Yes, but use some stainless rod, welding rod, 1/8" thick or so and try
and copy the grate inserts Mike Ray found(I have a pair, he kindly set
to me, they do work like a charm).

You can see pics of them, and another insert design on one of my web
pages, here:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/bilbo/Mikevan.html

Alistair

'82 westy, diesel converted to gas in '94
http://www.members.shaw.ca/albell/

On 13-Jan-06, at 7:56 AM, don spence wrote:

Any reason you can't get a piece of piano wire and bend your own?  A
simple block of wood with a couple of screws placed close together
and clamped in a vice or a "workmate" would provide a "brake" to bend
the wire. Think of a shape that would go around the points of an
asterisk  or even an "X" and you'd have something that would do the
trick.
On 13-Jan-06, at 8:36 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Westy Stove Grates
>
> I was going to ask the same question--I have one of those aluminum
> Italian
> percolators, and can't really use it. What's up with the design on
> these grills?
>
> Simple fix, I think, would be placing a square of iron mesh over
> the center
> of the grill. Not elegant, perhaps, but it would probably work.
> Doubtless
> done many times before...is there a reason for the large gap in the
> Westy
> grills?
>