I'll be dipped

[TheLastColdBeer]

Thought I was buying a potbelly stove. It was in pieces, but too small. Took it home anyway.  Base was broken & a friend recommended welding it with 7018. "You can't weld cast w/that!" Try it. I'm sold, 7018 lo-hi can weld cast iron.

[LilMord]

you're doing great

 

[WeednFeed]

What’s not to like? Two beautiful cast iron frying pans, great stove and everyone’s favourite BACON!

[major-mark63]

Nothing like frying bacon in the outside,l less messy than kitchen stove wifer like it .....

[rexbowan]

Nice! At least it wasn't a pig! lol

 

[TheLastColdBeer]

9" Lodge grill pan @ DG. $15 dollars...sold!

[KaptCrunch]

On 5/4/2024 at 10:47 PM, TheLastColdBeer said:

Thought I was buying a potbelly stove. It was in pieces, but too small. Took it home anyway.  Base was broken & a friend recommended welding it with 7018. "You can't weld cast w/that!" Try it. I'm sold, 7018 lo-hi can weld cast iron.

Yes you can 7018 (dry rods from the toaster oven) just need to pre-heat the whole leg and clean the weld area  and weld it on a Pizza Stone for Oven to keep the heat in the cast iron to prevent cracking when cools, other weld rods is Ferro-Nickel.

great to see preserving history LCB  and the taste is real not microwaved an get real meat texture. 

yumm smoked meat: put a  hickory slab under frying pan while cooking on stove top, use a hood that will fit over pan and has damper vents on it, to adjust flavour strength.

Edited May 8, 2024 by KaptCrunch

[TheLastColdBeer]

I was lazy, & didn't think it would work. Just hit the switch on my old Idealarc, grabbed a stick of 1/8" out of a sleave, & tacked one end. Hey, it acted like it wanted to weld. Tacked the other end, then short stitched back & forth to even the heat. Knocked the slag off w/an old chipping hammer. It rang like a new piece of iron.

[BigPapaDean]

Fur a sec there I thought you said you was CLipped