Preparation is one of the keys in the process of restoring or manufacturing a grill or vent. Captioned here are some grills that we will be restoring in our shop. We have tagged each of the grills so that they go back in the same opening. Often when we restore material like this there are subtle size differences that you will only note when it is time to re-install. These grills were tagged with tape in the field and with a set of dies in our shop.
The set on the right are from a David Adler apartment in Chicago, Illinois (they were originally silver plated and will be re-silvered) and the set on the left are part of about 40 grills from a home in Winnetka, Illinois on Lake Michigan (they will be done in brass).