Sheldon wrote:
> The side shelves on my Weber finally bit the dust. My grill is old,
> it has the wooden slat shelves, the wood was so rotten that ther ewas
> no way to reattach with new screws. The new shelves are some sort of
> plastic. I called Weber and they wanted $30 for each side shelf in
> plastic.... with the bottom shelf and the swing-up shelf they wanted
> just under $200 + shipping... I said phooey on that. For under $3
> worth of treated wood lumber from Lowes I sawed and replaced the slats
> on both side shelves in under an hour (there was nothing wrong with
> the metal brackets), I had to add a few screws as some of teh
> originals had fallen out and are lost... that's how I realized there
> was a problem, I noticed a couple of screw on teh ground.
>
> Look how rotten the old slats:
> http://i35.tinypic.com/11immxk.jpg
>
> Better than new:
> http://i36.tinypic.com/imueya.jpg
>
> Been feeding my handsome boy and his twin sister since they were tiny
> fawns, this is their third year:
> http://i37.tinypic.com/157ggn9.jpg
> http://i36.tinypic.com/6s71on.jpg

Nice grill repair, Sheldon! (And the deer are beautiful, too.) :~)

kili