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Willie

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My local thrift is a cast iron honey hole. I have found some gems there, but here's a Griswold good health skillet, that I paid like 3 dollars for. I usually hit them with oven cleaner and then reseason, for use in my kitchen. This one is worth some money, but I put it into rotation. If you see one of these, grab it!
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I love cast iron!!
That's a decent pan. You should think about a little dip tank...5gal bucket and some lye..........soak the piece and when it comes out you will be amazed.......it's like baby-butt factory fresh new.......then re-season the pot will go another 100 years. That's about how old that one is. I did the Easy-off thing for a while and always got mixed results. After setting up a bath and seeing the results I would never use the easy off method again. Big pans need a 18 gallon tote.............the mix lasts a long time if you put a lid on it. It's also effortless, once you set it up.......you can leave the iron in as long as you want. Most pans end up being PERFECT under all that grime. I've been collecting cast iron a long time, sold a bunch, still have a bunch but always have my eye out in in the vicinity of that type of stuff.
 

Skunky Dunk Farms

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That's a decent pan. You should think about a little dip tank...5gal bucket and some lye..........soak the piece and when it comes out you will be amazed.......it's like baby-butt factory fresh new.......then re-season the pot will go another 100 years. That's about how old that one is. I did the Easy-off thing for a while and always got mixed results. After setting up a bath and seeing the results I would never use the easy off method again. Big pans need a 18 gallon tote.............the mix lasts a long time if you put a lid on it. It's also effortless, once you set it up.......you can leave the iron in as long as you want. Most pans end up being PERFECT under all that grime. I've been collecting cast iron a long time, sold a bunch, still have a bunch but always have my eye out in in the vicinity of that type of stuff.
Sodium hydroxide for the win!
 

Mim Towls

Basement Blendz
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That's a decent pan. You should think about a little dip tank...5gal bucket and some lye..........soak the piece and when it comes out you will be amazed.......it's like baby-butt factory fresh new.......then re-season the pot will go another 100 years. That's about how old that one is. I did the Easy-off thing for a while and always got mixed results. After setting up a bath and seeing the results I would never use the easy off method again. Big pans need a 18 gallon tote.............the mix lasts a long time if you put a lid on it. It's also effortless, once you set it up.......you can leave the iron in as long as you want. Most pans end up being PERFECT under all that grime. I've been collecting cast iron a long time, sold a bunch, still have a bunch but always have my eye out in in the vicinity of that type of stuff.
Heck yeah that's a great idea. Easy off is a mess and I hate spraying it off into the driveway or whatever. I didn't think about having a tote with a lid, for multiple washes. Now I can have another weird bin out back!! I knew this thread would be fun. I have a stack of pans to clean soon, so I'll def. go that route.
 

Willie

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Sodium hydroxide for the win!
Yup.1lb to 5 gallons water is the ratio

Heck yeah that's a great idea. Easy off is a mess and I hate spraying it off into the driveway or whatever. I didn't think about having a tote with a lid, for multiple washes. Now I can have another weird bin out back!! I knew this thread would be fun. I have a stack of pans to clean soon, so I'll def. go that route.
You'll never go back once you try it. Lowes keeps it under lock and key.....you have to ask for it.......think it has something to do with meth. But they get it for you if you ask and aren't all jittery and shit. :)
 

Mim Towls

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Yup.1lb to 5 gallons water is the ratio


You'll never go back once you try it. Lowes keeps it under lock and key.....you have to ask for it.......think it has something to do with meth. But they get it for you if you ask and aren't all jittery and shit. :)
I've always been intrigued by Lye. Never thought to grab a vat of it. Heck yeah.
 

Gentlemancorpse

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My local thrift is a cast iron honey hole. I have found some gems there, but here's a Griswold good health skillet, that I paid like 3 dollars for. I usually hit them with oven cleaner and then reseason, for use in my kitchen. This one is worth some money, but I put it into rotation. If you see one of these, grab it!
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I love cast iron!!
Im super jealous of this. I can never find any cast iron at our local thrifts period, never mind the good stuff.

This is my favorite knife, it was an eBay score. Its a 1970 Dexter Russell Chinese Clever, actually made here in MA. Paid $2 for it because it was a rusty mess. Needs another polishing at the moment, im hard on stuff lol 20230121_174120.jpg
 

pwnytailjoe

Come As You Are
Old typewriters was my thing. Bought the last one in 2002, have been in a thrift/vintage store only a handful of times since. By the end of the 90's most stores had been picked clean of any gems. I used to restore vintage Coke and pinball machines with a former coworker.

The Spartan radio was flood damaged. I restored the shell and tucked an MP3 player inside. There's a Bluetooth speaker in there now.

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Picked that^^^ up for $3.
 

spyralout

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@Mim Towls fkn another awesome thread. You da man fuck ya. You makin me wanna go to a thrift store to find some gems. I’m a mechanical clicky keyboard guy. I found one w awesome buckling springs about 20 years ago. Ex wife took it. She knew it was the real deal shit. Why do all my exes rob me lol? Fuck em I’m charging forward ?

In an earlier life, I lived in Chicago, got married, some kids, I was welding on locomotives back then in LaGrange Ill.
Wifey, found some work with a curtain maker/reupholster company.
Once kids got to school age, we decided to move back to PA, back to the country, back into these hills.
Wife learns that one of her besties, dad, was a maintenance man for a sewing company.
He had maybe 10 various machines in his basement he refurbished, when the company bought new machines, he would buy them for scrap prices, the fix, and sell them.
I did not KNOW a thing about sergers, and walking feet, other stuff, but she did.
His basement was a horder's dream, 30-50 feet of floor to ceiling STUFF, piled to the ceiling. Way in the back, the machines sat.
2 days later, we get to them. Plug them in, and they work and run, perfectly.
They haggle over the price, and we are the owner of 4 industrial grade sewing machines.
Few weeks later, she/we are in the Curtain & Reupholster business.
Of course my part was/picking up furniture/disassembly of furniture, refinishing the wood, hanging curtains, and fixing the machines after Mr. K passed away.
My kids sold the business, and house after she passed away 10 years ago.
Fkn badass story mang. My mom sews and has a manual step Singer like from 117 years ago n shit. She uses it more than the electrical ones. She said it just works right. Gotta love it man
 

OldG

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@Mim Towls fkn another awesome thread. You da man fuck ya. You makin me wanna go to a thrift store to find some gems. I’m a mechanical clicky keyboard guy. I found one w awesome buckling springs about 20 years ago. Ex wife took it. She knew it was the real deal shit. Why do all my exes rob me lol? Fuck em I’m charging forward ?


Fkn badass story mang. My mom sews and has a manual step Singer like from 117 years ago n shit. She uses it more than the electrical ones. She said it just works right. Gotta love it man
Duckys are not at thrift stores..come on man. If you are going to do it....
They weigh about 10 times what a cheapo weighs...what a keyboard. My son games. I use an abacus.
 

spyralout

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Sodium or Potassium Hydroxide?

Or are they both lye?

I use Potassium Hydroxide to make Jadam Wetting Agent....

If you think 29% peroxide can give you a burn...Wow that stuff is HOT
Sodium Hydroxide be better. And ya it’s hot AF got damn don’t go pee holding your weenie after you handle that shit lol ? ask me how I know lmao ?
 

spyralout

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Duckys are not at thrift stores..come on man. If you are going to do it....
They weigh about 10 times what a cheapo weighs...what a keyboard. My son games. I use an abacus.
Fkn a man I just got a Logitech clicky cuz I had a 30% coupon. It’s not the same as an oldskool clicky.

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It’s got Bluetooth wifi n shit but it’s just not the same as an oldskool clicky
 

OldG

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My 16 year old games...at a very high level. I think of all the old gen xrs telling him to fuck right off...I got out of gaming because of it.
:D
Turn based RPGs and Bingo are more my speed.
These keyboards ARE THE SHIT. Period. You can beat someone because of the difference.
 
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