[TheForge] R: Pot

[Mike Spencer]

Forty years ago, a wide variety of enamelware were articles of common
trade here, including "cowboy" coffee pots and dishpans.  We nursed an
aging, chipped enamel dishpan along for years with JB Weld patches.  I
finally gave up and went looking for another.  There's now a new
selection of enamelware in the hardware store, mostly items that would
look cute and old-timey on display, but no dishpans.  I finally got
totally PO'ed and made a dishpan out of 16 ga. m/s: truncated cone,
flange hammered over, small end hammered into curve, disk welded in
for a bottom.  Weighs maybe 4 times as much as the enamelware version
but is indestructo.  Rust isn't a problem if we wipe it down after
use.

Not pretty but 100% functional.  (There was a reason, I guess, why my
then girlfriend circa 1961 gave me a jewelry store cufflink box for
Christmas.  It contained two new black 3/8" square head bolts with
nuts.  And yes, point made, she gave me the real monogrammed,
sterling links later. :-)

Dang.  I wish I had the skills to be as cranky, independent and
self-reliant WRT the out-of-production boots that I can't find any
more of anywhere.

BTW, I read in a welding book that you can do something like enamel
with a plasma arc gun and suitable frit in the hopper.  Anybody here
ever do that or see it done?  What's the result like?



- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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