[TheForge] Re: Putting neu handles on old skillets

[Mike Spencer]

> I have some old cast iron skillets with the handles broken off with
> about 1" of handle left....I thought of grinding the old ones off and
> riveting a Y shaped attachment, but that seems like a lot of work.

I've had a ca. 2 quart cast iron cook pot with a nice cover in just
that condition sitting around for a decade.  Every few months I'd have
to move it to get at something else and I'd ponder how to make and
attach the replacement handle.  Every time, it seemed like a lot of
work to produce something that would be clumsy, would make the heavy pot
even heavier and would accumulate grunge.  So back on the shelf.

This spring, I found a brass handle from a copper frying pan in a
friend's junk pile.  Decision time.  Ground off the handle stub,
drilled and riveted (3/16" iron rivets).  Took less than an hour.  

Call it 80% success.  It was easy to do, it looks nice and works fine
but it no longer fits in the oven.  So I may end up doing it over some
time in the *next* decade. :-)

- Mike

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