Tinkering with Pots and Pans

[awemawson]

As many of you will know having followed some of my recent projects I have very little to do all day (NOT!)

So some of my friends bring me 'can you just . . ' things to sort out to stop me getting bored (or is that to stop me getting on!)

One such job came in a couple of days ago - two stainless steel sauce pans, both of which had detached handles as it would seem that the attaching rivets had dissolved  Could I weld them back together 


. . .well no, the correct thing to do is to re-rivet them. Now my stock of stainless steel rivets is ZERO, and my stock of stainless steel bar approaches zero, but I did manage to find an odd bit of 'something not very magnetic' that is probably stainless from which I might JUST squeeze four rivets if I'm careful.

No idea what the grade is - it turns passably, work hardens horribly, but we got through without breaking a parting tool, which is a distinct bonus

My initial thought was to hot set them, but manipulating the torch, a hammer, a rivet and pan and handle, especially as the rivets going through the handle radially were difficult to put in, made me change my mind and cold set them over the beak of the anvil. They came out passably, but for the second pan I did extend the shank of the rivet 1.5 mm as the first was touch and go and involved marring the handle.

They've come out OK.

I suspect that a dish washer was responsible for the previous ones dissolving, so there is no guessing how long these will last !

[NormanV]

I am very lucky, I have only lived in my current house for a couple of years and none of my neighbours is aware of my workshop facilities so I never get any 'can you just' jobs. But I do get asked to cut my neighbours hedge and lawn, that only takes a short time and earns me lots of Brownie points.

[SwarfnStuff]

Golly Andrew,
        In this day of, "toss it get new" most would toss those saucepans out. Kudos to both you and your friends for saving them there pots.
       So far I've managed to dodge the, "could you please just jobs"  - apart from family, they're a tad difficult to avoid.
     Still keeps us doing stuff.

John B

[Sea.dog]

Nicely done, Andrew.

[awemawson]

Yesterday’s ‘can you please’ was can you please make a pair of stirrups for a two year old to ride a pony as his small foot slips through normal ones.

After taking a tracing of the child’s wellie boot a simple flat design was sketched and cut in 6 mm plate on the CNC plasma table with a supporting strap that threads through and goes under. I’ll try and get a picture from his mother to explain what I mean.

[awemawson]

Picture of childs stirrup hanging on strap attached

[Sea.dog]

I think the whole child, let alone its foot, could slip through there 

The wellies have heels? If not, not a very sensible thing to be riding in.

[awemawson]

That sits in the instep of the wellie - or rather the instep sits on that and is the same width plus tolerance - and apparently they work well but I'm not into horsey things !

[Sea.dog]

If I understand you correctly you're saying that the foot is resting on the webbing with the bar across the instep?

Better than nothing I suppose.

[awemawson]

No, the webbing strap is supporting the buckle shape that supports the foot. Effectively the metal bit is just a spreader for the strap. 

If it was here I’d photo it complete with child, pony and boot, but thankfully it isn’t 

[Sea.dog]

Well, that's what I'd assumed. How is that safer then? Just because there's a solid base for the boot doesn't mean that the child's foot can't go forward and get caught in the strap.

[awemawson]

It's what the mother wanted, and sketched so I'm NOT the design authority 

[Sea.dog]

I'm not blaming you, Andrew. I just don't think that it's a solution to the problem. It's her problem.