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I purchased the acclaimed, "American made", Primo XL oval grill. I purchased this table to house the grill. I guess it was too much to hope that it also was American made. It is not. It's made in China, which in itself is not a bad thing. What is bad is the fit & hardware of this table.
While the material & paint on this table are nice, that is soon forgotten when putting this table together. Two types of threaded screws are used on this unit. One type affixes into threaded inserts that are pop riveted in to the legs and support pieces. All are metric, more on this latter. The 1st 3 screws that I tried to start into the inserts would not start, and another 2 latter on did the same. The threads on the screws were fine it was the threads on the inserts that where either not tapped cleanly or where distorted when riveted in place. In any case just a little quality control would have caught this problem on 5 of 20 threaded inserts. That's a failure rate of 20%.
A 15 mile trip to the hard ware store would now interrupt the building process. Now back to the metric issue. The Lowe's in our area, (the most likely store to carry metric taps), does carry metric taps, however they only shelf the box sets. I could not purchase the particular single size that I needed, I had to purchase the set. I'm now $40.00 in the hole for that, plus gas, plus time to find them. It does not end here. When trying to gently re-tap the inserts, which are held in by the friction of the rivet fixture, it came as no surprise that the force needed to tap them was greater that the force that the rivet's could withstand. This allowed the insert to spin in place. I had no options left @ this point but to put it together with lose and ill fitting hardware that would not properly tighten. The table is not a very secure platform for the weight of this grill because of this.
The stainless steel shelves that come with this table are not properly sized. When snugging then up to the extension arms, it was found that the shelves are a bit to wide. They have to be left some what loose because if you properly tighten them the excess width of the shelf translates to a very noticeable hump in the middle of the shelf. I now can't place certain things on the shelves because they will roll off and fall to the ground.
It was convenient for Primo not to mention that the accessories such as this table are not made in America. They did so for the grill, and in my case I assumed the rest was also. You know what they say if you assume something. Shame on Primo....a great grill... on a shoddy saddle.
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This cart/table was easy to assemble and even had a extra washer. All bolts/nuts were good and the cart seems very solid with no flexing detected. I would suggest that Primo make two minor changes. The first would to lessen the sharp edges on the bottom of the stainless steel table top as they are very noticeable when moving the cart. The second change is only my preference and that would be to have two of the four wheels non swivel.One note on the assembly, after the assembly of the main frame and before installing the side tables, remove the front or back rail and slide the cooker inside. These cookers are very heavy and doing it this way should be much safer than trying to lower it into the assembled unit. Replace the removed rail and finish the assembly of cart/table.
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