"RichK" wrote in message
If you can't fix it cheaply - give up on the over the stove type. Way too
expensive. Replace it with an exhaust hood and get a countertop model.
You'll have beer moeny left over.

Most of us that use OTR models do so because we don't have much choice. I'd
much rather have a $70 counter model, but I just don't have the counter to
sacrifice.