against Ukraine. But they're all competitors and the best way to respect them and honor them, is to play as tough as you can.
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he handled it perfectly in the press conference. It won't be enough to satisfy ag fans, but nothing he said then or now would prevent their anger anyway.
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
utee94 replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
Absolutely unhinged. You hate to see it...
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