Better than the originals!
After Santa Claus brought me an early present of a pellet smoker last year, I quit trying to smoke things in my Weber Summit grill. Thus, the "smoke box" in my Weber has been unused ever since.
This smoke box replacement kit gave me back about 76 square inches of grill space, which is enough for roughly three chicken breasts or four hamburger patties. This might not seem all that important, but when you're trying to cook a whole bag of Trader Joe's chicken breasts while tossing some veggie chunks in olive oil over the flames in a Weber "grill basket", it sure is nice to have more grill space!
The flavor bar fits perfectly between the tabs that used to hold the smoke box, and looks identical to the "original" bars to its left.
The spot-welds securing the bars of the grate are beautifully done, and the spot-welding marks have been polished away on the top of the grill so that you can hardly see them unless you hold the grate up to the light at just the right angle when it's brand new. The ends of the grate rods are all thoroughly de-burred and beveled. They're apparently made with even more care than the originals!
The attached photo shows this kit right after I installed it. (Look for the three shiny grate rails on the right-hand side.)
I couldn't make these parts on a "one-off" basis in our machine shop and sell them for anywhere close to this price, so it's wonderful that someone has gone into larger-scale production and made them available to the rest of us. What a deal!
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