[RWebb]

yeh - stainless has problems - I wish my stuff was enamel.

I advise buying a used commercial blower unit and putting it outside (or in the attic) - much less noise, and you can even have a hood made for you at a sheet metal shop - or buy a busted one and gut the motor.

I wish I'd done that, but I believed the hype about the quietest most powerful vent hood (Vent-A-Hood)...