GKlose Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 Our troop has some old pieces of Trail Chef aluminum cook kits in storage and I've noticed that some appear to be heavily oxidized. Assuming these can be cleaned up, anyone have any recommendations on how to do so? I would think that anything deeply pitted would get tossed, and that we probably don't want to use any heavy abrasives on them. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papadaddy Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 This might be overkill, but if you know anyone who has access to a machine shop where they have what's commonly called a "bead box"...a cabinet where you stick your hands into some heavy leather gloves and sandblast small parts with glass beads which are inside the cabinet while you look through the window. He could polish them up for you real nice in about 5 minutes. I often wished I'd had one of those in my garage when we came back from a campout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basementdweller Posted May 1, 2012 Share Posted May 1, 2012 soft scrub and some elbow grease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadenP Posted May 2, 2012 Share Posted May 2, 2012 GK Try a product called Bartenders Friend, it is a scrubbing powder that chefs use to clean metal pans, etc. I can tell you from personal experience it works great I use on all my metal products and it hasn't failed yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKlose Posted May 3, 2012 Author Share Posted May 3, 2012 Thanks, guys -- I appreciate your responses. I'd been thinking Barkeeper's Friend too, or even Softscrub. What I hadn't thought about is the bead box. We've got an ASM in the troop who is a pro metalworker. Didn't even occur to me to ask him :-). He's awesome -- made us a really nice dutch oven table and also made some dutch oven lid lifters. He even set aside some scrap at work, and was almost finished with a rack for propane bottles, but he said someone else at work swiped it. Thanks again -- Guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stu_bes Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Wanted: Large frying pan, which also serves as a cover for the large pot on the trail chef mess kit used for Patrol cooking in many Boy Scout Troops. Do not need the handle. There is a long story about how something of this size could get lost, and how many people looked for it. Troop 93, Windsor, Massachusetts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John-in-KC Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Moderator Note Welcome @stu_bes. Please be sure to read our guidelines. I merged your topic into an existing topic on the matter. bluntly, your best bet is eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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