The burner I put in mine is aftermarket, its been great. Remember that you're not going to be able to buy much of a grill for $200.
Have you tried cleaning yours? Again if its mostly yellow flames maybe theres something clogging an air intake? -Curt ________________________________ From: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 12:13 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT BBQ Just took a look online. Appears that Vermont Castings has given up on my model as they show almost all of the parts as "not in stock". Aftermarket parts appear to be available but also appears that it will cost at least $200 to replace the 3 burner tubes at roughly $25 each and about the same for the heat shields. Add on some tax and we will hit $200 pretty quickly. Wish I knew if the aftermarket parts will be OK or if they will be junk that does not last. What are my odds??? RB On 12/09/2014 9:12 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > That sounds about right. Remember the price of grills hasn't risen > appreciably in the last 15 years. We looked at grills for camp and decided on > a KMart $99 unit which has served us surprisingly well. > At home I have a Vermont Castings unit that a co-worker replaced with a $600 > Webber. The VC I got cost around $600 20 years ago. I would submit that a > "good" grill is in the $500-$800 range and if you're going to spend less you > should get the $100 cheapo. > > I will note that my home grill is due for some love, its burning quite > yellow. I need to take a look in the burner and see if the air tubes are > plugged, at the very least I should clean out the accumulated schmutz. I've > had the thing 5 or 6 years and have maintained it not at all. When I got it I > put a new cast iron (as opposed to the pressed steel the cheapies use) burner > in but thats all. It could use new ceramic radiants (as opposed to lava > rocks) too. > > -Curt > > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
