Hhr810 Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 I have a gas grill that has bowed out in front enough that the grates don’t reach. Is it possible to bend it back ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad J. Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Cast iron is extremely fragile. Bending is not something I would recommend trying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 I don't know of many gas grills made from cast iron, cast aluminum or sheet steel is much more common. Does a magnet stick to the grill shell? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Weld some extensions on the grates to fit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 Build your own grate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 That too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 I'm really wondering if it is cast iron; I did a bit of searching on the net and found grills with cast iron burners and grills with cast iron grills; but none with a cast iron body. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Welcome from the Ozark mountains. Have you tried a spark test? Should tell you if it's cast iron or aluminum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Magnet will too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Magnets won't stick to cast iron? Cast aluminum is easy to ID with a scratch, you can ID stamped BBQ bodies at a glance. I have trouble imagining anybody making cast steel BBQs, there are better things to do with the left overs in a ladle. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Perhaps I should say: magnets stick to my cast iron solid fuel BBQ grill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 They don't build them like that anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 I've owned it 40 years and I expect my kids will fight over who gets it now I have made a replacement grill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 Now that's a BBQ to be proud of and the new grill looks great, should last at least another 40 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 My point was I don't know of a cast iron a magnet won't stick to. Finding out I'm wrong A G A I N will neither surprise me nor disappoint me. I love that BBQ, I could make up such great stories about where it came from. Submarine mine? Debris from area 51? Part of Vern's, Nautilus reactor? I have a small autunite specimen I could rub on it to back up the reactor stories. Make robotic legs and tell folks it's a captured Martian walker? Oh I could have fun with it, making a walking robot would mean I didn't have to move it which would be a good thing. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Well the heat ray is great to sear in the juices! When I was at the scrapyard today there was a metal box chemistry kit, the box was in excellent condition but it was empty except for the holders. I really wanted to see what they gave for the atomic experiments! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Oh yeah, nothing beats the macrowave for cooking meat! The atomic experiments in my chemistry set had a cool little detector made up of hanging foil strips that moved towards each other in the presence of ionizing radiation. The cloud chamber was cool and worked for the sample in the set. Mother wouldn't buy dry ice very often though. <sigh> There was a film badge and developing chemicals. Something else too but I don't recall. By performing the series of experiments you were supposed to be able to identify the sample. I didn't, I was much more interested in testing the hand sized autunite crystal on the mantel. I wonder what the film badge would've looked like if I hadn't put it on the autunite for an hour. The cloud chamber was amazingly congested with tracks. I guess those are the kinds of things kids should learn during the height of a cold war. I wonder if that old chemistry set is still in the hoard in my Sister's garage or shed. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 An electroscope. I used to have a copy of "The Scientific American book of science projects for the amateur scientist" that included things like building your own linear accelerator using a Van de Graaf generator and a home built mercury diffusion pump. They did warn you not to irradiate anything with an atomic number greater than iron...Mutating beans was suggested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Might be available online. Mutant zombie bean apocalypse should be avoided like making radioactive isotopes. . . Accidentally. I wonder if I could shoot mosquitoes dead with a particle accelerator? Mutating them wouldn't be good unless it was a vegetarian mutation. Hmmmm. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Might be able to sterilize them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 That's an evolutionary dead end, in spite of the "learned" proposals that have been made for mosquito control. I'd be more than happy with a vegetarian mutation mutation, maybe one that was happy living it's entire life as little wigglers in ponds. If it has to fly maybe just lays it's eggs in other ponds. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 21 hours ago, ThomasPowers said: Mutating beans was suggested. Some sharpy probably ran with that and is now CEO of one of the few industrial agro food giants. Wait till it backfires and we have "The Day of the Triffids 2" on our hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 No problem; I've got recipes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 They would die in the desert trying to get to you anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 We can go meet them. Triffid Trifle Mmmmmmm. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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