Weber Q220 gas grill

rrupert wrote:

sbishop wrote:
My brother thought he would be nice and bought us a Baby Q for our condo. I hate the bloody thing. The flame is about a quarter inch high no matter what and the only thing it cooks well is brats and then on high for 25 minutes. What a piece of junk. He even bought the stand and hose to use a 20# tank and then CA outlawed that on wooden decks or next to a wooden structure on a deck. Works better on a 1# bottle but still can't sear a steak even after preheating for half an hour. Too bad Turco went under, my table top is more than twenty years old an still works fine.

There is something wrong with it. First, the bulk tank may have contaminated the regulator with the oily junk that comes out of them. That is why I mentioned above about putting a filter in line. You may have to replace the regulator. You can also remove the orifice and soak it in alcohol for a few hours to dissolve the oily substance from it. Second, when on the bulk tanks, you have to turn the tank valve on several minutes before lighting the grill. Because of the safety valve in the tank valve, the pressure has to equalize in the lines. Otherwise you will get the low flame or it will even go out. Using the #1 bottles is better because they have cleaner gas in them and do not have the safety valve in them as in the bulk tanks.

The only things I haven't done is clean the orifice and changed the regulator. I would love to see one that is suppossidly working correctly before I will do either of those things. I no longer have to worry about a 20# cylinder as the California State Fire Marshall has banned the use of them on decks with wood construction or where the building the deck is attached to is wood.

Personally I think if the mfg sells the equipment to use a bulk cylinder or tank that you shouldn't have to buy filters and clean orifices to keep them working. My Turco is cast aluminum, smaller than a Weber and works well with either the 1# or bulk cylinders and it's well over twenty years old.