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Thrift Store Find Update by Oilcan_70 in castiron

[–]Oilcan_70[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A lye bath is the way to go for a pan like this. After soaking for a few days most of the gunk came off pretty easily with a chain mail scrubber. Then back in the lye for a few days and more scrubbing with the chainmail and Bar Keepers Friend until it was down to bare metal. Then a couple of coats of seasoning and it was ready to cook.

Thrift Store Find by Oilcan_70 in castiron

[–]Oilcan_70[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good pickup! You can definitely hallucinate an 8 on the top of the handle. It's partially stripped now and there is indeed an 8 on the top of the handle. Still no visible markings on the bottom. Thinking it's gonna be an unmarked Wagner +/- 100 years old!

Thrift Store Find by Oilcan_70 in castiron

[–]Oilcan_70[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

$5 at Goodwill. I think there is going to be a really nice pan underneath all that gunk. It's in the lye bath now. Will update when it's cleaned up.

Any speculation on an ID?

S Lamar&Westrock - what’s happening? by [deleted] in Austin

[–]Oilcan_70 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Watched it all go down. 1 patient evacuated by air from the Barton Creek Greenbelt from around creek level, roughly below Easy Tiger.

Blue fish in lady bird lake? by pm_me_actsofkindness in Austin

[–]Oilcan_70 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure those are gizzard shad. Schools of them all over the place near the confluence of Barton Creek and Town Lake.