[TheForge] R: Pot Way OT by now...

[Bruce .]

You last used it in 1973 and can still find it?  I used to be able to
do such things -- before I got married and divorced.  I'm still
missing stuff..

BTW, Andy STILL is 15 years old -- from the neck up!  I think that's
why he's so popular with the women.  It surely couldn't be his
looks...

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:
>
> Somewhere around here I have a card of widgets sold for repairing leaky
> "pots".  Lessee... yes:
>
>        National Woodenware Company Ltd.  St. Thomas, Ont.
>
>                           POT MENDERS
>
>       Complete with spanner -- No other tools or skill needed
>
> Small very-flat-headed bolt, square nut, 2 aluminum washers, 1 gasket
> paper (?) washer.  I think I last used one in 1973. [1]
>
> Not to forget that you can fix a small corrosion pit leak in an
> aluminum pot just by gently peening it shut.  Back about that same
> year, my draught horse walked all over an aluminum cook pot and ended
> up with it clenched around one shoe.  I pried it off, tink-tinked it
> back more or less into shape and peened shut a couple of holes.  Wasn't
> much of a pot after that but it didn't leak.
>
> - Mike
>
> [1] Yes Andy, you were only 15 years old.
>
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Bruce
NJ