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Mark W

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Talking with a guy at work about cast iron cookware and he said he too uses it. He said there was a pan in his basement that was there when he bought his house. He said i could have it...nice! here are some before pics as i just got the pan today. maybe someone can tell who made it by the handle design. There is a number 7 on the top and a sculpted handle on the bottom. Lots of baked on crud to remove.
 

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Should be a SBL Griswold under that crud. The "late large TM" only appeared on a #3 late grooved handle.
 
Should look like my #5 here. I've narrowed it down to 1940 - 1957 by the logo, not sure about when they made this style handle yet though.

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The Small Block Logo early handle skillets where made from 1939 through 1944 . The Grooved handle and Late handle were made between 1945 and 1957 .
 
Here is the first stage of the clean up of the pan. Awesome that it IS a Griswold pan. My cleaning method is a oven self cleaning at an hour which gets all the baked crud off. Then I do a vinigar bath for 24 hours, then a good scrubbing with steel wool. A wash and a dry with the seasoning method here at cast iron collector. Currently now in the bath, I wanted to post a couple pics. There are some deep gouges in the pan. I use my pans as actual cookware so I don't think it's an issue. Plus this was free so no out of pocket expense if I have to get rid of it.
 

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You wouldn't want to forget and leave a pan soaking in straight vinegar. 50/50 lessens the chance that you'll ruin a pan, and it does work.
 
My hubby is an impatient guy! When we had several pieces of CI to clean rust from, he went with the straight vinegar soak. Good quality iron such as Griswold and older Wagner CI survived nicely, but I forgot and left 2 little pans (advert. pieces) in the vinegar bath, and they definitely started to melt. Glad my learning experience was with something not very valuable or desirable. Now any rust removal would be 50/50 vinegar and water.
 
hmmm....I think I did leave this pan a bit too long in the straight vinegar bath. the bottom of the pan looks to be pitted now and it's like a layer of the iron looks like it's missing well I certainly won't be doing that again.
 
Mark W said:
hmmm....I think I did leave this pan a bit too long in the straight vinegar bath. the bottom of the pan looks to be pitted now and it's like a layer of the iron looks like it's missing well I certainly won't be doing that again.
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there are some ugly gouges not from me but from the previous owner I guess. must have stirred their food with an axe or something...lol. Bottom of the pan is delaminated...:(
 

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Mike, there are some good suggestions about vinegar use under "Cast Iron Restoration" on the home page. (Distractable me always sets a timer!). :-)
 
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