I'll say up-front, this may be really trivial to some of you. If yes, feel free to move along...
A couple of years ago I picked up this really cool camping pot handle (or so I thought. More on that later, if you care to stay with me...)
When I got it, it looked just like this picture I snagged:
The problem is, even though I like to think I take good care of my stuff, I have been using it out at the backyard BBQ... and leaving it outside. Now it's pretty rusty (it's steel).
So, I'm trying to figure out if I want to:
1. Write it off, and continue using it as-is (still works just fine).
2. Take it apart, grind off all the rust, paint it, figure out how to replace / re-peen the pins, paint it...
3. Throw it in a coffee can half-full of sand, rig up a motor to tumble it 'til the rust is gone, paint it...
4. Or?
And, of course, keep it inside from now on...
So, what would you do?
<The promised 'More'> I did some research this PM, and it turns out that a kitchen stove company named Chambers had a 'Thermowell' that a variety of special pots could be lowered into, and evidently this potlifter came with those stoves. It was used to lift the Thermowell pots back up out of the stove top. Too bad I screwed it up. I do realize that whether I leave it alone or clean it up it will never be the antique it was.
A couple of years ago I picked up this really cool camping pot handle (or so I thought. More on that later, if you care to stay with me...)
When I got it, it looked just like this picture I snagged:
The problem is, even though I like to think I take good care of my stuff, I have been using it out at the backyard BBQ... and leaving it outside. Now it's pretty rusty (it's steel).
So, I'm trying to figure out if I want to:
1. Write it off, and continue using it as-is (still works just fine).
2. Take it apart, grind off all the rust, paint it, figure out how to replace / re-peen the pins, paint it...
3. Throw it in a coffee can half-full of sand, rig up a motor to tumble it 'til the rust is gone, paint it...
4. Or?
And, of course, keep it inside from now on...
So, what would you do?
<The promised 'More'> I did some research this PM, and it turns out that a kitchen stove company named Chambers had a 'Thermowell' that a variety of special pots could be lowered into, and evidently this potlifter came with those stoves. It was used to lift the Thermowell pots back up out of the stove top. Too bad I screwed it up. I do realize that whether I leave it alone or clean it up it will never be the antique it was.