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Feb 1, 2014 at 10:07 pm #1312759
I wanted a knob for a MYOG pot lid and cooked up this one gram goodie from odds and ends.
I cut the end off a can using a safety style can opener, eyeballed the center and drilled a hole suitable for a pop rivet. Pop rivets have a center that looks like I nail and I pulled that center piece out, leaving a plain aluminum rivet. I cut that to length by simply nipping the end off with a pair of lineman's pliers. I slipped the rivet through the hole in the lid and secured it by sliding a section of silicone air line tubing on other side. You can make the knob any length you want. Leaving it a bit longer lets it fold over and plenty to grip. Weight is one gram :)
The lid with center hole and the evolution of the rivet: pop rivet with center, full length rivet, rivet trimmed to length and air line tubing.
Rivet in place from the bottom:
Finished knob from the chef's side :)
Feb 1, 2014 at 10:33 pm #2068853I used about 3/4" of silicon string instead of all of these rivets and things. I couldn't even get a weight on it, so it was milligrams.
–B.G.–
Feb 1, 2014 at 10:37 pm #2068854I like the control given with a real knob. You can tip it and even shake it to get the condensed water off, etc. It's just one rivet and a bit of hose.
Feb 2, 2014 at 3:20 am #2068873You can make a decent knob from a screw and a bent piece of wire, and even better if you can scavenge the knob from a broken canister stove.
Feb 2, 2014 at 5:10 am #2068875…
Feb 2, 2014 at 8:22 am #2068908I like it Dale.
No chance of burning fingers on that knob.
Feb 2, 2014 at 8:33 am #2068912Dale,
Where do you buy the silicone tubing?
Feb 2, 2014 at 8:47 am #2068920It's aquarium air line. It burns easily and not so good for pot handles. On the lid, I think any plastic tubing would do. Automobile vacuum hose, clear vinyl, etc.
Feb 2, 2014 at 2:22 pm #2069027Very nice Dale. Next time use an appropriate length rivet, insert into hand held tool, place rivet through hole, place length of tight fitting tubing over end of rivet and then squeeze to "pop" rivet into tubing making it expand to almost guarantee the tubing will stay put.
Feb 2, 2014 at 3:24 pm #2069048I was working with what was in the parts drawer. I started by trying to seat the rivet, but of course it was too long. That also requires a tool, which some may not have The tubing grips very well as it is. A sheet metal screw would accomplish the same thing and probably grip the tubing better yet. You are only lifting a can lid!
Feb 2, 2014 at 6:51 pm #2069126I believe Home Depot sells aluminum screws in their specialty screw section. Could be another good lightweight option as a lid handle.
Feb 4, 2014 at 8:49 am #2069714I used the top half of a step-down golf tee, screwed through the bottom of the lid with a tiny brass screw. May weigh more than a gram but it's solid.
Feb 4, 2014 at 9:26 am #2069728Clever! I was thinking that miniature chess peices would be cool.
Feb 5, 2014 at 10:59 pm #2070463I just used a piece of foil tape. gotta be around 1g. it flattens nicely too for storage
Feb 6, 2014 at 12:28 am #2070475…
Feb 6, 2014 at 4:51 pm #2070686I just used a piece of foil tape.
+1gotta be around 1g.
Not that much. I just weighed 60 sq inches off my roll … 5 grams. Hard to know exact dimensions from Jason's photo but I'm guessimating 4 sq inches at most. That'd be 1/3 gram (333 milligrams) … we're blowing past gram weenie status and are solidly into milligram weenie territory here.it flattens nicely too for storage
+1 that alsoIt also makes a functional side handle on a Heineken or Fosters can if you have also added a bale to the can (made from a bike spoke).
Also, since we're being milligram weenies, use a paper hole puncher to lighten it even more.
Feb 6, 2014 at 4:54 pm #2070687Does the foil tape survive boiling water under lid, multiple days?
That's pretty good – milligram wienie
Feb 6, 2014 at 5:04 pm #2070694Does the foil tape survive boiling water under lid, multiple days?
Yes, assuming you don't intend to mean 30 days of continuous boiling;-) One I placed on a Fosters can (lid and side) for a friend is still attached and intact after about 30 days use, two boils per day.
Feb 6, 2014 at 5:05 pm #2070695> we're blowing past gram weenie status and are solidly into milligram weenie territory here.
Too funny Jim!! LOL. Yes, by all means we need to perforate the tape to lighten it further.
Feb 6, 2014 at 5:51 pm #2070701"That's pretty good – milligram wienie"
That would be a milliweanie, not to be confused with the number of participants in a large UL GGG :)
Feb 6, 2014 at 6:05 pm #2070704all in good sport, but i see the tape on the lid, and in the same view i see the ridiculous handles.
omfg you gott's be kidding me.you got to have a spoon anyway . right ?
so gentlemen, just do it like this, and never look back.i must have tossed this idea out there half a dozen times. it's getting sort of recreational by now.
luv ya !
v.Feb 6, 2014 at 7:37 pm #2070728Hey Peter Vaco, I'll take 10 dozen of those receiver brackets. Make them out of .005 titanium.
Mar 15, 2015 at 7:52 pm #2183006For those of you with experience using a the aluminum foil tape "knobs," does the foil get really hot?
Also, has anyone attached a modified wine cork to a lid to function as a knob? Cork is a great insulator and doesn't burn as easily as wood… Just a thought, but I'm not sure if anyone has done it.
I've got a 2qt non-stick open country pot that I want to put a knob handle on. I've screwed a finished wooden knob on my non-stick version of the pot, but would like to try and make a knob where I don't have to put a hole in the lid to attach it. Any ideas? Would JB Weld work as an adhesive?
Mar 15, 2015 at 9:13 pm #2183031Whenever I have a cook pot with a big knob, I take off the knob. That typically leaves a screw head on the inside that extends to the outside to hit nothing. So, I take a big glob of JB Weld and form it over the tip of the screw. That makes a substitute knob that doesn't transfer much heat, but it is awfully strong.
–B.G.–
Mar 15, 2015 at 11:59 pm #2183049nice pot/bowl stuart, what pot and lid is that? ml volume?
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