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utee94

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  1. Is this a put-on? What rain in Austin are y'all talking about? It got really windy and cloudy briefly but then, nothing. No Rain. Hyrdomet out front shoulda told ya...
  2. Same thing here. And then my app said "Rain will continue for the next 30 minutes." Looked outside, not even a cloud. It's never going to rain again.
  3. We just did a boil at our house this past Sunday, a couple sacks and the bugs were finally really BIG, and not tough to peel. Fantastic way to close out the season.
  4. Deep Eddy vodka?
  5. Yup, will do. As well as any pictures of myself without eyebrows...
  6. utee94

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    I hear there's a huge already built-out restaurant space in Buda that has recently become available, they should definitely consider abandoning their successful trailer operation and trying out a brick and mortar in a remote location!
  7. Yup, I saw some great before and afters and contacted a couple companies around here, and the minimum cleaning cost was $350. Any repairs are on top of that were at a parts + $200/hr service fee. Hence, my decision do DIY it, if I can. Right now it'll be the burners themselves. I think I'm going to be able to clean them up, and the good news is that I can do that, test and see if they work properly, and then continue or not based on those results, with zero dollars spent other than some cheap cleaning supplies I already have (the parts I've ordered so far are all through Amazon and easily returnable).
  8. Cool, thanks, I might check into that. After taking apart the grill, I actually don't think the burners are in bad shape. They were caked up with a lot of grease and grime, but their bodies are still solid, zero evidence of burn-through, and the burner holes are all in good shape. They're originally made of extremely heavy cast stainless steel, and the venturi tubes right at the valves are still fairly bright shiny metal. If I don't have to pay for new burners, it drops my parts cost down considerably, maybe $150 or so. I'm gonna give these all a good wash, and then see how they perform.
  9. My favorite weekend of the year!
  10. Yup. 100 degree summer days plus cold pool is a no brainer. Getting into the pool at Northwest Park in late July never felt particularly refreshing, that's for sure.
  11. The entire model, with multiple governing bodies controlling separate parts of the sport, is just fraught with risk. And this is the precise manifestation of that.
  12. The Bull looks nice. The one that will fit is basically the same as what I have, the replacement cost is around $4K, like the BBQs Galore Grand Turbo. Anyway, I'm committed to the project. I've got new burners, new temp gauge, new spark igniters, new knobs, and new ceramic briquettes on the way. I've inspected the valves and it looks like I'll only need to replace one of them. The back burner rail is in okay condition, but the back crossover tubes are pretty much toast. I can't find anywhere that carries them so it looks like I'm going to have to get those fabricated, luckily my next door neighbor is a kick-ass dude who manages the shop floor at a metal fabrication company and can hook me up with those for nothing more than a case of beer. Current estimate of parts is around $550. Of course, this whole thing could end up taking me 80 man-hours and $10,000 to complete. Either way I plan to post up pics so y'all can watch the hilarity unfold.
  13. Wait, over two years from now? This smells an awful lot like a furniture store "going out of business" sale, to me...
  14. 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...
  15. 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.
  16. Look, there's no need for y'all to get all salty, just because Schumi wore it better.
  17. 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.
  18. 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:
  19. 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.
  20. PM Derka?
  21. 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.
  22. Shoot, I was just thinking there was too much English and not enough español on that sign...
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