Harbormaster
somebody shut me the fark up.
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So about a year ago, I scored a "C" WSM on Craigs List. It's been sitting in the shed waiting for me to get around to cleaning it up.
Over the course of the last few nights I have scrubbed the dome and center section clean, and I took the legs off of the charcoal bowl to give it a thorough cleaning and get the intake vents fixed and shaped. (All of the stop tabs were bent over and the daisy wheels didn't hug the bowl.)
As I worked on one of the vents and got some of the gunk off, I noticed it had both a "C" stamp and a "D" stamp. This was only on one vent. All of the other vents are stamped only with a "C".
Also, the handle has only one screw, and the charcoal ring has two sets of holes around it. The "C"s were only supposed to have one set of holes in the charcoal ring. I'm thinking this one was made in late 1981 early 1982 and had some parts from both years.
Here are some pics.
First, just a shot of the WSM.
The original handle.
The dual date code bottom vent.
And upon closer inspection, what I originally thought was a scratch on the top vent turned out to be a part of a second date stamp. You can make it out to the lower left of the rivet.
So, there you go. A "C" WSM with two vents that have dual date stamps.
Over the course of the last few nights I have scrubbed the dome and center section clean, and I took the legs off of the charcoal bowl to give it a thorough cleaning and get the intake vents fixed and shaped. (All of the stop tabs were bent over and the daisy wheels didn't hug the bowl.)
As I worked on one of the vents and got some of the gunk off, I noticed it had both a "C" stamp and a "D" stamp. This was only on one vent. All of the other vents are stamped only with a "C".
Also, the handle has only one screw, and the charcoal ring has two sets of holes around it. The "C"s were only supposed to have one set of holes in the charcoal ring. I'm thinking this one was made in late 1981 early 1982 and had some parts from both years.
Here are some pics.
First, just a shot of the WSM.
The original handle.
The dual date code bottom vent.
And upon closer inspection, what I originally thought was a scratch on the top vent turned out to be a part of a second date stamp. You can make it out to the lower left of the rivet.
So, there you go. A "C" WSM with two vents that have dual date stamps.
