[TheForge] Putting neu handles on old skillets

[Justin Fellenz]

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--- Dan Tull <dantull at numail.org> wrote:

> Wood?????????
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> ----- 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
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> 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.
> > >
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