Good engine lid grills are becoming hard to find so I decided to test restoring them. Here are the results.
Firstly I had to carefully remove each bar from the grill and then have each individual bar polished (and re-anodised if required). Here are the bars after polishing.
As expected during transport, polishing and (if required) anodising, these bars are very easily bent and twisted. Each bar therefore required work. Also the polishing removes the numbers which are stamped on each bar. I thus used a spare grill to match the location of each bar on the grill.
In the mean time the grill is prepped and painted
Each bar is then individually added and adjusted to match to the correct curve and spacing between each bar. This is a time consuming process but the results I think are worth it.
I need another half hour tomorrow making some more adjustments but considering this grill was awful I am pretty happy with the results, or maybe I am being to anal
Thanks
Any feedback or comments would be much appreciated.
Alan
you have a knack of making these thing look easy 
