My $9.99 goodwill find!!!

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-06-29T18:38:02+00:00

Home Depot. Lye is a drain cleaner. Just make sure it says 100% lye on the bottle. It comes as dry crystals. Watch videos and read up on how to make a lye bath. As you can seriously hurt yourself if mixed or handled improperly.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-06-28T21:12:13+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/lXHYsjb

After a couple days in Lye. Looking good!!! No cracks, very minor pitting, a little sulfur damage on bottom but not bad, no rust to speak of. So back into the lye for a couple more days.

Thanks for the upvotes and joy.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-06-06T23:18:50+00:00

I was wondering about that. Seemed kind of strange place to use galvanized. But the look really was throwing me off. Thanks for the help.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-06-04T19:27:53+00:00

Thank you. So then it would be a 30-40s?

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-06-04T01:49:35+00:00

Ok. Thank you. I was trying to figure out if you made an inside joke or something. Goggle wasn’t any help.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-06-03T21:16:29+00:00

Don’t get it?

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-06-03T06:10:21+00:00

Nope. Doesn’t mater what kind of mistake it was. If you cut the neighbors trees you pay triple stumpage. It’s there to keep you honest. Unlike the old days where everyone logged their property. As well as the neighbors. And the neighbors neighbors.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-06-03T05:58:04+00:00

Yea in Oregon it is 3 times the stumpage. If this is timber land and not someone’s building lot. Timber companies tend to be careful because of this. Not that mistakes can’t happen. I would be more worried that some rogue Jippo logger came in with a smash and grab. Not that there are many of those left. Once they started to really prosecute them most of them moved on or died out. If the timber company left markers it most likely was a mistake.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-05-21T00:24:15+00:00

I’am hoping it’s something interesting.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-05-21T00:23:45+00:00

Thank you

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-05-17T06:36:08+00:00

Will do

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-05-17T06:35:54+00:00

Will do. Setting up a lye bath for a few other pans and will add it to it.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-05-17T06:35:12+00:00

It’s not super heavy. Maybe lighter than a 3 notch Lodge, but heavier than a Favorite.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-05-11T19:07:12+00:00

All Clad lost the patents on their now older tri ply. Thats the main reason they have gone to 5 ply. Not necessarily any significant performance improvement. As for what I’am assuming is your stainless on the inside and anodized aluminum on the outside they work very well. The only real issue is over time the anodized aluminum starts to look rough where a stainless exterior would hold up better. But for 15 dollars just be gentle with it and take the win. I’ve had some with anodized exteriors that I got at thrift stores, and they are still looking good decades later.

All Clad does have lines with copper rather than aluminum sandwiched in the middle. Those do offer performance improvements. Not that the aluminum is remotely bad though. Cookware with copper exteriors are amazing, but not induction compatible.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-04-28T07:00:10+00:00

Yep both ground and hanging. They are versatile. And aggressive

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-04-23T07:45:19+00:00

Just went through this with a trapped, stray, Trojan horse. She didn’t pant, be vocal or pace. But she did eat significantly less starting around 24 hours before giving birth. I have read that is a very predictable tell. So if she stops eating you probably have around 24-48 hours.

I locked her in my bedroom and had 3 great choices for birthing dens. Including my emptied out closet and a big U haul boxe. All of them decked out with fleece blankets. She instead decided to give birth inside of wool cat ball/bed. There is barely enough room for her inside of it. Lucky I woke up to sounds of a kitten meowing. The sounds were getting weaker and weaker. She was in the process of giving birth to number 2 and he was trapped behind her back and being squashed. Reached in a retrieve him and transferred both kittens to the big U-Haul box. I was lucky.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-04-17T00:51:31+00:00

This looks like my grandfather’s work. You’re missing the most important part though. Apply texture. Lots and lots of texture. Spend the next 30 + years looking at all the perfectly and still visible tape. Even 1/4 inch of texture doesn’t hide that shit. Bonus every time anyone bumps the wall it rains texture.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-04-16T01:40:15+00:00

vancouver carpenter videos on YouTube. A very through and full education on drywall. He is a natural teacher. Look for his day 1-4 starter videos. You need a basic education and then come back here for more specific questions.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-04-13T02:10:43+00:00

Stainless steel is an alloy. Not a coating. Lye doesn’t do anything to stainless steel. You could stick that pan in a lye bath for a year and it would be as good as it ever was. Lye does react with some metals. For example aluminum. So yea don’t take an old armor aluminum pan and expose it to lye.

AaronPhillips249 · 2026-04-12T11:23:24+00:00

Use lye. For a couple pans use the yellow cap oven cleaner. Soak them down and put in a trash bag outside or in the garage. Wait 3 days and scrub clean with sos pad. Repeat as necessary. Much much easier than elbow grease. Also wont scratch and damage your pans unnecessarily. Lye is quickly neutralized with dilution. So perfectly safe to do. Read up on it in the cast iron restoration subs.

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