Move over Finex, look at the new Kickstarter

LOL only the top is stuck how else could you make it swing back and forth lol.....
 
You can take your CI to any machine shop and probably $20 and 15 minutes you can have a mirror finish put in them.
 
Bring it home, season it. Done.
 
Come to think of it, I have a diamond polisher with grits that go from 60 to 8000. I bet that puppy would do the trick.
 
And now that I am pondering this, I bet any orbital sander with basic sandpaper would do the trick too.

Now I want to try it.
 
Anyone got a pan I can sand? :D
 
looks like a cool pan and they definitely hit the funding goal.  I can't justify buying another CI pan, though.  GM, hope you post up when you get it. 
 
I tried to restore a Lodge CI pizza pan w/ a Makita and 'our' pads (diamond impregnated plasticized rubber) and the metal heated up and jumped across and glazed over the diamonds and the pad was shot before it started on the pan ...

I'm sure there are other, better, pads for the Makita though ...

That story ended up w/ the CI in the garbage bag along with two cans of Eazy Off, at the curb ...

I've just taken care of all of the CI, ever since ...

That oven-cleaner is nasty stuff ...
salsalady said:
looks like a cool pan and they definitely hit the funding goal.  I can't justify buying another CI pan, though.  GM, hope you post up when you get it. 
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Sure ... when it comes, then six months to a year later when I use it as per the usual!

The weight reduction was the sales speak that appealed to me, more than the smoothness, having just picked up the Baking Steel mini-griddle ...
 
grantmichaels said:
I tried to restore a Lodge CI pizza pan w/ a Makita and 'our' pads (diamond impregnated plasticized rubber) and the metal heated up and jumped across and glazed over the diamonds and the pad was shot before it started on the pan ...

I'm sure there are other, better, pads for the Makita though ...

That story ended up w/ the CI in the garbage bag along with two cans of Eazy Off, at the curb ...
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Yeah, about that. I would burn all of that shit off first, any seasoning or grease needs to be removed before attempting to grind, sand or polish. Put in the oven at 550º for however long it takes to burn that sheeit off.
 
Hmmm. I would try that P.O.S. Ryobi before a piece of sandpaper under a plastic jar of nails. :rofl: WTF was that? :rofl:
 
I would first start with 80 grit Silocon Carbide Sandpaper, the switch to 180, then 220, then 400, then 800 and see where we're at. 400 might be good enough but 800 would make an almost mirror finish, literally.
 
I have that big 'ol honken "Hearse" that is all rough on the bottom. I should try it with my wet polisher after sanding it to 400.
 
HA! I didn't get to that part. :rofl: I saw that jar of nails and heard his voice, and promptly skipped to the end result. The pan didn't look a whole lot different at the end of the video. :rofl:
 
he may have gotten rid of the bumps, but that sandpaper didn't do anything for the pits.  Sometimes you just have to call it and get a different pan.  Maybe not NEW, but different.  I could see the sanding technique working on some of the new stuff which is all bumpy, but it doesn't take care of pits.

wonder if a grinder would fit inside the dutch oven.... :think: ....or the wok....
 
salsalady said:
he may have gotten rid of the bumps, but that sandpaper didn't do anything for the pits.  Sometimes you just have to call it and get a different pan.  Maybe not NEW, but different.  I could see the sanding technique working on some of the new stuff which is all bumpy, but it doesn't take care of pits.

wonder if a grinder would fit inside the dutch oven.... :think: ....or the wok....
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It will take care of the pits if you just keep at it for another moon. :rofl:
 
A dutch oven would need a sanding disk on a drill.
 
A Cast Iron Wok? You have one of those? I thought woks were purposely thin to heat and cool quickly. ?
 
To sand the wok I would use one of these: they fit on any drill.
 
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