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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 series. :-)

Do be careful tho' of that boy deer when he finally goes into rut!
One reason we went into wildlife rescue is because we could always count
on critters to be just what they were...

We expected to get clawed and bit. <g>

Deer will be deer. Never make the mistake of anthropomorphizing them...
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Peace! Om

"He who has the gold makes the rules"
--Om

"He who has the guns can get the gold."
-- Steve Rothstein