Hey Michael,

I hope you don't feel too stupid now.  The same thing happened to me.  It
took me about 6 months of tedious cleaning and scratching my hand on this
stupid grate until I finally figured out that it's easily removed.

Cheers,
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Davidson [mailto:wdavidson@thegrid.net]
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 7:55 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Cleaning around the damn grate on the stove top

The stove top grate removes easily...
either pull or push (forgot which) from the front and the prongs will
release their grip on the holes, then lift up... easy!
Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "michael schiesser" <drschiesser@bigplanet.com>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 4:04 AM
Subject: Cleaning around the damn grate on the stove top

> If anyone has been lamenting the passing of the rear hatch struts
dialogue,
> perhaps this will satisfy your need for onlineVanagon obscurity. I was
> cleaning my 89 Westy today after months of use, the inside took me nearly
3
> hours. The part of the job that is the biggest pain in the butt is
cleaning
> the stove top, because the grate that covers the toop of the stove makes
it
> really difficult to get all those crumbs and grease off of there, and
there
> is always little bits of grime around the areas where the grate mounts to
> the stainless surface. I was thinking to myself, there's gotta be somebody
> on the list serve that both knows what I'm talking about and has figured
out
> a better way to manage this.
>
> Michael Schiesser
> 89 Westfalia
> Seattle WA
>

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