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Well, looks like my patience has finally paid off. I'm on the way to pick up this beauty right now. More to come...

WOO HOO - - - you have certainly been put thru the Pellet Pooper Purchasing wringer - - - Congrats on the Score - - - now all that's left is to "Git'er Done"

Congratulations


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We are home, and this has been an adventure. We got there and it turns out those were not the proper pictures of the unit offered for sale. Same model etc, and I do think it was an honest mistake. He just had too many smokers. Anyway, the condition wasn't as good as the other cosmetically but still a very solid machine. Just going to take a little cleaning up. This one actually had 2 thermometers mounted in the lid (why, only grate temps matter) but it had a cover, extra power cord, and a unopened 40# bag of pellets. We got to talking and I told him about our forum so expect to see a new guy from Desoto joining in. He also gave me a set of grill grates for grilling ($100.00). The asking price was $1000 and due to cosmetic reasons I was able to score it for $800. I'll spend the next couple of days (while some meat thaws) cleaning, polishing, foiling and it will be as good as new. I'm one happy camper. Now just have to wait on some help to get it out of the truck.

this ain't your first Rodeo and even the clean up and prep work will be fun REMEMBER the first Hot Rod you towed in that wouldn't crank but you couldn't wait to git'er on the Road - - - - same thing except you don't have to crawl under the Yoder Happy for you Pal

Cleaned up pretty nice, only thing left to do is polish the inside grills (looks like they used a grill mat over them so in great shape. An odd thing though, they used the deflector plate upside down and allowed some grease to run into the bottom when there were raised edges to stop that when plate was in correctly.

Question? Would you use some highheat paint and cover the bare spots? Nothing more than surface rust that came off with an sos pad??

Here she is in place, my set it and forget it tool in the arsenal. Click on pics for correct view, I guess they are too big. Pics will be the death of me on this forum.

Great Score man !!
I can't wait to see your first cook off of it :):)
Congrats again, exciting stuff for sure :)

woodenvisions wrote:Great Score man !!
I can't wait to see your first cook off of it :):)
Congrats again, exciting stuff for sure :)

Thanks WV. I excited as well. I may go see what I can find tomorrow that isnt frozen and do a small test run.

I'll be stalking the forum for the pics, like I always say....

Let it fly

Home Sweet Home - - - as far as the deflector plate goes, now that you've got in in your hands and it's clean then "all is good" - - - I ALWAYS put foil over my deflector plate and I even make a lip at the ?high? end to prevent ANY POSSIBILITY of grease getting into the fire pot. I also try and keep whatever I'm cooking towards the lower end of the Grill.

Nice find! Lucky dog!

OldUsedParts wrote:Home Sweet Home - - - as far as the deflector plate goes, now that you've got in in your hands and it's clean then "all is good" - - - I ALWAYS put foil over my deflector plate and I even make a lip at the ?high? end to prevent ANY POSSIBILITY of grease getting into the fire pot. I also try and keep whatever I'm cooking towards the lower end of the Grill.

Nothing more valuable than free knowledge from someone that knows his pooper :):)
Yooz duh man Emm :):)

woodenvisions wrote:Nothing more valuable than free knowledge from someone that knows his pooper :):) Yooz duh man Emm :):)

?Free? who said anything about it being Free As far as "knowing" - - this one thing I do KNOW - - - - purt near every time that I fire it up and use it "I learn something new"

OldUsedParts wrote:[quote="woodenvisions"]Nothing more valuable than free knowledge from someone that knows his pooper :):) Yooz duh man Emm :):)

?Free? who said anything about it being Free As far as "knowing" - - this one thing I do KNOW - - - - purt near every time that I fire it up and use it "I learn something new" [/quote]Lol, send him ur bank acct info, I'm sure he will " Take care of the rest "....:):)