I know this is a longshot, but...

Pork N Stein

Any Eggers in the Dallas/Ft Worth area have a spare base for a Large they'd be willing to sell? or perhaps knows of a distributor or dealer in the area who has a blemished or demo base they'd be willing to sell at a discount? Not a warranty claim replacement scenario in this case, and from my understanding the base is the lion's share of the cost of a complete unit so I thought I'd check here before scraping together enough clams for a new base. The dome, internals, etc, are all fine so I'd like to try to put this one back to work if I can.