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my mini just died

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  • Morro Bay Rich
    Morro Bay Rich Posts: 2,227
    WOW!!

    Sure hope mine doesn't do the same. Smitty at Eggs by the Bay here in California is my dealer but I bought my Mini new at the Mothership in Tucker at the 2008 Octoberfest. I wonder what that will do to my "life-time" guarantee.

    My Mini is sitting on a wooden table I guess I will be keeping much closer watch on it from now on.
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    oh thats a bummer ,, i have spoken with bruce before good guy he is ..
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  • Ripnem
    Ripnem Posts: 5,511
    Finish the cook :laugh: your killin me. :ohmy:

    His egg broke the flock in half.................. :huh:

    I don't think I like the hanging stand any longer. :whistle:
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  • Angela
    Angela Posts: 545
    woah those are some pictures!

    Sorry it happened and hope you get your replacement ASAP
    Egging on two larges + 36" Blackstone griddle
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    dealers are my friends [woodburners] and walter the distributer is a good guy i am about to e-mail him,, store is 3 miles away
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    do you have a pic that is captioned with profanities??
    once i recovered from the shock .... it was one of my better strings of explitives :laugh:
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  • cookn biker
    cookn biker Posts: 13,407
    Already there buddy!! :laugh: I'm using mine today but for a low and slow. Whew!
    Molly
    Colorado Springs
    "Loney Queen"
    "Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
    Bill Bradley; American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
    LBGE, MBGE, SBGE , MiniBGE and a Mini Mini BGE
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  • Morro Bay Rich
    Morro Bay Rich Posts: 2,227
    This is without doubt THE MOST USEFUL post I've seen here. I can't thank you enough for pointing up this potentially dangerous situation. :(

    THANK YOU, again. :):)
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  • cookn biker
    cookn biker Posts: 13,407
    I know I don't like any more!! :laugh:
    Molly
    Colorado Springs
    "Loney Queen"
    "Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
    Bill Bradley; American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
    LBGE, MBGE, SBGE , MiniBGE and a Mini Mini BGE
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  • cookn biker
    cookn biker Posts: 13,407
    :laugh: :laugh: B)
    Molly
    Colorado Springs
    "Loney Queen"
    "Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it."
    Bill Bradley; American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, former U.S. Senator from New Jersey
    LBGE, MBGE, SBGE , MiniBGE and a Mini Mini BGE
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  • Celtic Wolf
    Celtic Wolf Posts: 9,773
    I agree with you..

    My mini will be sitting on it's feet and not the stand.
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  • Hungry Celeste
    Hungry Celeste Posts: 534
    Yes, indeed, thanks for posting. I currently have my Mini on feet atop a metal table--I was actually considering the purchase of the stand. No more! I'll stick with the feet.
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  • Morro Bay Rich
    Morro Bay Rich Posts: 2,227
    Good suggestion, Pete.
    This is specially appropriate as I was just getting ready to fire the Mini up.
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    my pleasure ... will be back shortly with more pix
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  • Florida Grillin Girl
    Florida Grillin Girl Posts: 5,013
    That is just a shame and I am very glad you didn't get hurt or burn your house down. I never liked that stand and didn't buy one when I got my mini. I hope they redesign it now.

    Faith
    Happily egging on my original large BGE since 1996... now the owner of 5 eggs. Call me crazy, everyone else does!
     
    3 Large, 1 Small, 1 well-used Mini
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
    Bill bad day for the mini's.
    Busted my ceramic top--- YOU WIN :ohmy:
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    i win thanks a lot just what i wanted to win this sundays broken egg contest :laugh: :laugh:
    serioulsy ,,, if i get a new egg instead of just the base you can have the new top.. i should know in a few days
    bill
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  • TNmike
    TNmike Posts: 643
    Looks like I'll be taking my mini stand to work and do some fab work. Not sure what I'll do yet but it will be setting on something and not hanging. Mine is now on our wood deck in the stand and setting on a paver.

    Thanks for the heads up and pictures!!! Mike
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  • Unknown
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    let me know if you want any different views etc
    thanks for all the kind words ,, i am ok now teh medication is working

    mini006.jpg

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  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    bill,

    That is awful! If that happened to mine I would have had another fire. That setup will change promptly.

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

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  • Fidel
    Fidel Posts: 10,172
    That discoloration from the outer edge seeping inward looks like this issue was actually festering for a while before it finally gave. I may be wrong, but it just seems strange to me.

    (3rd picture down on the right side of the egg)
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    have to see if bubba tim can make up pin for an award titled ... The Fidel Eagle Eyed S.O.B.
    seriously .. you are on to something. interestingly the majority of the grease is on the upper half very little on the lower. the mini has only left home once and it was packed in a styrafoam shipping cooler.. so oi do not expect it was from trauma.
    i think i will put the whole thing in the house so the rain and weather do not effect the evidence ,, the post mortem continues....

    mini013-1.jpg

    mini014-1.jpg

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    mini016.jpg
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
    Bill thanks..
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    i think that is wise at least until we know more. i have been doing pizza's and indirects for a while but it has been in the stand less than a month... and you surely do not need more trouble..
    do you want me to try to sneak some fresh habeneros thru customs via priority mail?
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  • Little Steven
    Little Steven Posts: 28,817
    bill,

    I can get habaneros locally. I still have to finish a package for you.

    Steve

    Steve 

    Caledon, ON

     

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  • SmokinParrotHead
    SmokinParrotHead Posts: 532
    Steven.....I hope I am not conjuring up bad memories of something.....but you have me curious.....did you say "another" fire? What happened?
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  • BobS
    BobS Posts: 2,485
    That is a real shame! I would take the base to the dealer too, so that they can verify that the dimensions are correct.
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  • Squeeze
    Squeeze Posts: 717
    It was cracked before it broke. You can see that by the stain that is present in pictures 3 and 4. A thermal crack would yield one that is clean with no discoloring of the ceramics. It looks like this may have been cracked for a while and judging by the drippings down the glaze, those are what got into the crack....
    Kevin Jacques
    The University of Que L.L.C. ®
    Killen, AL
    www.uofque.com

    Take Your Taste Buds to School!
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  • lowercasebill
    lowercasebill Posts: 5,218
    i agree but since the crack parallels the stand ,, do you think that was the start of it ??? and todays cook was just the last straw? the truama fractures , like the one Ripnem posted, are not in a staight line. let me know if you want to see more pix
    bill
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  • Squeeze
    Squeeze Posts: 717
    I doubt it, the crack was started by some sort of trauma...dropping the mini into the stand too hard, jostling around, many things. The crack would not have been made by the heat alone, that helped finish what was started. Somewhere, something happened that was hidden by the stand and this was the last straw unfortunately.
    Kevin Jacques
    The University of Que L.L.C. ®
    Killen, AL
    www.uofque.com

    Take Your Taste Buds to School!
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