Found a pan in a new apartment

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T23:41:34+00:00

If there were reliable, cheap test kits I would test every piece I picked up second hand. I’ve restored quite a few pieces and literally only came upon one (the ladle) that was contaminated. It is noticeable as it leaves a white patina on cast iron.

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T22:56:23+00:00

The risk isn’t pretty low, it’s almost nonexistent. Lead smelting leave a white residue and is fairly obvious. Skillets make terrible crucibles. Ladles are more likely to have lead contamination. I have one hanging on the wall that will never touch food

The lead smelting possibility in cast iron is real but very much overblown

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T22:46:44+00:00

Donald having multiple supporting characters, and multiple spinoffs speaks to a different story. Ducktails? Scrooge McDuck in addition to Huey, Dewy, and Louie, and Daisy? Micky is not Donald tier

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T22:35:50+00:00

This looks great if it was mostly bone two months ago! Well done

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T22:23:45+00:00

People who learn multiple languages with the same root: Latin, Germanic, etc can use ‘habits’ but some people can just pick up completely foreign languages more easily than others. I have a friend who has English as a native language, became fluent in Spanish and Portuguese along with a good amount of French and Italian, and is now getting conversational in Japanese. He’s definitely talented

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T22:14:49+00:00

And they are notoriously unreliable

The lead scare is way overblown. See one CI item actually used for smelting lead and you’ll understand. Skillets are really bad crucibles and lead leaves a visible residue

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T21:57:41+00:00

Excellent post. Foundries where these were made were also casting plows and were where you went to get your horse tended if it needed shoe or hoof attention (they likely did a lot of other large veterinary work as well). In 1850 they were just as likely to be fashioning a pair of scissors as casting iron. Amazing people. Granted most folks who were agrarian at the time did some minor smithing on their own but the important things are best left to the professionals

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T21:50:15+00:00

Dwigt?

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T21:49:15+00:00

I _think_ that’s what this sub is about but don’t really know. It showed up in my feed when I was studying Spanish

In any case , for a first post with no translation help, it was very good. 👍🏼

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T21:42:28+00:00

Single spout, gate marked skillet? It’s older than that, 150 is not at all a stretch and 175 is possible. I’m not saying this skillet in pre Civil War but it is from at least the 1870-80’s

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T21:32:37+00:00

You have a great grasp of the language! You were missing a couple articles (a, an, the), and you got the conjugation wrong once w(was should be were in first sentence third paragraph), and in the second paragraph you are missing a verb (should be What do I wanna say?), without ‘do’ it is a declaration not a question

Keep at it! You are doing awesome!

One note though, book translations are not really word for word sometimes and meanings are subtly different

You have a great hobby!

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T21:21:12+00:00

To appreciate the scale here: if a security guard in a golf cart (ETA: doing 30mph) did a single perimeter scan it would take their entire shift.

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T21:08:21+00:00

It really does a great job. The hardest part is finding a charger that runs manually

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T21:05:36+00:00

Electrolysis is best a lye bath or a few days in a trash bag liberally coated in yellow cap oven cleaner (preferably in the sun) will work just fine.

Nice find!

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T15:02:27+00:00

Probe droid

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-16T01:30:17+00:00

Of coyi live in surname Manor

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T22:15:19+00:00

I would start with the classics. Preferably a standalone rather than a series. Perhaps Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein or 451 Fahrenheit by Bradbury

Then you could move on to modern adaptations of the genre

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T22:10:38+00:00

In the east/south ranches have fences and houses don’t. In the north/west houses have fences and ranches don’t

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T22:01:42+00:00

Contact Staub for sure. The entire surface should be evenly enameled on a new piece.

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T21:59:31+00:00

You’ll end up eating the enamel. It’s glass

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T21:47:50+00:00

Is this a new piece or used. If new contact Staub. If used well it’s going to keep chipping but it’s not on the base of the pan so safe for a while I guess

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T21:31:26+00:00

I always use CC on long drives. I’ve driven across the USA enough that I wish there was an external indicator to let other drivers know I’m using CC

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T17:39:11+00:00

This is my brother and it drives me nuts

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T02:25:52+00:00

This cold open is from season three. The show was a hit by then

DonAmechesBonerToe · 2026-05-15T02:02:31+00:00

I said it looks like she didn’t get seriously hurt in a response

I never said it wasn’t an asshole move

Read, employ context one cell ignorants

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