California. San Fagkissco, I presume, judging by the fuel used by your Weber.......:eek:

No gas, no briquettes, hwz about aviation MEK?
 

So anyway, I picked up a 55 gal drum to turn into a cooker. I cut a door hole in the top and a vent hole in the side and put it on end in my Dad's driveway. It still had oil residue in it so I grabbed a tin of MEK, sloshed it around the side, and threw in a match.

FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM (not poof!)

A tornado of fire, oil smoke, MEK, and burned hair spiralled into the night. This was a crowded suburb. I estimate the height approached 15 feet. After about five minutes, the bottom of the barrel started to glow red and it slowly sank into the asphalt driveway. It took about 20 minutes to go out. The ring mark stayed in the driveway for a good ten years.

Fun, fun, fun.:ok:

Excellent!

Fire, smoke and fury - that's the way. But preferably without the China Syndrome of your thermonuclear device!

How exciting! Time to dust off the trusty Outback then - just a flick of a switch, eh Beags?!

Shirt sleeve weather (finally!), some filets wrapped in bacon, some sort of lemony drink with vodka courtesy of 'her indoors,' fire, smoke, another lemony drink with vodka while on fire watch.


It's a good day...

Chaps,

If I may; does anyone know how much a nice Weber '1 Touch' Silver retails at in the US of A? Or even if they're available in BXs? Unfortunately I don't get out and about as much these days and Google as not been my friend. I wonder if its worth grabbing a bargain?? :cool:

Ta.

$89.70 + tax at Home Depot.
Weber One-Touch Silver 22.5 In. Black Charcoal Kettle Grill - 741001 at The Home Depot

Regrettably bargains are few and far between in the States at the moment.....exchange rate is a killer.....

Flip. Its looking like I'll have to fork out £100 of Her Majesty's Finest then, to join the Weber club... Hey ho.:eek:

Co-Captain

22.5" One Touch Silver, BX, $85 just recently. Still dollars for pounds and the exchange rate is back to $1.5:£1.00, so still a reasonable bargain.

Cheers Roland :ok:

Perhaps worth noting that, to fill the blackfellow with charcoal to the same level, a 22.5 in needs nearly twice as much as an 18.5 in model....

Hissing down here again, so the little black chap will stay cold for the weekend.

Glad to see that your new job has a few perks still, Roly!

I have got Twin Webers and I am having trouble inserting the sausages. Any ideas........?:)

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...f_DSC03760.jpg

Ah, twin '40 DCOEs.

Like most things Italian, a sexy-looking and overcomplicated method of turning fuel into noise and a marginal power increase.

But hell, they look good!

Double wrap in foil then place in the valley next to the plugs about 20 miles in a Land Rover, about 80 miles in that.:)

What a great thread. Missed it before.

My trusty is now 23 yrs old. These days it gets used once a year and sits out in the weather for the rest of the time.

However, when the Boxing Day Test comes around it gets pressed back into service. Large piece of pork, large piece of beef - both size huge; troops for the use of. Plus, on the side, dozens of fresh bread rolls and salad on a 35 deg day.

The esky, which is a small 180 litre variety, and only gets used as often as the Webber, gets stacked with 15 cartons of cans and 10 bags of ice.

The drunks from my son's grade club, plus 50 hangers-on, turn up to watch the first ball and spend the rest of the day gorging themselves, falling in the pool, and draining the 'small' esky. However, for the most part it's about the cricket and we have a TV outside so that everyone can eat, drink, swim, drink, eat, swim and watch us hammering the opposition. Well, that was until those bloody South Africans taught us that we may not be as good as we thought we were. Bustards!

Notwithstanding, the success of the day, which my son says is now a tradition (8 yrs worth- and he started it), is all down to that glorious piece of metal. Nothing cooks finer than a joint on the Webber. Or two joints.

Any true believers in the real game (one-day sucks and 20/20 is for the mentally challenged - those that use gas Webbers), who may be travelling the world are welcome to drop in next Boxing Day. However, if you are South African, please keep gloating to a minimum. And don't bring any of that p1ss you call beer.

Great thread!

Usually those are used as compensation for a lack of sausages, aren't they? :}

....and that's why it's called an old banger :}

OLD BANGER!!

How dare you Sir.

I enclose a picture of The real Old Banger in the Pyrenees..........

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/l...Pyranees12.jpg

Also my Twin Weber is one of the fastest ways to go and get more bangers, and I do not need to lay mine down along the top of the engine to get it started - the banger I mean not the car...............I think...........?:)

Keep oiling your bangers chaps...............

I'm sure that you enjoy your ride very much sir.

......and I hope that you avoid burning your banger :ooh: