[TheForge] Re: Putting neu handles on old

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

I think it's best that we draw the line right here!
Because if we take it just a bit farther, the kitchen 
utility of duck-neb tongs will be revealed and my only 
pair will never see the forge again.
A man has to set some limits.....Pete F

Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> I have a flat griddle that we broke the bake-lite handle on more than 25
> years ago.  I needed to use it right away so dug through my junk pile and
> came up with a piece of gas pipe welded to a flat bracket that I had
> scavanged out of a gas dryer that I junked.  I cut the pipe to about 7" and
> bent the bracket to fit the stub of the griddle where the handle goes. I
> drilled a hole in the bracket and attached it to the griddle using the same
> screw that had held the bake-lite handle.
> 
> We have used it that way for so long I had totally forgotten that it was a
> home made handle.  Now that I'm into blacksmithing I think I could fashion a
> much nicer handle.
> 
> As far as removeable handles go, We have a device that looks like a pair of
> pliers.  It has wide flat jaws set at an angle, maybe 70/80 degs, so the
> pliers are level when clamped on the edge of a pan.  I was told that they
> were made to warm up a plate of food on the stove or in the oven when people
> used tin plates.  I keep them on the warming shelf of our wood burning
> stove, but rairly remember to use them.
> 
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
> 
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