[TheForge] Re: Putting neu handles on old

[Bob Ehrenberger]

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