Oh Pooo :(

[PDC7]

Well i suppose it was inevitable (for me anyway) left my one touch in a windy area of the back, hooked the lid onto the side of the kettle using the fitted little hook, a lively gust of wind came, gathered up the lid and promptly dropped it onto a flag. Luckily it could have been worse, the dent and ding and scratch and my sadness was limited to a 3 inch long deformity along the lip at the bottom of the lid. Some of the coating at the damaged area is now missing, and even with the dent the lid still fits (possibly better than before) but I've now a couple of questions:

do you think this will affect performance? I still managed a beer can chicken fairly easily

is there anything i should do as some steel is now showing

and finally, anyone else damaged a lid before? What did you do?

[JEC]

Luckily not happened to me, know how annoying things like this are. If there is steel showing you should touch it up with some enamel repair paint to prevent rust. If it were me I'd be looking for a new lid on ebay or maybe pick up one of the cheap one touches in B&Q but maybe that's just my OCD. With a bit of paint it will all be fine, BBQ is supposed to be a dirty hobby and I'm sure most of the original pit masters would be laughing if they read this, they'd say "It's a pit boy, stick some meat in it and smoke it, everything will be good after that"

[derekmiller]

You are not alone. I have dropped two lids now....
I used this stuff to cover up the bare metal.

http://www.halfords.com/motoring/paints ... wwodNjQAaA

If you are anywhere near Bedford, I could let you borrow the tin, I have only used a tiny bit

[PDC7]

Thanks for the offer, but unfortunately im over in the (wild) north west (near Warrington), thanks for the advice though I work 5 mins away from a Halfords I will have to pop in tonight.

Im sure the lid will be fine, im more gutted I damaged it and its my fault, at least if the Mrs did it I could blame her! lol

[Clayfish]

Mine's done the same, a little bit of bare metal is no problem - just put some vegetable oil on it before firing it up, season it like a cast iron skillet and keep an eye on it you should be fine.