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1970’s Electric Char-B-Que

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Hepcats Haven

I have always been a fan of vintage BBQ’s. It is such a unique experience cooking on some of these grills.

I came across this space age looking grill on eBay. The shape was so unique and

I thought it would be a nice piece to add to our collection.

This is in surprisingly good shape considering its age. I don’t think it saw much use.

The electric heating element is under the lava rock. I already took soap and

a scrubber to the whole thing and it cleaned up really well.

The first thing I plan to cook on here is herb crusted salmon fillets. I can’t wait to fire this thing up!

We were fortunate that the seller on eBay had some of the original paperwork.

In the above image you see that it originally had a stand! Bummer, I wish I had that piece to complete the set. If anybody has the stand for sale, let us know.

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Royal Chef Restoration

Posted on February 4, 2014 by Hepcats Haven

Here is our Royal Chef as we purchased it. As you can see, there is a lot of surface rust and dirt.

The first thing I did was break the whole grill down so I could start the painting process.

Unfortunately, there are not many color choices when it comes to high temperature BBQ paint. I was able to find a gun steel blue high temperature spray paint online. I also wanted to buy high temperature primer as well.

Here is the main body of the grill in primer.

After the primer had dried, I painted it. I do like the color. It may be hard to tell, but there is a metal flake in the paint.

After a lot of sanding and cleaning, I managed to get the whole grill repainted. I reassembled it and here it is!

I painted the inside of the grill with black grill paint. I also refinished the rotisserie and got it working again!

I am soo glad the paint isn’t in a flat finish, more like something between eggshell and semigloss.

I am very happy with the coverage of this paint. This lower tray had a lot of surface rust. The paint and primer makes it look like new.

I think I will take this over to my upholstery guy Bill from B&T Upholstery to make a cover for it. I will have him sew the two letters “R C” Royal Chef on the cover. Now that this is done, onto the next thing!