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Bruce
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Hi. Very few people seem to visit this forum, which I think is a shame. Farcebook doesnt cut it for me!

To answer your question, the grills are held on by oblong “grab washers”. They also now make “starlock”round ones. I could only find metric so I had to run a rat tailed file through them to open them out a bit.

Loads on ebay. These for example

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/115458869753?itmmeta=01J2F6REP71WYQ38PDX8G01CZW&hash=item1ae1e289f9:g:dAoAAOSw4dRl-FJb&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAAwGyAQWZj%2BH8YrT5D2Amesg8oIcjfo7A2kRJndvr3vuVVMcoIMtC1hhiLmldTCFjrj8Lb4YVzskuVJNrWbTmLvyVShlFwCWVDL4A3oroshJRvpjYZ5DaWKV3nUzyS8%2FA7CZPHalqhF7jKpmFhz7YXHhjmab4hf5v5qHZ58e9rsN%2FXICyOshUKyGEmjrIKnlfAYl5mXMHkjKMHt6qLSehFcrOyIK6z6YdbYXV9o9TJTf0oZ%2B26S%2BbUNjJQIUS%2FoSGJyg%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR5rr4eaTZA