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
![:bugeye:](https://madmodder.net/Smileys/default/confused0068.gif)
Could I weld them back together
![:bang:](https://madmodder.net/Smileys/default/BangHead.gif)
. . .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
![:thumbup:](https://madmodder.net/Smileys/default/happy0034.gif)
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 !