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Handle: a Wired Tinplate Lifting Handle, Riveted and Soldered On (Hasluck, 1907)
A tinsmith's lifting handle is a strip of tinplate cut to a tapering pattern, stiffened with wire along its edges and bent so its narrow end curls into a ring, then riveted and soldered to the vessel.
Paul N. Hasluck's Tinplate Work (1907) gives it for the strainer of a fish kettle (Figs. 185-186). He gives no sizes for the pattern or the wire; those are unknown here.
Source: P. N. Hasluck, Tinplate Work (1907), pp. 89-90. Picture: his Figs. 185 and 186.
Beginner
An hour for a pair
Instructions
1
1
Read Hasluck
Read Hasluck
"Having cut two to this pattern, wire the edges, and bend to the shape of Fig. 186, letting the narrow part of the pattern form the ring; then rivet and solder them to the strainer."
2
2
Cut to the pattern
Cut to the pattern
Mark out the handle on tinplate to the pattern of Fig. 185, a long strip tapering to a narrow end, and cut it out with snips; cut two for a pair. Hasluck gives no sizes (unknown).
Materials for this step:
Tinplate Sheet1 two stripsTools needed:
Scriber
Snips
Unknown Dimensions3
3
Wire the edges
Wire the edges
Wire the edges of each strip: The gauge for the handles is not given; the strainer they are made for is wired with No. 10 B.W.G. tinned wire.
Materials for this step:
Iron Wire1 edgesTools needed:
Wooden Mallet
Stake4
4
Bend the ring
Bend the ring
Bend the strip to the shape of Fig. 186, curling the narrow end of the pattern round into the ring you lift by.
Tools needed:
Wooden MalletStake5
5
Rivet and solder on
Rivet and solder on
Punch the rivet holes, rivet the flat end of the handle to the vessel, and solder it.
Materials for this step:
Iron Rivets1 per handle
Tin-Lead Solder1 small amountTools needed:
Sheet Metal Hole Punch
Riveting Hammer
Electric Soldering Iron
Flux6
6
History and honest limits
History and honest limits
In Hasluck this handle lifts the perforated strainer out of a fish kettle; his colander has a pair of bow handles riveted on opposite each other.
He gives the pattern by figure only, with no sizes, and does not say which wire goes in the handle edges; the tools are ours.
Materials
4- 1 two stripsPlaceholder
- 1 edgesPlaceholder
- 1 per handlePlaceholder
- 1 small amountPlaceholder
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