Excellent write up and photography!
I restored an SS performer last year and it feels good to get one of these gems back into shape :thumb:
Wow! Very nice work! I'll send my next CL Weber score over to you for proper cleaning and rebuild......lol
Fantastic pictorial.
FYI to you and others, the easy off works great on the bowl and lid, but I would not use it on the alluminum/alluminized pieces (such as the ash sweep mec). It off gasses Hydrogen or something similar. Just remove those parts and clean them separately with another cleaner.