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Thanks. I'm perfectly fine continuing to use my pit as a charcoal grill and let the wife use the propane grill in the outdoor kitchen. Just have to get it working. She said she's okay with me picking up a Blackstone, but not until the patio propane grill is fully operational. So, I have some motivation here...

So, when I'm grilling, I prefer to cook with lump charcoal using the cooking grates on my outdoor bbq pit. HOWEVER, my 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, ovbviously. 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.

Look, there's no need for y'all to get all salty, just because Schumi wore it better.

Eh, they can work out a deal. It's only money. A yellow and green car doesn't scream Senna to me, despite the obvious connection to the national colors of Brazil. A yellow and green helmet, of course, would certainly hail back to Senna's time. But honestly to me the car looks more like a nod to Benetton and Michael Schumacher.

I'm okay with the homage to Senna and as stated by @VABuckeye, other than the Google wheels, I like it-- but Artyon Senna never drove a car that looked like that. I'd much prefer to see them pay their respects using THIS livery:

If you decide to wire a backup generator directly into your house's breaker panel please hire a professional and do not attempt to backfeed the system through the dryer outlet. There are many potential safety issues with the dryer hack. Do it right, do it once.

PM Derka?

Yes inverter generators are far superior in noise reduction and efficiency. And these days the off-brands like the one Eddie posted above, are actually not totally cheap pieces of crap. There was a time 20 years ago when you absolutely had to go with Honda or Yamaha, but these days there are many brands that are much cheaper and similarly reliable. For home emergency temporary use, I understand why people still buy the old-style loud AF open-frame generators. But for camping and tailgating, I strongly suggest the inverter style, unless you want your neighbors to murder you in your sleep and/or after you pass out.

Shoot, I was just thinking there was too much English and not enough español on that sign...

Yeah thanks, but I have no intentions of letting a 16yo boy convert his first car into a track car. A nice, stock, few-year-old base model is what he'd be getting, at best. When he's out of my hair and on his own, he can do whatever he likes to the car.

Texas controlled the game from the start. Texas went up 28-7 about 4 minutes into the 4th quarter, and then Turtle Tom did what he does. Georgia scored at the 10:25 mark to make it 28-14, and then scored a garbage TD with a few seconds left in the game to make it 28-21. But anyone who watched that game knows that Texas whipped that ass.

Sure! Here's a picture of one:

1.1" in a little under an hour at my house here in NW Travis, and still going. It's never going to stop raining!

Gen Y is the original term, simply because it came after Gen X. "Millennials" was a later designation that ended up sticking. Similarly, some folks are now trying to call Gen Z the "Zoomers." But I'm not sure if that one will stick, in the way Millennials did.

braggart

Why do you insist on asking the question when you already know the answer? It's never going to rain again.

My 14yo son is getting into cars, as his 16th birthday approaches. Recently he's decided he really loves the Toyota GR86 and its twin sister-car the Subaru BRZ. They each feature a Subaru flat 4 as the power plant, so this hits close to home (maybe, in a year or so).

I can tell you if my wife saw Ring video from our front doorstep of some masked person dropping off a note in the wee hours of the morning, she'd freak the fuck out and wouldn't feel at all safe for quite some time. It doesn't matter one bit what some internet message board dorks think about the level of severity of that threat, it only matters what the people inside that house feel about it.

Got a quick pop-up with some small hail (dime-sized) last night up here in NW Travis Co. Only 0.07" of rain, though.

No way man. Other than the message board cripple fight amongst a few misguided folks, the content is pure gold, Jerry!

Well he's been trying to assassinate the president of Ukraine for over 2 years now, so...

Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely check it out. I love reading their story.

Well the space is already built out for BBQ. I should open a BBQ restaurant there. Surely it would work for ME...