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SUMMIT 450 & 650
LP Gas Barbecues
Operating Guide
Read before assembly
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DANGER
If you smell gas:
1 Shut off gas to the appliance.
2 Extinguish any open flames.
WARNING: Follow all leak-check
3 Open lid
procedures carefully in this manual prior to
4 If odour continues, keep away from the
barbecue operation. Do this even if
appliance and immediately call your gas
barbecue was dealer assembled.
supplier or your fire service.
Leaking gas may cause a fire or explosion
WARN
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DANGER Failure to follow the Dangers, Warnings and Cautions contained in this Owner’s Manual may result in serious bodily injury or death, or in a fire or an explosion causing damage to property. WARNINGS Do not store a spare or disconnected liquid propane cylinder under or near this barbecue. Improper assembly may be dangerous. Please carefully follow the assembly instructions in this manual. After a period of storage, and/or nonuse, the Weber Gas Barbecue should be checked for gas leak
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Warnings 2 Steam-N-Chips Smoker 10 Warranty 4 Refilling The Liquid Propane Cylinder 11 Important LP Cylinder Information 11 A Word of Thanks 4 Connect Then Filled General Instructions 5 Liquid Propane Cylinder 11-12 Safe Handling Tips For Liquid Operating Area 5 Propane Gas Cylinders 12 Storage 5 *REFER TO YOUR STEP-BY-STEP SECTION AT General Maintenance 13-16 THIS TIME Spider/Insect Screens 13 Lighting 6-7 Inspection and Cleaning of the Spider/Insect Screens 13 Crossover I
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WARRANTY Weber-Stephen Products Co. (Weber) hereby warrants to the ORIGINAL PURCHASER of this Weber Gas Grill that it will be free of defects in material and workmanship from the date of purchase as follows: Aluminum Castings, lifetime, 1 year paint Cooking Grates, 7 years no rust through Flavorizer Bars, 7 year no rust through All Remaining Parts, 5 years, when assembled and operated in accordance with the printed instructions accompanying it. Weber may require reasonable proof of your date of
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GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS Your Weber Gas Barbecue is a portable outdoor cooking • LP cylinders must be stored outdoors in a well- appliance. With the Weber Gas Barbecue you can grill, ventilated area out of the reach of children. barbecue, roast and bake with results that are difficult to Disconnected LP cylinders must not be stored in a duplicate with indoor kitchen appliances. The closed lid building, garage or any other enclosed area. and Flavorizer® Bars produce that “outdoor” flavor in the • Whe
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LIGHTING EACH HEAT ZONE OPERATES INDEPENDENTLY Crossover Ignition System 1 Summary lighting instructions are on the control panel. DANGER Failure to open the lid while igniting the barbecue’s burners, or not waiting 5 minutes to allow the gas to clear if the barbecue does not light, may result in an explosive flare-up which can cause serious bodily 3 injury or death. Crossover Ignition® System Note - The Crossover Ignition System ignites the Front 2 burner with a spark from the igniter electrod
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3) Turn the cylinder on by turning the cylinder valve 1) Open the lid. anticlockwise. 2) Make sure all burner control knobs are turned OFF. (Push WARNING: Do not lean over the open barbecue. each burner control knob down and turn clockwise.) Keep your face and body at least one foot away from WARNING: The storage space under the cooking the matchlight hole when lighting the barbecue. module is intended for storage of nonflammable 4) Select Heat Zone. items only. 5) Push LEFT burner control kn
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3) Turn the tank on by turning the tank valve 9) Observe if LEFT burner has ignited by looking counterclockwise. through matchlight hole. 4) Select heat zone. WARNING: If LEFT burner fails to ignite turn LEFT burner control knob to OFF and wait 5 minutes before 5) Put a match in the match holder and strike the match. attempting to ignite again. 6) Insert match holder and lit match through matchlight 10) After the LEFT burner is lit you can turn on the hole to ignite LEFT burner. RIGHT burner.
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COOKING CLEANING WARNING: Turn your Weber Gas Barbecue OFF and WARNING: Do not move the Weber Gas Barbecue wait for it to cool before cleaning. when operating or hot. CAUTION: Do not clean your Flavorizer® Bars or NOTE: If barbeque looses heat while cooking refer to cooking grates in a self-cleaning oven. For availability the troubleshooting section of this manual. of replacement cooking grates and Flavorizer Bars contact the Customer Service Representative in your You can adjust the LEFT and
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USING THE STEAM-N-CHIPS SMOKER The Steam-N-Chips Smoker cooks with both Weber DANGER FireSpice Wood Chips and Chunks. For best results with Do not use any flammable fluid in the faster cooking foods like steaks, burgers and chops, etc., we recommend using the FireSpice Chips because they Steam-N-Chips Smoker to ignite the wood. ignite and create smoke faster. For longer cooking foods This will cause serious bodily injury. such as roasts, chicken and turkeys, etc., we recommend using FireSpice
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The LP cylinder supplied with your barbecue is REFILLING THE LIQUID equipped with an OPD (Overfilling Prevention Device) and a QCC1 or Type 1 (CGA810) cylinder PROPANE CYLINDER connection. The cylinder connection is compatible We recommend that you refill the LP cylinder before it is with the barbecue connection. completely empty. This is a secondary device to prevent the overfilling of Removal of the LP cylinder your LP cylinder. The proper filling methods for the 1) Close cylinder valve (turn
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Hook the liquid propane cylinder onto the fuel gauge. • To fill, take the LP cylinder to an RV center, or look up Loosen the cylinder lock wing nut. Swing the cylinder lock "gas-propane" in the phone book for other sources of down. Tighten the wing nut. LP gas. Remove plastic dust cover from the fuel cylinder valve. • WARNING: We recommend that your LP cylinder be filled at an authorized LP gas dealer, by a Screw the regulator coupling onto the cylinder valve(1), qualified attendant, who fills
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Liquid Propane Cylinder requirements The burner tube air shutter is fitted with a stainless steel screen(1) to prevent spiders and other insects access to • Replacement LP cylinders supplied by Weber satisfy the burner tubes through the air shutter openings. the above requirements. Check to be sure other cylinders have a D.O.T. certification(1), and date tested(2) is within five years. Your LP gas supplier can do this for you. If you have questions about spare LP cylinders (1) DOT 4BA240 00/00
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GENERAL MAINTENANCE Replacing Main Burners Main Burner Flame Pattern 1. Your Weber Gas Barbecue must be OFF and cool. The Weber Gas Barbecue burners have been factory set 2. Turn OFF gas at source. for the correct air and gas mixture. The correct flame pattern is shown. 3. Disconnect regulator. 1) Burner tube 4. To remove control panel refer to “Remove the control 2) Tips occasionally flicker yellow panel and the front panel” in the Step-By-Step Guide. 3) Light blue 5. Remove cooking grates. 4)
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GENERAL MAINTENANCE 9. Pull the manifold(1) out of the burners. 10. Slide the burner assembly from each Heat Zone. The left and right burners are connected by the Crossover tube. Summit 450 (1) Pull out of here Crossover tube Summit 650 Figure 13 15
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GENERAL MAINTENANCE 11. Lift and twist the burner assembly slightly to separate Crossover® Ignition System Operations the crossover tube(1) from the burners. Remove the burners from the cooking box. If the Crossover Ignition System fails to ignite the Left Separate here burner, light the Left burner with a match. If the Left burner lights with a match, then check the Crossover Ignition System. • Check that both the white(1) and black(2) ignition wires are attached properly. (1) 12. To reinstall
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TROUBLESHOOTING Problem Check Cure Burners burn with a yellow or orange flame, Inspect Spider/Insect Screens for Clean Spider/Insect Screens and in conjunction with the smell of gas. possible obstructions. (Blockage inspect burners. (See Maintenance of holes.) Section.) Burner does not light, or flame is low in Is LP fuel low or empty? Refill LP tank. HIGH position. Is fuel hose bent or kinked? Straighten fuel hose. Does the Left burner light with a If you can light the Left burner with match? a
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PATENTS & TRADEMARKS © 2000 Weber-Stephen Products Co. Weber, the silhouette, Flavorizer and Crossover are registered ® U.S. trademarks; Summit, Grill Cozy, Gas Catcher, Spider Stopper, and Steam-N-Chips, are trademarks, all of Weber-Stephen Products Co., 200 East Daniels Road, Palatine, IL 60067-6266. U.S.A. Summit Series Gas Barbecues are covered by U.S. Patent Nos. 4,677,964; 4,727,853; 4,777,927; 4,829,978; 4,860,724; 4,941,817; and 4,966,125; and, Canada patent Nos. 1,283,586 and 1,300
