I Mike,

I forget some of the details but my understanding is the all the brown knobs
have the same shaft size and all the grey knobs have the same shaft size but
different from the brown ones.

You can still buy brown knobs, so if you muck yours up, you can get
replacements at BusDepot or Bus-Boys and maybe GoWesty for $7-8/ea

I am using dimmer light knobs $3/ea from Lowes because I never could find
the grey ones.

>From: Michael Diehr <md03@XOCHI.COM>
>Reply-To: Michael Diehr <md03@XOCHI.COM>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: Stove Knobs -- 2 sizes?
>Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:01:08 -0800
>
>Hi Dave,
>
>Just to be clear -- you think the 85-86 knobs are the ones with the
>smaller shafts, and the 87-91 ones are larger diameter?   Are the
>larger ones available in brown?  thx
>
>On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:23 AM, Dave Vickery wrote:
>
>>There are two sizes.  I bet the stems you bought originally had the
>>87-91
>>grey knobs.  Those are impossible to find, so you will probably
>>have to try
>>to make yours fit or think of something else..
>>
>>
>>>From: Michael Diehr <md03@XOCHI.COM>
>>>Reply-To: Michael Diehr <md03@XOCHI.COM>
>>>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>Subject: Stove Knobs -- 2 sizes?
>>>Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:02:05 -0800
>>>
>>>I just replaced the 2 burners on my 85 westy stove with ones bought
>>>off ebay.   All works fine, except the stems on the replacement unit
>>>are larger diameter, so the knobs don't seem to fit.   Does anyone
>>>know if there are 2 sizes of knobs?  Or do you just have to push
>>>really hard and/or ream out the knob to make it fit?