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1.) Product states it's 17" long. I received 16-3/4" long burners which matched my OEM burners exactly. I have seen others stating they are 17-1/8" and I'm certain they would work (if they are actually that long), as there is at least 3/4" of play end to end to accept that length. For installation this is a good length. The extra room made it easier to hold the front panel while positioning the tube. I can't imagine the flame would be better / larger etc. by adding length and it matched the originals.
2.) Product weight is listed as 11 oz for one burner, 3.5 lbs for all five. At least that math was right; using a digital postage scale; one tube is 6.5 oz.or almost half the advertised weight! However, my original (used) tubes weigh 7.3 oz. now! So it seems after rust and flakes came off my old OEM burners they still weighed 10.8% more than these brand new burners. This means to me the stainless steel in the new burner is minimally 10.8% thinner and is unlikely to last as long as the OEM.
3.)My flame adjustment was nearly perfect when I aligned the leading edge of the venturi, (the chrome piece with screens that you twist counterclockwise), with the center of the crease stamped into the burner at about 9:00. This left about half the screen exposed. By "leading edge" I mean the straight edge beyond the screw slot projection. About 1/8" adjustments made a difference and 1/16" fine tuned it. For a variety of reasons it may be different for others but once I got one fine tuned, I duplicaed the others, installed and bingo-perfection. With a full tank of gas I had just a few flickers of orange above the blue cones. Initially the first burner would only light 1 side but as I got closer to the sweet spot it ignited fine on both sides. I may have played with the igniter alignment also.
4.) Initially when cleaning the grill I learned one burner was cracked and widened to 1/4" across the top in the rear, others were rusted but otherwise fine. This explained a hotspot I had trouble with. I bought this 5 pc. set for my 3 burner grill because the extra 2 burners gave me free shipping and 2 spares for an emergency and less coin than buying the 3 pc.set. The part # is the same except the suffix number indicating the number of burners. I found singles sold for under $9.00 incl. shipping that I'm hopeful will be around when I need to replace the entire set again. Obviously I'll just buy the 1 I'll need.
5.) Testing: Heat is even, flames appear precise, no hotspots except the rear is generally hotter than the front since new. I used the free space to pull the burners towards me as far as poss. to hopefully even it out with some success. Each burner lights first time almost always which is a big improvement especially for the cracked one. I then got carried away and used my orbital sander with 120 grit on the burner covers / tents and they shined up like new removing the chunks that even a wire brush wouldn't touch. I beleive this helped even the heat out eliminating hot spots even more. The whole thing looks new. Burners took 20 min. tents /burner covers 15-20 min. Stored extra burners in bottom cabinet and washed up. Less than 1 hour.
I grilled 20 strip steaks the following day and got more compliments than ever. Even those wishing for Med./Well (Ughh) received a juicy tender peace of meat and I've always had trouble on those MW requests. I simply put those on the rear burner area and didn't change the time. I had to throw one back on for 45 sec.
6.)Conclusion: I hate bad information, lies, and misleading info to the sellers advantage. They can't weigh, or measure but more importantly the burners don't mach OEM specs for metal guage. Aside from this the price was phenominal compared to others and the performance absolutely flawlessly exceptional. I have found clones, fakes, and clones of the clones! If a good clone works someone will clone it on amazon. It seems to get harder to make good buying decisions with less product info, constantly changing vendors with the same adv. and description. Cmon, can't even weigh it! How can you compare? But for me this is one that worked out well, performs for an exceptional price. Just saying it is nearly impossible to compare unless it is a leading well known brand and even then I found counterfeit. I don't know if this is counterfeit or not but for $25.00, it works well I can live with it. But as far as providing a rating the innacuracies deserve a 0, performance a 5. Performance is more important but I took the risk with the arcane way returns are handled. I looked up a previous purchases and they changed the vendor to someone I've never dealt with. This was in my purchase history try doing wty. claims with this stuff going on and nothing came with the item, no shipper, no phone, no address, no instructions.
My steaks were good, my party was a success, I was a hero. It was a quick solution received in two days, vanity wins I'll give them a 4
Happy grilling!
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