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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 1, 2007 18:47:17 GMT 12.75
Cruising the pages of an old Farmers Almanac (1928) I came across this quick fix for cast iron pots and kettles. "Mix the white of an egg with some iron filings to make a thin paste. Apply to the crack and let it set a couple of hours." Now, I don't see how this would work, especially for long term use, but if the Farmer's Almanac said it, I believe it! I just hope, I never crack a pot and have to try it!
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Post by Paws on Mar 3, 2007 10:37:18 GMT 12.75
That must have been the Get it Ready for the Yardsale Quick Fix" Seriously though, cast iron welding rods are now available. I do not know anyone who has had a piece welded or braised though. I do not think I fhave ever seen a repaired piece either.
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Post by gsoflittledove on Mar 8, 2007 15:15:52 GMT 12.75
I have a freind, a machinest for cast iron repair (OIL PATCH) and when he is finished with it its like new. First He grinds out the crack and bevels both sides of the crack. Then he builds a furnice with fire brick around the cast iron itiom with the crack in a up spot. then he heats the iron slowly till its bright cherrie red. then he uses cast iron rods (that he makes out of iron it self) with a long oxgcen accleine tip (24 in long) and procedes to fill the crack. Now rember his main bread and butter was the old one lungers where the parts were no longer avable. He said if a cast iron cooking pot could be fixed, the time factor would be fantistic, app 5 hrs @ $100.00 per. Now the nickole rod works for cast that remains the same temp. Cooking cast, the egg will probley work just as well
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Post by Toby Benoit on Mar 8, 2007 17:36:37 GMT 12.75
"the egg will probley work just as well" At 5 hrs @ $100.00 per hr.....the damn egg better work!
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Post by Paws on Aug 6, 2007 1:15:32 GMT 12.75
I wonder if the egg will work for eBay!
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