NA Help find part for very old commercial gas stove

[Let'sgoflying!]

Be the hero!
Beat the amazon, googleshopping, aliB, and ebay search engines, and find this part (helping really good, pro-aviation people at the same time)

It is a ceramic diffuser under a solid-metal flat grill of a 1963 SouthBend 6-burner, two-oven gas stove.

It is much like this one with all the holes & conical diffusers....except we need size 5.00" x 5.75" not 3.75" x 4.25".

Thanks!

 

[weilke]

Have you tried to call the manufacturer ?

Parts numbers for legacy equipment are often not on the website. An older guy in a grey labcoat flipping through old maintenance manuals and cross-walk parts lists is going to be the source of your part, not the googlefu.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Calling Middleby on Monday, but as the owner of much old stuff my experience is manufacturers typically are not interested in helping you with a piddly part off an item from 60 years ago.
Was hoping for that stockpiled parts box in someone's cellar.

 

[SCCutler]

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