well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I've got a little bit of a project on the goal
here and it's a modification to my black stone grille from one season to the next I leave my
black stone grill outside with the cover on it and there's some challenges when you do that the
cover stays on does not blow off but I'm doing a modification to improve it immensely the problem
that I ran into was when you have the cover on the black stone grille and it's left outdoors
for all you people who just like cook underneath your carport or that kind of stuff while this
wouldn't really apply to you but if you do use it in an outdoor atmosphere like I do I leave it up
my camp and I put the cover on it and it's got a couple of straps underneath so it won't blow off
or anything so that you know it's very well-made cover but I'm going to show you the reason that
I'm making a modification to it that has to do with the rain it has to do with the snow and the
ice and everything else that's out there over the wintertime and throughout the season so let's get
to it and I'll show you exactly what I got going on here okö so there you go you can see the black
stone grill cover I've got the the official black stone cover and I'll just show you here
just briefly on the underside here it's like a rubberized type of material and it does a terrific
job at sealing it off so no it doesn't leak and that kind of stuff but this is the problem guys
is you could see how it sits down flat on the grill and when you have a couple of feet of snow
on there or it's pouring down rain well that's not so easy especially trying to get that cover
off with a whole bunch of snow on it and I don't believe like I hold to grill up pretty good and
I think over the long term I'm going to get a lot of condensation under there and I'm going
to start rusting out the grill top so this is my idea you guys take a look at this and see what
you think well that's it right there guys that is a half inch piece of special type of plastic that
came in a four by eight sheet I bought that many many many years ago and I'm gonna work on that
today I mean you use my router and I'm gonna show you exactly what's going on but I'll give
you a better look at this plastic and see what the purpose of it is and how I'm going to use
it okay so this is the plastic here and guys this stuff here is pretty well indestructible I bought
this from a small little company just salt the Rice Lake Ontario I believe the town was called
Fraser ville has to be twenty years ago I don't even alter in business anymore but they used we
used to have the white milk jugs we still do in some places you know but you know the white milk
jugs well that's what this is made out of four by eight sheets of the white milk jokes and they were
all just like melted down and compressed and the four by eight sheets this is my last piece that
I have and what I did was you can see there is I put some lines and I'm gonna make a slot with
the router all the way along so it fits right on the grill nice so that the grill cover does
not touch the grill itself because you know what guys the underside of that cover is pretty gooey
you know from oil on there and everything else and I think for sure it's gonna deteriorate over time
that cover so I'd like to I cleaned the cover up route really good on the inside that he's got a
rubberized membrane and I'm gonna put this on top and I thought this is the best material for that
like plywood and that kind of stuff now I'm not thinking it would be too you know so great and
remember you have to have a material underneath there that when the Sun is beating down on it
you're not getting a lot of condensation on that on the underside where it sweats and drips down
onto the grill you really wouldn't want that and plywood does absorb a lot of moisture and
to keep the moisture away from it I didn't want it all rusting around the outside I'll show you
what's gonna look like but let's get to this a little bit of a of a modification here and I'm
gonna wrote out the top here and I'm gonna show you how it looks and you guys let me know what
you think of this idea well the way I figure it is when I drew the line all the way around the
grille part this is all on the outside so I have to router all on the inside and just get a bit
of this line here so we'll just free will it and I've got a little bit less than a quarter of an
inch router bit better we'll just plunge it in and just freewheel it around let's see how we don't
okay let's just take a look at that first then I'll I'll do the rest after let's take
a look at see what that looks like okay so here's where we started great here and how
is this stuff coming out guys this coming out okay it's coming out okay so I know fine
that's good okay so I'll finish doing this and I'll bring you back and see how she fits okay
Plan B I had to go back and use a straightedge guys there's no way I could do that freehand it
just wasn't happening I had to straighten out them edges because this thing here is
perfectly square I've tried to fall in line at best I could but no no I had to go back
to plan D so let's just fit her on here and just mixing them grooves right nice I'm just
going to round off these corners and that's pretty well it so what do you think guys I
think it's a good little mod that covers going to go over top there and it's not going to get
greasy on the backside anymore and the water is going to flow off and I think it's going
to be a good idea what do you guys think leave a comment down below what do you think guys thanks
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