So, when I'm grilling, I prefer to cook with lump charcoal using the cooking grates on my outdoor bbq pit.
HOWEVER, my i s c & a aggie wife really likes the convenience of the propane grill that came built in to the then-new outdoor kitchen when we bought our house 12 years ago. It worked well for many years, but unfortunately time hasn't been all that kind to the grill-- most of the burners are corroded and burned out, the igniter doesn't work, the knobs have all basically melted to the point of near uselessness, and on one of the valves/knobs, if you attempt to light that particular burner, flame will come shooting back out of the valve and around the knob, directly onto the human standing next to the grill. None of these are good, obviously.
So I was thinking, man, that grill's a mess, we should just buy a new one. Well, searching up on the web, the exact replacement for this BBQs Galore Grand Turbo model, is $4,000. So after I got my eyes back into my head, I was thinking, "maybe a cheaper model exists." But about the cheapest I can find that would fit the same opening in the outdoor kitchen countertop, is still something like $2,400.
So now I'm thinking, I'm really cheap, and I wonder what it would take to repair it? Many of the parts are available online, but not necessarily all of them. At a minimum it's going to take new burners, new carryover tubes, new knobs, new igniter, and new ceramics for the vaporizer/flavorizer tray. Depending on the issue with the valve that shoots flame outward toward the humans instead of inward toward the food, it might need valve replacement, or it might just need venturi tube cleaning. Also much of the mounting apparatus inside the grill has corroded and turned to dust, so it might require the purchase or fabrication of some new mounting pieces. Luckily the exterior of the stainless grill and all of its grates., are still in excellent shape.
I'm planning on posting up my progress here for anyone interested, and also, if any of you have experience doing this and know where to find obscure parts, please let me know.
TL; DR -- I'm rehabbing my 13-15 year old BBQs Galore built-in Grand Turbo propane grill, any help is appreciated or if you just want to laugh at me that's okay too.
