12/24/2010:
Went and got Granite sealer, cleaner, polisher, and epoxy from Lowes. Since the thickness of the countertop is much narrower that the metal mounting brackets, I had to be creative to make it work - made make-shift supports for the cooktop - glue (with the epoxy) two small wood pieces to the side of drawer cabinets and below the countertop to make more contact area for the cooktop support brackets. Clamps were used to assure a strong bond.
12/25/2010:
Secured the wood pieces glued with long screws to the cabinets. Add several screw holes to the mounting metal brackets so that they can be attached to the wood pieces added, now I have enough surface to glue the metal mounting brackets to the countertop cutout.
Clean the countertop with DuPont Granite and Marble Cleaner, applied DuPont Granite and Marble Sealer - waited 30 minutes before wiping off the excess. DuPont Granite and Marble Polisher made the countertop slippery but not really more shining than before.
Ran into a little problem with the electrical connection; The junction box was placed too close to the cooktop, and the cooktop flexible conduit was not really flexible and thus can't reach the junction box properly. It took me a long while to figure out but finally bent the conduit more so that it can reach the junction from a different angle (bottom instead of the right hand side).
12/26/2010:
Connect the cooktop electrical wires (red, black, and green) to the junction box, switch on the breaker and boiled some hot water - voila, it worked. It turned out the control is fairly easy to use, just need some getting used to - cleaning the ceramic top maybe more challenging.
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