[s-cars] heat resistant plastic casting - definitely NAC

[Kent McLean]

Robert Myers wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a product from which a replacement 
> handle might be home fabricated by an aged dolt with ten thumbs?  It 
> needs to be sufficiently heat resistant to permit its use in a kitchen oven.

Another out-of-the-box thought...

Use Playdough to make a mold of the good handle. Then pour a thin mixture
of cement into the mold.

Depending on how the handle bolts to the pan, use a threaded rod bent
into a u-shape to add strength to the handle, and to give you something
to bolt to the pan.

If the pan screws into the mold, bury a nut into the form. Keep a bolt
on it to keep cement out of the threads (unscrew the bolt when the
cement firms up) and to help align the nut to the pan bolts.

If you can, make the mold in 2 halves, and duct tape them together
(along the seam and around the handle to keep it together). There
should be less need to sand/file away the extra. If you have to make
a mold open at the top, you'll just have more to file/sand.

Give it a few days/weeks to harden, then paint it black with wood
stove/bbq enamel.

Or say F it and hang it on the wall as decoration. Or fill it
with water and float flowers in it for a center piece. Or throw
it out and when she asks about it, tell her you've never had a
pan like that and she's crazy and should see a doctor. OK, maybe
not that last one.

-- 
Kent McLean
1990 V8 w/5-speed and other mods
1991 200 TQA #3, with mods
1999 A4 Avant, V6 Tiptronic
gone: '91 200 TQA x2, '94 100 S Avant, '89 200 TQ "Bad Puppy"