Wire brush in the WRONG hands!

Buerste · 2008-11-19T03:43:14+00:00

I was showing my young nephew how to clean-up some small parts with a crimped wire cup brush in my drill press. He was just infatuated with the way rust and crud were replaced with bright shiny metal. I've seen that look before! After I was confident he wouldn't lose his eyes or fingerprints I let him discover. A few hours later he presented, with great pride...my grandmother's cast iron frying pan! It looked newer than the day it was cast!

Nov 19, 2008 44 Replies

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Larry Jaques 17 years ago

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:30:00 -0500, the infamous Joseph Gwinn scrawled the following:

My experience with it differs from yours. Maybe my ions in LoCal were different from the norm, but I got the spare pans hotter than hell (I know how to properly cure a pan) and they still stunk after a month or two when I opened the cupboard door. I ended up triple boiling them to get the oils out and then redoing them with canola.

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Joseph Gwinn 17 years ago

Never had the problem. Maybe frequent use is the key. Whatever the oil one uses, if it doesn't polymerize it will become rancid. It may take more than one trip through a hot oven to finish the job.

I'd prefer to not know. Hmm. There is an alternative - chain the nephew to one of those first industrial revolution machines in the dantean brush factory.

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