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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Charbroil Infrared & SRG style Cookers => Grills & Smokers => Infrared Grills => Topic started by: bbqchef on December 13, 2012, 02:56:05 PM

Title: Trough burned through
Post by: bbqchef on December 13, 2012, 02:56:05 PM

I guess this is a common problem... Sounds to me like a design/ QC issue.

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Title: Re: Trough burned through
Post by: Sam3 on December 13, 2012, 03:09:26 PM

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I see this is in the Infared forum, what model is it?

Title: Re: Trough burned through
Post by: bbqchef on December 13, 2012, 03:10:19 PM

CharBroil... It's from my Heatwave

Title: Re: Trough burned through
Post by: LostArrow on December 13, 2012, 04:50:55 PM

When weber started making flavorizer bars out of porceloin coated steel no one realized that they would fail from micro cracks in the porceloin coating caused by differential expansion between the metal & the coating.
Many higher end grills now use SS for heat deflectors in gas grills but both weber & charbroil still use porceloin steel.
The heat deflectors in my Vermont castings were porceloin steel & burned out in three years!
My SS replacements are almost 5 & will outlive the grill & me!

Title: Re: Trough burned through
Post by: CaptJack on December 13, 2012, 05:57:01 PM

the Heatwave &the RED are the same grill

http://forums.charbroil.com/index.php?topic=7335.msg76582#msg76582

Title: Re: Trough burned through
Post by: smokeasaurus on December 13, 2012, 07:37:14 PM

I read a review on-line a while back that claims the CB Infrared grills have an average life expectancy of only 3 years before the rust starts.............

Title: Re: Trough burned through
Post by: CaptJack on December 14, 2012, 09:23:29 AM

I'm not going to complain considering my 2-burner Urban RED was only $269 at HomeDepot when I bought it.
$75 for the stainless emitter trough was a great investment in the grill