Pan Scourers

[Will_D]

This is not so musch a "How do I" but more of a "How do They"?

New Year so its time to get the auld grey cells working!

I am doing the washing up and usin a stainless steel pan scourer (i.e. a wad of SS swarf)

However its NOT swarf - my SS swarf will cut you piecs so:

"How do they do it"

Looks like "Long Stringy Ba****ds" to quote Doubleboost but they are not razor sharp

If I could make some myself from SS I could save the household budget about €5 a year

[awemawson]

Sad isn't it - I've had the same thoughts washing pans with them. I expect it's perhaps drawn out as a tape through dies rather than cut.

Incidentally they are useful in the workshop - I got into trouble stealing some from the house to clean up my Wire EDM machine stainless steel base that was caked in metallic deposits. A good scrub with one wetted in diluted citric acid worked a treat.

[philf]

Will,

Just Google "How do they make stainless steel pan scourers?"

There are loads of videos. All seem to use round wire to start with and the first stage is to roll it into a flat ribbon - hence why it doesn't cut you to ribbons. Thereafter there seems to be several methods of getting it into a scourer. One video shows the ribbon being knitted into a tube before being manually rolled into a donut shape before being tied off.

It's another of those everyday items you just take for granted.

One of my favourite TV programmes is How It's Made but I don't think I've seen pan scourers being made on that.

 

Phil.

[awemawson]

Well an amazing 'Knitting Nancy' knitting machine they've created there, and it seems to work - but did you see the welding on that machine   

[SwarfnStuff]

Oh dear, Just flashed back 50 years or so to the knitwear factory where I started my working life. Circular knitting machines by the score but the 'sock' they knitted was 18" dia or so with some 48 spools of thread and several hundred latches, (if not thousands). The old brain cells can't recall the actual numbers as not my department.
   John B

[studders]

did you see the welding on that machine   

Yes, I spotted that too. Makes me feel so much better knowing someone is worse at welding than me.

[Manxmodder]

Well an amazing 'Knitting Nancy' knitting machine they've created there, and it seems to work - but did you see the welding on that machine   

I guess their welding dept is too poor to afford a stack of dimes.......OZ.