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+Episode: 3225
+Title: HPR3225: Grill repair
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3225/hpr3225.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-24 19:08:54
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+
+This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3,225 for Friday 11 December 2020. Today's show is entitled
+Grill Repair. It is hosted by Operator
+and is about 17 minutes long
+and carries an explicit flag. The summary is
+I go over some grill tips, Repair.
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+Music
+Hello everyone and welcome to
+a quick tip for maybe a quick episode.
+It's about grills.
+So if you have a grill and you're one of those people that advise the grill every 3-5 years,
+this probably should work for you.
+I got a grill 10-11 years ago for anniversary
+and for my uncle in 5 years down the road,
+I covered it and treated it nice and all that stuff.
+We don't use it a whole ton.
+But after about 5 years,
+what happens is over time
+and he's worst at saying the damage is he's been at the atmosphere.
+The damage is stuff.
+He agrees, he gets the heat, he gets the grease,
+and they have fight and they get put a little in the watching.
+Your primary objective is to protect the line.
+We're on the roofing team, definitely on the roofing team.
+All the ways to the holes coming out of the grill.
+If you can do that, nothing else really matters.
+The bottom rusts out, the sides rust out, the upside down rust out.
+This is something with the coldest one to screw in.
+When you start talking about screws
+over the course of 10 years sitting outside,
+they dig rust and they become pretty much pointless and useless.
+After a certain amount of time,
+safety starts to become an issue,
+because you don't want elements falling down from the bottom.
+If you have a wooden deck, obviously,
+or even works plastic,
+I'm sure there's plastic stuff as mine would be better than wood,
+but from a safety heat perspective.
+Anyway, so if your bottom is rusted out,
+it's not the biggest deal.
+Mine starts to kind of move,
+prefer a little bit more in some holes here and there.
+I don't know how effective it is to actually clean the grill itself.
+I haven't really done any research to figure out,
+hey, is it better to clean your grill,
+pick and span, and then have the elements
+attack at nice new, shangy metal?
+Or is it better to just let them let it eat itself
+and let the stuff kick on in like a few days, right?
+So my thing was,
+about five years after I got this grill,
+it's a relatively normal Kenmore
+and you know,
+it's fucking Chinese-yum shit now.
+That's the problem is that they don't make
+grills like they used to,
+it's all this shit,
+and you can get it.
+I'm sure you can probably get some fancy
+ceramic, whatever,
+if that's not what this is about.
+This is your average Joe clown,
+like me, he divides the grill as a gift,
+and you know,
+I don't want to be one of those people
+that throws the grill outside in the front line,
+because I don't know how to fix it,
+and I don't want to spend,
+I want to spend another $300 on a grill
+at three years, which is just the phosphorus to me.
+So anyways,
+I replaced what they call the firewall,
+which is the part that protects,
+it's pretty important.
+The firewall protects the gas line,
+I'm making all this shit up as I go along.
+The firewall,
+what I'm assuming,
+protects the gas line
+from basically
+running up through the side
+and rusting out,
+and it's just something
+catching fire through the actual gas line.
+So you want to protect the gas line
+and you want to protect everything
+leading up to the elements
+under the thing.
+So I replaced the firewall
+because it started rusting out.
+It's starting to exhibit some signs
+of rust,
+and so we got another like three or four.
+I can already see a hole through it,
+where I'm not supposed to see a hole through the firewall here.
+So the firewall is probably going to have to be your place again,
+along with these three little things
+that protect the heating elements.
+So there's these three little track hod,
+little tent-looking things,
+and I'll go over why I actually fixed mine,
+and I didn't have to spend a dime.
+But there's these little,
+tents that go over the heating elements
+to protect them from getting rusted out,
+quicker than normal,
+because to get grease on something,
+and then you get heat on something,
+then it just kind of starts heating away at itself.
+These actually look relatively decent.
+I replaced them.
+I probably could have waited another while before I did.
+I'm putting this one back in
+and one of the little pabbies
+is completely rusted off.
+It's not exactly all there,
+but it's serving its purpose, right?
+My heating elements are being protected by these little tents.
+I replaced the little grill covers
+because the grills were starting to actually,
+the grill grills.
+It's three pieces,
+and you can modulate the pull them out.
+So if you're just cooking something,
+you can pull one out and take it in.
+Which is actually nice,
+instead of having to clean the whole grill,
+you just clean the bits and pieces of it.
+Anyways,
+I replaced those
+and like I said,
+for five years,
+and I usually,
+you want to get two pro paintings,
+because the last thing you want to do
+is go outside,
+start cooking,
+or usually it's already dead before you start cooking.
+And you have to rank around to the store
+or just say,
+forget it,
+I just want to make a reason.
+I'm not going to have to figure something out
+to do something else to do with this mean.
+So you want to have two pro paintings,
+definitely,
+as it has a backup.
+And if you can,
+there's something else to add to my father added to it.
+I think to tell
+like an auto shutoff
+or some kind of pressure gauge
+or something which I haven't needed.
+I don't know what he had.
+He had some kind of fancy doodle
+that's connected to the pro painting
+to either check the pressure
+or do something.
+Anyways,
+I don't remember
+how to remove what that was.
+I'll put a note,
+show you what it's called,
+I'm actually putting the grill back together now
+after kind of tormenting it.
+Quite a bit here.
+So you want two pro paintings,
+because obviously you don't want to eat
+in the middle of cooking
+and then I put
+what they do to the store
+and get a pro painting
+or just bail
+and do something else.
+I've already replaced one
+of the screws here
+up here to a rusted out
+or just here
+or something.
+But this is one of the ones
+with the sideburner.
+But anyways,
+I spent $150 on this thing
+and it was a gift to me,
+so I figured
+he probably spent
+two or three hundred dollars on it.
+It's got a sideburner,
+it's got a little primer on it.
+These little lighting things,
+I had to buy another one
+of these,
+the igniter,
+the igniter thing,
+which actually
+lasted all of the parts
+so far that I've ever
+done.
+Out of everything,
+the igniter surprisingly
+lasted a long time.
+I actually put
+contact cleaner down in there
+to protect it
+from the elements,
+which probably
+gave it another five years
+to be honest.
+Every time I replaced
+the batteries,
+I just spray more contact
+cleaner down in there.
+You don't have contact cleaner,
+buy it,
+it's great.
+If you don't have
+silicon spray,
+buy it,
+it's great.
+It's safe to use on almost
+everything.
+Silicon spray is great
+for plastics,
+and there's not really
+any bad application
+of silicon spray.
+That I'm aware of.
+There probably
+are other plastics,
+perhaps,
+certain plastics,
+perhaps,
+new plastics.
+You give the plastic
+itself to stick down
+the oils
+and the plastic might break down.
+Weak air oils
+from silicon.
+Oh no!
+If you get like a hundred
+percent silicone
+when you're going to
+shoot in,
+the stuff I have is
+the blaster.
+All the blaster stuff I
+have.
+I have the silicon spray.
+I have the blaster
+blaster,
+which will eat away,
+like, at rusty stuff.
+If you need to adjust
+a whatever act,
+I'm actually looking at
+one that I used to.
+I couldn't get it off,
+but I did get it
+secured,
+securely screwed back
+on there,
+but we had a faucet
+that the valve
+on the faucet crept out.
+Well, I had just
+purchased another faucet
+and attached the faucet
+to the faucet,
+instead of having
+to re-sodder the pipe
+connected to the house.
+So we basically have
+an open,
+a failed open.
+I finally got
+to first stop leaking
+with various,
+various ways,
+and then I put a faucet
+on top of that
+and I used the blaster
+to break all that shit
+up,
+so that I could actually
+unscrew it
+and get it sealed back.
+But I did not
+want to have to
+fix it the right way.
+I wanted me
+easy fix,
+so I put a faucet
+on the faucet.
+So that's an example
+of using the blaster
+where you got
+stubborn stuff.
+If you've got
+like battery
+s at all
+or something,
+you can use it
+for that.
+Anyways,
+I'm still rambling.
+I don't know
+what to do.
+But I guess I should
+put it back on.
+I'm not sure
+where I am.
+It goes on there.
+I
+two-propane tanks
+are replaced
+with the igniter
+and whatever.
+And it's been running
+for like another
+five years or more.
+I feel like
+it's been here for a while.
+So I want to say
+we,
+well I guess we got it
+when we moved in
+and then I bought
+parts for it
+at some point in time.
+But I want to say
+it all looks different.
+I guess that was five years.
+Since I've
+missed it.
+So I started to think
+about, you know,
+it's not, you know,
+I started to think
+about what I was cooking.
+And I noticed
+I said, well,
+just use the other
+thing.
+And then
+it's about cooking
+things
+and still have the same
+problem.
+And we used it
+like two or three times.
+But before
+finally I said,
+something is obviously
+wrong.
+I can't have two
+bad tanks
+with the same exact
+amount of pressure.
+I took the plates
+off and everything.
+And I looked at the gas
+coming out.
+And one, as well
+as the other.
+So it's two
+pro-paint tanks that you
+bought at two different
+times because the same
+amount of gas coming out
+of this.
+It's going to be
+regulated, right?
+There's also
+like little holes, you
+know, that the
+heating element is
+not, but I know to
+protect those.
+So they
+weren't damaged at all.
+And so I knew
+that it wasn't that,
+and I was pretty sure
+it was regulated.
+So it took
+it all apart.
+It was a pain
+that I had to use.
+Two pliers, or a
+wrench and a
+pliers to get the
+screw off the
+thing here.
+So I made sure I
+got some grease
+that all up in the
+circuit.
+I figured it
+hard again if I
+needed to.
+That looks
+bad, right?
+It looks
+too bad that's
+okay.
+So what I found out
+after looking at that
+said, you know, I've
+messed with these
+regulators before.
+I've punched them
+around a little bit
+and smacked them
+around a little bit
+and gotten them to
+work.
+I have a little
+quirk here that it
+was giving to me
+by a little
+box.
+And it had
+a regulator issue
+also.
+And I ran silicon
+through it, smacked it
+around a little bit.
+You know, you turn
+on and off the gas.
+You kind of
+smack it around and
+kind of get those
+valves going.
+I've never
+taken a regulator
+apart.
+I didn't look at how
+they worked a long
+time ago.
+I did.
+I don't know how they
+worked.
+But the idea is like
+this is supposed to
+have some kind of
+tilt on it.
+If you're like
+mocking around and
+don't put the gas on.
+You're
+something up and
+turn the gas on.
+I don't
+close.
+Close.
+Open.
+I can't tell
+it.
+So I ran silicon
+and using a
+well, my mouth.
+Or a
+can of air.
+Or a
+if you want to use
+as a compressor to
+clean it in and out.
+And I put
+enough silicon in
+it so that it would
+drip all the way down
+the little pipe.
+It's a little
+pipe.
+And then I kind of
+blew it.
+So I saw silicon
+coming out of the
+little hole on the
+regulator.
+And then there was
+silicon coming out of
+the front part
+good pleasure
+into the
+plugs in the first
+things in total.
+All right.
+I got silicon in
+and out of this thing.
+Which probably isn't
+that practical.
+I blew it out
+as much as I could
+as I could.
+With the
+can of air,
+blew it all out,
+got as much as the
+silicon out of there
+that I could.
+And
+actually
+smacked it around a
+little bit.
+But the hammer and
+beat it on the table,
+just kind of loosen
+stuff up before and
+after I did that.
+And seems to be
+working good.
+Because before when I
+turned it on, it
+would just kind of
+wouldn't make that
+sound.
+Like that sound of
+that sound where
+like something is
+angry.
+And now, you know,
+I hear this when I turn
+it on.
+I hear something like
+a sound I get to see
+these yellow,
+I see the other
+flames.
+Whereas before it was
+just kind of the
+little pillaging flame
+coming out.
+And it was not coming
+out with a
+force.
+You know, there was
+some logic in
+thinking that maybe
+some spider is
+got in there and
+messed up the line.
+There's something
+like that.
+Obviously I'm
+then not even logical
+here.
+Something like that.
+I kind of messed up
+a bit.
+Something in the
+process.
+Anyway, you know,
+the sideburner
+like ever.
+So that's as long as
+short of it.
+It's just,
+don't be one of those
+people.
+Just throw away your
+grill.
+Take the time to
+protect the elements.
+The heating elements.
+The parts of the
+gas comes out of.
+You don't really
+worry about the worry
+about much else.
+You know, you want to
+protect the gas
+of lines from getting
+rusted.
+So if your
+firewall craps out,
+don't let it rust
+out the rest.
+And then
+eventually, possibly
+hit your
+line.
+And then like, you
+know, call the
+problem and such
+things.
+I mean, it is
+a real worst case
+scenario.
+Your grill starts
+kind of getting hot and
+melting.
+And then like,
+flames start shooting out
+of the side of it.
+Or something,
+which is not ideal.
+But, you know,
+kind of for me,
+the worst case scenario
+would be like,
+I don't even know,
+like, the gas would
+have billed up somewhere
+and blow it
+out.
+And then, you know,
+the thing would explode
+and become
+something.
+Grinning it
+or something.
+But, in general,
+you're even
+going to be
+able to
+protect the
+elements and
+protect the lines,
+the gas lines,
+I feel comfortable enough
+to do whatever
+that I want to do with
+the stupid thing.
+But, don't be
+all those people
+that throw away your grill
+and
+put it out in the front
+on.
+You know, take the time
+to the research.
+You're going to
+cost you 150 bucks.
+This cost me nothing to
+fix.
+You know, this
+regulated probably
+going to last me
+another five years.
+And maybe I got
+a couple of years
+in the
+part that protects
+the burners.
+But, now, I don't
+have to go by
+regularly during
+and I also don't have to
+swap out the
+paint tanks.
+I was about to go
+to get another
+broken thing to say
+screw it.
+But, you know,
+I'm like being
+able to do some
+troubleshooting
+and realize
+that it's not the
+tanks.
+It's not regulated.
+So, I've had
+some success doing
+the same thing before
+with other regulated
+stuff that you're
+going to throw
+on this guy in
+the same thing
+as well.
+But, hope, hope,
+hope.
+You can order parts.
+Like I said, I
+wouldn't pay you more than
+150 bucks for parts.
+You can pay
+what for parts
+from one site to
+the other.
+So, shop around.
+Get the part
+number.
+Get the part number
+that not the website
+uses, but the part
+number of the actual
+part.
+Start research
+for that.
+Any of the other
+other part numbers you
+get from the
+results of that
+search.
+Aftermarket
+part number are
+third-party
+parking numbers.
+It's just like four
+people that make this crap.
+So, really, there's
+only like a handful
+of actual different
+kinds of regulators
+for the market
+that's, you know,
+your home
+people.
+Piece of garbage.
+Real.
+Anyways.
+Hope
+that helps you out.
+You'll have a good one
+and stay safe
+and whatnot.
+Get some grilling.
+Later.
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