Random Cool Tricks

Coleman 220E lantern with heat drum adaptation.
Unbreakable stainless steel mesh "mantles" keep the generator hot and produce plenty of heat to take the evening chill off in my mild coastal climate.

 

This was me from 14:30 to 17:00 , fishing for kids , and giving away treats . Ran out at 16:45 and I had a huge bag mixture , so over 250 kids in the Village I live.
Sloth
Edit add , looked at the bag amount was way more , never saw the same goblin twice !! WIN-WIN day

 

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The Home Depot theme played on items from the Home Depot.

 

Seasoning frying pans isn't rocket science, but some folks seem to struggle with it and think there's some magic snake oil that will fix all their seasoning woes. Add the modern finish on Lodge pans (the ONLY made in USA cast iron pans manufactured since 1999) and I was even fighting to season a new pan that wasn't a food magnet.

Tonight's experiment in the man-kitchen is a Wagner's 1891 Original 8" pan made between 1991 and 1999 at the Wagner foundry in Sidney, Ohio.



I got this pan for $5 at a thrift store. I probably paid too much, but it isn't warped, so it's a serviceable hunk of iron. I used it for a paperweight at work for about a decade, occasionally working on the rough surface with a sanding disc. I had some very aggressive whiz wheels at work today and took a good bit of the roughness off. I left some machine marks, but I thought I'd give the pan a shot.

My seasoning routine is always the same, whether on cast iron or carbon steel. Wash, dry, butter, burn. I opened the doors on both ends of the house and turned on the ceiling fans. It got a little smokey. Once I was happy with the color I let the pan cool just a little, added more butter and fried two eggs. Absolutely no stick anywhere all the way up to the rim. They came out a little brown from the burned butter, but they were delicious. I feel like I should clean up the casting flash on the handle and possibly work out a few more of my machine marks, but I probably won't bother. I like that this pan proves that some modern rough finish junk cast iron pans can be made to perform as well as 100 year old smooth finish pans from Wagner, Griswold and Lodge if they don't warp first.

Next test will be on a Coleman gas stove. The Wagner is smaller than my precious third generation Lodge or carbon steel Mineral B, so it'll fit on the Coleman 425E without hanging off the side.

 

Everhot timber brand blowtorch.

Now I start designing and building my own personal brand and go around burning into everything.

 

I used to see it happen the opposite way. Young Marine, first time running a buffer, tries to fight it and winds up wound up.

 

Hindi Automotive manual starter.

 

I got my Buffer License in my first USAF hitch. By my second Navy hitch I was a Master Buffer Tech. Later working at U-Haul one year, the young guys were banging up the inside of the store, claiming the buffer was impossible to use. I showed them how, with TWO FINGERS, I could make the buffer do whatever I wanted.

 

I first ran a buffer at 14-15 yrs old. Once you get the handles adjusted for your height and comfort , you can walk that thing anywhere you want to ,, like you said ,, with 2 fingers .

 

Now if we could do the same with the woman !!
Two fingers eh ?

 

Field expedient Coleman Northern Nova reflector so I'm not blinding everyone in the campground.

 

Say, I ran into a Coleman at an estate sale, no wicks? but ran on a small propane bottle.
Worth picking up?

 

HotDiggity is the expert ,, but ,,

I say ,, " it's better to have it and not need it , than it is to need it and not have it . "

A backup is always good to have . I picked one up at a thrift store somewhere. Brought it home and put it on a shelf,, checked it and had all the parts . I've been getting ready to test it out , and have it ready to go , just in case. 'Course with all this global warming going on ,, I'm not expecting any major snow accumilations ,, maybe a tornado, or a microburst more likely in my AO.

 

Mantle ?? wicks are for oil lamps .