[TheForge] Putting neu handles on old skillets

[Dan Tull]

Wood?????????
We're blacksmiths!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Fellenz" <sunironworks at yahoo.com>
To: "Sponsored by ABANA" <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:54 AM
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Putting neu handles on old skillets


Is there enough meat in the handle stub to drill and tap for a
throughbolt to hold on a nice wooden handle? 

JRF

--- Mike Linn <bamablacksmith at comcast.net> wrote:

> 
> Id grind off the old handle and rivet a new one on..  gotta be
> careful with 
> the riveting because you dont want to crack or break the side wall.
> 
> mike
> 
> 
> At 08:40 AM 7/29/2005, you wrote:
> 
> >I have some old cast iron skillets with the handles broken off with
> about 1"
> >of handle left. Since my daughter likes to cook in these things, I
> thought
> >of making braded and diamond twist handles, weld a short piece of
> black iron
> >pipe and forge it around the original handle stubs. Or does anyone
> know a
> >better way to do it? I thought of grinding the old ones off and
> riveting a Y
> >shaped attachment, but that seems like a lot of work.
> >
> >Ron C
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