Was going to be my comment as well. It wouldn't replace the handle probably, but with more material around the top bolt, certainly would take the strain off the matierial at the lower part of the spoon.
Wondering if an old-fashioned metal shoehorn would possibly work as a heat shield? The picture of the heat shield you showed reminded me of the shape of a bent shoehorn. Thank you for presenting such wonderful ideas, information and history. God bless you!
Very clever. My wife and I switched to an electric percolator over 5 years ago as it provides better flavor compared to drip coffee and with percolator filters it is even better. I plan will use a camp percolator when away from electric power.
it'd work just fine if you can find an old metal one just more bending involved!! all the horns i've seen in the past 20 or so years have been plastic though!!
One day I couldn't find the refillable K-cups for my electric coffee maker. So I pulled the old percolator pot out of the back of the cabinet, cleaned it up and have been using it ever since. Makes a far better cup of coffee than the k-cups.
I used to have one of those percolators. Couldn’t find it and got a modern one with a wood handle. You could also forego all that work and wrap some aluminum foil on the bottom of the handle. Don’t know how many hobos would have access to a drill, file or hacksaw. But it was a great video! Love your channel.❤
I have a coffee pot just like that , picked it out of the trash a few years ago , thinks for this great video , great idea , have a great blessed day AMEN .
Love it! Everybody under 20 something years old is trying to figure out why you are using that old hand cranked drill. When all traditional power sources are out of reach, these old drills still do the job just fine. A small center punch (or a nail) would help keep the drill bit from drifting off its mark when they start drilling, too.
Same thought I had, as well as taking a ball pein and flattening that narrow part of the handle a wee bit to give it a bit more meat around the hole being drilled, if the metal would take it. I’m going to try it.
My father's father left the family so my Dad had to earn money to help the family as a young teenager. He was hired to go door to door to try to sell these coffee pots.
They are actually good pots. My mom gave me one that someone gave her and it got lost so I had to go online to find another One because they do not sell them in stores. You can also make teas and stuff in them as well as coffee.
❤ I have 3 of these coffee pots. 2 still have the insides but one dosen't. I use that one for boiling water. I am sorry to hear the hardships your Dad went through as a young man. I can never understand how Dads or Moms can abandoned their families. He is to be commended for helping Mom and stepping up when the times were tough. Tells a lot about the type of man your Father is.
I have the same Comet pot. Just repaired the handle as it was totally bury away. Mine is a 2 cup pot so it looks even smaller. Awesome to see another and someone keeping it going. Thanks for the video
James... Thank you for all these tips, tricks, and videos. I truly enjoyed your 1790's series and am currently enjoying the Hobo. I'm praying God's blessing upon you and yours! ...I'm now hankerin' for a cup of coffee!
Ingenious hack and I love your channel! Someone may already have suggested this, but knocking a small indent into the spoon handle with a hammer and punch would make drilling a lot easier
Very creative, James! I always look forward to your presentations. Before I realized your ingenuity in making a heat shield from an old spoon, another possibility entered my mind. In my accumulation of various pieces of hardward, I have a variety of metal drawer handles. One whose dimensions match the holes in the Hobo Coffee pot might also be iused as a replacenmment handle if the original handle melts or is no longer functional. Hope that your Chriatmas was blessed & that its blessings will carry throughtout the coming year! May God bless you & yours!
Mr George Cobb, You're right..., once't again, Mr Cobb, using a metal hardware handle works well, yet... Don' fergit them leather glovies or a heavy piece o' cotton cloth...; that bakelite were designed so's not to git too hot, percolatin' o'er the campfire. 🙂 Rick Bonner Pennsyltuck
Great idea, I make coffee in my backyard in the summer here in Canada, I actually did melt the handle off my pot. Thanks for the great idea. Happy New Year! Thanks for all the great videos and hard work you put into them.👍🇨🇦🇺🇸🎉🍻🍾
Setcthe spoon in the campfire to soften. THEN bend the spoon. To cut the spoon shaft, set in campfire. Remove and use hand axe blade, hit with a rock log piece, axe blade will cut through. I would find a spoon with a wider shaft. Drill the hole large enough to fit over the threaded insert. In any case, a good fix.
By the way, what I regard as another myth. The coffee is not boiled. The perking happens at a lower temperature and the coffee is not burned, yet a lot of people avoid this great way to make coffee. Control flavor by how how much coffee is used and by how long the coffee is brewed. Over or under brewing can be a problem with any method. Thank You for the hack. Also, the side of an aluminum can might work in a pinch?
I have My Grandfathers drill almost Identical to Yours. A good way to start is tap with a needle drill or pin drill first. Absolute Game Changer when using those types of drills
Brother! As The LORD does know, I have wasted one or so of these exact old pots exactly because I was not so smart! Love it! [PS, I have so far finished the 1700s vids, and hope to finish the other series. Carry on!]
I have my great grandma's percolator, a cast aluminum "Wagner Ware." She cooked over a wooden cook stove, but she was obviously careful as the handle is intact. 😊
That’s cool you see old stuff with weird things added to them and you you wonder who did that and it’s good to see stuff like this makeshift improvements very good stuff thanks ❤
I’d just use a little piece of tin or something, and make the hole big enough to go over that "nipple" that sticks out of the pot. Then you don’t have to cut the handle. Still a great idea though. Happy new year, and best wishes for what’s to come for you and your family.
frankly James i'd let it hang down more so i had a wider drill point! we used to take those old pots toss the insides add a bail to them and use them as bush pots for cooking, the spout came in handy when making a pasta dish for draining the water off!! now a days we get those grease pots from Wally world to make our bush pot from!!
I brewed perk pot coffee over an open fire for a year strait. This would have come in handy. I just used a flat rock set on the grate below the handle. It worked, but this is better.
James, I would carry a 12”x12” sheet of aluminum like an old aluminum sign , or maybe a cookie sheet then just sit the coffee pot on the metal sheet I did this for my large mocha pot. It amazing how many friend a man with coffee has in cold weather.
If you take a hammer and flatten the area where screw hole is to be drilled, so that it is wider (and thinner), then there will be at least 2x more metal around the hole, making it stronger.
I have that same coffee pot. I think i even remember seeing that accessory in a box somewhere near were the coffee pot is keep. Have to look one of these days.
I carry 2 percolator coffee pots in my kit bag. They don’t weigh much and can be filled with other gear so they don’t take up much space. Mine have a protected handle and a BAIL! One is for boiling water for sterilization or for melting snow. The other is for soup or the like. They are about $25 from Walmart. We actually have a bunch of them at home too.
Another heat shield material would be the top from a tin can: poke a hole with a nail close to the edge; bend up a lip; dull the edges to reduce risk of getting cut. Save the spoon to eat with or for trading to the junk peddler.
Just a suggestion for the oil part,use a vegetable oil or something edible lard,grease whatever. Else your next few pots of coffee are not going to taste good...
Growing up on the Ohio River, I remember my grandmother had a percolator and the coffee always smelled so wonderful. Of course I wasn’t permitted to enjoy it but I can still remember the distinct aroma Every once in a while I see an old percolator in one of the local thrift stores here in Columbus
👍👍👍Nice hack 😊. I'm looking for one of those old percolators .. one in working order. My late Mother-in-Law had one that she had received as a Wedding Present in the 50's and had used ever since. The inner workings somehow went missing but the pot still does service in keeping the Mutt's water bowl topped up 😊. Thanks for sharing .. take care ..
A CAN OF " LIKE BUTTON " -FOR THE MULLIGAN. GREAT VIDEO. THE HEAT SHIELD HAS BEEN DEPLOYED. READY FOR RE-ENTRE CAPTAIN... INTO THE FIRE OF COURSE. CHEERS.
Great video! You could also leave the spoon whole and drill a second whole at the top which may eliminate the need to cut the coffee pot handle.
Yes, you could definitely do that!
You beat me to that comment
Was going to be my comment as well. It wouldn't replace the handle probably, but with more material around the top bolt, certainly would take the strain off the matierial at the lower part of the spoon.
That's what I was thinking. It would increase the strength a little and would mean the handle wasn't put under strain.
Wondering if an old-fashioned metal shoehorn would possibly work as a heat shield? The picture of the heat shield you showed reminded me of the shape of a bent shoehorn.
Thank you for presenting such wonderful ideas, information and history. God bless you!
That might be better as the hole you drill would have more material around it than the spoon handle.
When I saw the illistration that was my first thought or maybe an old church key opener.
Very clever. My wife and I switched to an electric percolator over 5 years ago as it provides better flavor compared to drip coffee and with percolator filters it is even better. I plan will use a camp percolator when away from electric power.
it'd work just fine if you can find an old metal one just more bending involved!! all the horns i've seen in the past 20 or so years have been plastic though!!
That's a good idea! Thanks so much for watching and God bless you too!
One day I couldn't find the refillable K-cups for my electric coffee maker. So I pulled the old percolator pot out of the back of the cabinet, cleaned it up and have been using it ever since. Makes a far better cup of coffee than the k-cups.
That's excellent!
And uses less coffee as well!
I used to have one of those percolators. Couldn’t find it and got a modern one with a wood handle. You could also forego all that work and wrap some aluminum foil on the bottom of the handle. Don’t
know how many hobos would have access to a drill, file or hacksaw. But it was a great video! Love your channel.❤
Thanks so much for watching!
@ Your content is awesome!👏
I have a coffee pot just like that , picked it out of the trash a few years ago , thinks for this great video , great idea , have a great blessed day AMEN .
It's made of aluminum. I called the herbalist with a doctorate I go to, she affirmed aluminum cooking containers are an Alzheimers risk.
Awesome! Thank you!
Cool flame deflector hack.
Thanks!
Makes the best coffee😋
Thanks for watching!
Sure, they're great. If you're a masochist that loves burned coffee. Otherwise, you get yourself a moka pot, a french press, or just do pour over.
Love it! Everybody under 20 something years old is trying to figure out why you are using that old hand cranked drill. When all traditional power sources are out of reach, these old drills still do the job just fine. A small center punch (or a nail) would help keep the drill bit from drifting off its mark when they start drilling, too.
Indeed, they're quite handy! Thanks so much for watching!
Same thought I had, as well as taking a ball pein and flattening that narrow part of the handle a wee bit to give it a bit more meat around the hole being drilled, if the metal would take it. I’m going to try it.
Got one just like that and now I know how to fix it thanks to you James. Thank you very much. Happy New Year
Excellent! Thanks for watching! Happy New Year!
My father's father left the family so my Dad had to earn money to help the family as a young teenager. He was hired to go door to door to try to sell these coffee pots.
They are actually good pots. My mom gave me one that someone gave her and it got lost so I had to go online to find another One because they do not sell them in stores. You can also make teas and stuff in them as well as coffee.
❤ I have 3 of these coffee pots. 2 still have the insides but one dosen't. I use that one for boiling water. I am sorry to hear the hardships your Dad went through as a young man. I can never understand how Dads or Moms can abandoned their families. He is to be commended for helping Mom and stepping up when the times were tough. Tells a lot about the type of man your Father is.
Interesting. Times were definitely tougher back then! Glad to hear that your dad was able to step up and help the family, though.
@@shermrock345 Three points off your man card for making tea is a coffee pot. 😐😁😐
An ingenious solution to an, often vexing problem. Cheers
Thanks so much for watching!
I got the same one works perfect lived in woods and streets for six monthes
Excellent! They are really cool!
I have the same Comet pot. Just repaired the handle as it was totally bury away.
Mine is a 2 cup pot so it looks even smaller.
Awesome to see another and someone keeping it going.
Thanks for the video
That's awesome! Thanks for watching.
James...
Thank you for all these tips, tricks, and videos. I truly enjoyed your 1790's series and am currently enjoying the Hobo.
I'm praying God's blessing upon you and yours!
...I'm now hankerin' for a cup of coffee!
You're very welcome! Happy New Year and God bless you too!
Great idea and an awesome example of good ole make due with what youve got thinking!! God bless brother and thanks!!
Thanks, you too!
So fun tinkering around!!❤
It really is!
Ingenious hack and I love your channel! Someone may already have suggested this, but knocking a small indent into the spoon handle with a hammer and punch would make drilling a lot easier
Yes, I probably should have done that. Thanks so much for watching and for the suggestion!
Very creative, James! I always look forward to your presentations. Before I realized your ingenuity in making a heat shield from an old spoon, another possibility entered my mind. In my accumulation of various pieces of hardward, I have a variety of metal drawer handles. One whose dimensions match the holes in the Hobo Coffee pot might also be iused as a replacenmment handle if the original handle melts or is no longer functional. Hope that your Chriatmas was blessed & that its blessings will carry throughtout the coming year! May God bless you & yours!
Mr George Cobb,
You're right..., once't again, Mr Cobb,
using a metal hardware handle works well, yet...
Don' fergit them leather glovies or a heavy piece o' cotton cloth...; that bakelite were designed so's not to git too hot, percolatin' o'er the campfire.
🙂
Rick Bonner Pennsyltuck
That’s a great idea! Thanks so much for watching! Happy New Year and God bless you too, my brother!
Very cool hack! Very hobo-esk ingenuity, using the resources around you to fix a problem
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Great idea, I make coffee in my backyard in the summer here in Canada, I actually did melt the handle off my pot. Thanks for the great idea. Happy New Year! Thanks for all the great videos and hard work you put into them.👍🇨🇦🇺🇸🎉🍻🍾
Glad you liked it and Happy New Year!
Setcthe spoon in the campfire to soften. THEN bend the spoon.
To cut the spoon shaft, set in campfire. Remove and use hand axe blade, hit with a rock log piece, axe blade will cut through.
I would find a spoon with a wider shaft. Drill the hole large enough to fit over the threaded insert.
In any case, a good fix.
Thanks so much for watching!
Awesome heat shield!☕️
Glad you liked it!
Great idea! I'll try it on an old percolator I picked up a few years ago.
Thanks for watching!
I have a 1920s and a 1950s both 2 cup. My 20s has a small bit of the bottom of the handle melted. This trick is what I need. Thank you for sharing!
Glad it helped!
By the way, what I regard as another myth. The coffee is not boiled. The perking happens at a lower temperature and the coffee is not burned, yet a lot of people avoid this great way to make coffee. Control flavor by how how much coffee is used and by how long the coffee is brewed. Over or under brewing can be a problem with any method.
Thank You for the hack.
Also, the side of an aluminum can might work in a pinch?
Absolutely brilliant!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Very good idea. I'll keep an eye out for one of those pots.
Thanks for watching!
Good idea! It’s even good for just pots used in the home if they are susceptible to damage from your stoves burners.
Very true!
I have My Grandfathers drill almost Identical to Yours. A good way to start is tap with a needle drill or pin drill first. Absolute Game Changer when using those types of drills
True. Thanks for watching!
Simple and easy, just like when it was invented or made beautiful.Thank you
You're very welcome!
Great info, my grandmas coffee was loved by everyone
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good stuff. My grandfather's kit used a piece of an old coffee can as a heat shield. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year. Stay classic my friend.
That's a great idea! Happy New Year to you as well.
Very nice work and ingenious hack!! I'd be afraid I'd snap that spoon where the hole was drilled. I would use a wider handled spoon for myself.
Yes, you could definitely do that.
The remainder of the spoon can be bent around something round to form a finger ring.
Sure, you could do that. Thanks for watching!
Now that is a Hobo hack if I have ever seen one! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Very good tip ! I’m gonna try that on my little one! Thanks
I'm glad you found it helpful!
Great idea for my current day coffee pot. Happy New Year.
Same to you!
Looks like my parents coffeemaker theyve been using while camping since the 1970's on a portable gas stove.
That's very cool!
Great video James
I will keep this in mind.
Glad it was helpful!
Brother! As The LORD does know, I have wasted one or so of these exact old pots exactly because I was not so smart! Love it! [PS, I have so far finished the 1700s vids, and hope to finish the other series. Carry on!]
Glad you are enjoying the channel. Thanks for watching!
Nice trick, and would be perfectly correct for the time. Have a great new year, see you down the tracks.
Sounds good, my friend! Happy New Year!
i like this this is a idea i like how u kept this authentic locking
Thanks so much!
I have my great grandma's percolator, a cast aluminum "Wagner Ware." She cooked over a wooden cook stove, but she was obviously careful as the handle is intact. 😊
Excellent!
Happy New Year.
Happy New Year to you too!
Great idea. I wish you all the best for the new year and more great video's. Greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you! You too!
Good hack James, thanks for sharing, YAH bless brother !
Thanks for watching and God bless you too, my friend! Happy New Year!
In hard times a make and mend attitude is a good thing to have.
Absolutely!
That is very interesting I have one of those. They work extremely well. Thanks for sharing take care.
I'm glad you found it helpful!
I enjoy watching your fixes. Duct tape, bailing wire, and a thrift store. 😊
That’s cool you see old stuff with weird things added to them and you you wonder who did that and it’s good to see stuff like this makeshift improvements very good stuff thanks ❤
Indeed! Thank you for watching!
I’d just use a little piece of tin or something, and make the hole big enough to go over that "nipple" that sticks out of the pot. Then you don’t have to cut the handle. Still a great idea though.
Happy new year, and best wishes for what’s to come for you and your family.
Thanks for watching!
Another good idea! Thanks, James! Wishing you and yours a very happy, healthy New Year. Blessings be upon you and your family in the coming new year!
Thank you so much! Wishing you and your family a happy and healthy New Year as well!
Aweso.e video I never would have thought about doing this
Glad you liked it!
frankly James i'd let it hang down more so i had a wider drill point! we used to take those old pots toss the insides add a bail to them and use them as bush pots for cooking, the spout came in handy when making a pasta dish for draining the water off!! now a days we get those grease pots from Wally world to make our bush pot from!!
Right on!
Definitely a great idea.
Glad you liked it!
I brewed perk pot coffee over an open fire for a year strait. This would have come in handy. I just used a flat rock set on the grate below the handle. It worked, but this is better.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I like the bell shape type I have one in my chuck box
Excellent!
James, I would carry a 12”x12” sheet of aluminum like an old aluminum sign , or maybe a cookie sheet then just sit the coffee pot on the metal sheet I did this for my large mocha pot. It amazing how many friend a man with coffee has in cold weather.
Great idea!
Great hack
Thanks so much!
Nice pot and video. I just used my Wearever Alu percolator recently 😊. Take care James
Thanks! Glad you liked the video, my friend! Happy New Year!
Happy New Year
Happy New Year to you too, my friend!
I have the same hand drill...I love it.👍
That's a great drill!
If you take a hammer and flatten the area where screw hole is to be drilled, so that it is wider (and thinner), then there will be at least 2x more metal around the hole, making it stronger.
Yes, you could do that.
Yes I thought the same thing.
The only problem with that is in the danger of making the metal too thin thus weakening it all the way around.
Very handy!
Thanks for watching!
Great video brother
Much appreciated!
Outstanding ‼️👍
Thanks for the visit!
I have that same coffee pot. I think i even remember seeing that accessory in a box somewhere near were the coffee pot is keep. Have to look one of these days.
Oh cool!
James spoon bender. Great hack James thanks!
You're very welcome!
I feel bad for the old timers that had to deal with all those flat heads screws. Lol. Another great video, sir!!
Thanks so much for watching!
Great trick. This handle has seen better times for sure ;)
Thanks for watching!
Great hack!
Thanks for watching!
Cool idea. Thank you and God bless.
Thanks, you too!
Brilliant!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I carry 2 percolator coffee pots in my kit bag. They don’t weigh much and can be filled with other gear so they don’t take up much space. Mine have a protected handle and a BAIL!
One is for boiling water for sterilization or for melting snow. The other is for soup or the like. They are about $25 from Walmart. We actually have a bunch of them at home too.
Excellent. Thanks for watching!
Great idea
Thanks!
Happy New Year 🎉 thanks for sharing everthis past year, here's to a great one buddy 🎉
Thanks so much for watching and for the support! Happy New Year to you as well!
Nice. If the spoon handle is very narrow, as yours is, I would recommend flattening it out with a hammer to widen it before drilling.
I thought about that, but it might thin it out too much to make it effective.
Another heat shield material would be the top from a tin can: poke a hole with a nail close to the edge; bend up a lip; dull the edges to reduce risk of getting cut. Save the spoon to eat with or for trading to the junk peddler.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Cool video it reminds me of my grandad’s one
Thanks for watching!
Great hack jim
Thanks so much, my friend!
Good job
Thanks!
Nice repair!
I love it when someone comes over and I give them my cordless dripl like yours, always good foe a chuckle with a younger person! 😂
Right on!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
GREAT ONE!!!
Thanks!
Just a suggestion for the oil part,use a vegetable oil or something edible lard,grease whatever. Else your next few pots of coffee are not going to taste good...
That screw hole doesn't go all the way to the inside of the pot. So it won't matter.
I actually greased mine with bacon grease.
Outstanding!
Thank you kindly!
Very cool !!! Ty for the vid
Thanks for watching!
You’ve been enjoying this beautiful warm weather we’ve been having! Get ready, it is about to change!🥶
Indeed. Lots of Winter on the way!
Good ideas
Glad you like them!
Growing up on the Ohio River, I remember my grandmother had a percolator and the coffee always smelled so wonderful. Of course I wasn’t permitted to enjoy it but I can still remember the distinct aroma
Every once in a while I see an old percolator in one of the local thrift stores here in Columbus
Very cool! Thanks so much for watching!
Thanks!
You're welcome!
nice! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Heating the pots metal near the handle can slowly burn the baclite. I recommend placing a cork washer, or similar, to better insulate against heat.
Good idea!
👍👍👍Nice hack 😊.
I'm looking for one of those old percolators .. one in working order.
My late Mother-in-Law had one that she had received as a Wedding Present in the 50's and had used ever since. The inner workings somehow went missing but the pot still does service in keeping the Mutt's water bowl topped up 😊.
Thanks for sharing .. take care ..
You can often find them on eBay for a pretty good price.
Awesome hack great information Happy New year 🎉
Thanks! Happy New Year to you too!
I still have an old percolator coffeepot that's a family heirloom!😊
That is awesome!
Yup
Thanks!
Dear Sir,
A mill file works best on metal burs I have found over the years of light metal work. As usual, an outstanding video.
Thanks again!
A CAN OF
" LIKE BUTTON " -FOR THE MULLIGAN. GREAT VIDEO.
THE HEAT SHIELD HAS BEEN DEPLOYED. READY FOR
RE-ENTRE CAPTAIN... INTO THE FIRE OF COURSE. CHEERS.
Thanks so much for watching!
nice one bud
Thanks so much!
Yup just like mine ❤
Thanks for watching!