"Denny Wheeler" > wrote in message
...
> On Fri, 16 May 2008 21:21:30 GMT, Grant Erwin
> > wrote:
>
>>Terry Caton wrote:
>>
>>> Surely I'm not the first person to wonder how sweet it would be to have
>>> a
>>> heavy cast iron grill grate in a standard Weber kettle, instead of the
>>> stock, light-weight stainless steel grate that has zero heat capacity.
>>> Unfortunately, I haven't found much information on it other than Weber
>>> itself doesn't make one. Has anyone found any 3rd party companies that
>>> do?
>>> Can a reasonably decent metal-working shop fabricate one (at a
>>> reasonable
>>> expense)? A Weber kettle with a cast iron grate would truly be the
>>> perfect
>>> grill...
>>
>>It would cost quite a bit of money to pay a foundry to set up to pour that
>>grill. If you wanted to buy 50000 of them then the setup cost might be
>>reasonable, but for one? Probably not.
>>
>>It might be possible to buy a thin cast plate and have it laserjet cut for
>>just
>>a couple hundred dollars, though.
>
> Not laserjet. Just laser. Or waterjet. I wonder how much my firm
> would charge to do such a custom job. We have 4 lasers...
>
> I was thinking--how about finding a blacksmith, preferably one who
> welds? Good smith could make what would effectively be a wrought iron
> grate--I don't see why such wouldn't have the same qualities as a cast
> one, at least if made of, say, half-inch bar stock.
>
> Hell, we probably could do it where I work--but, being a largish
> company, I suspect we'd charge too much for such a small job.
>
> "Every single religion that has a monotheistic god
> winds up persecuting someone else."
> -Philip Pullman
> --
> -denny-
> (not as curmudgeonly as I useta be)

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