Rivets To Mend Cooking Pots.

[sandyRoe]

You might have seen cards of them in old fashioned hardware shops. What would the cooks of those Days have been doing that pots would need mending?

[Svejk]

Hitting their poor, long-suffering partners over the noggin?

[Svejk]

Glad I've been single since the microwave was invented.

[sandyRoe]

That's it. Sometimes when you see an answer it seems so obvious you wonder how it missed you.

[retrocop]

Well they certainly don't seem much good at pot making skills years ago.
I remember having to learn off by heart the definition of a Pedlar under the Pedlar's Act of 1800 whatever.
A
man who travels on foot or with beast of burden to other mens houses,a tinker,petty chapman,mender of chairs and pots and pans etc etc.
Words to that effect. 46 years ago I had to learn that rubbish.!!

[Svejk]

I suppose us using them as drums and helmets didn't help.

[sandyRoe]

They were still going in the'70s? I'd though I'd seen the repair kits in the early 60s alongside boxes of gas mantles.

[retrocop]

Lol
It's like the Notting Hill carnival when my 4 year old grand daughter and her baby sister get into the lower kitchen pot and pan cupboard with a couple of wooden spatulas that fall out of Grandpas hand. :-)

[Svejk]

Everything was shoddily built in the good old days, wasn't it.

[sandyRoe]

The device to mend shoes on wasn't. It was a 3 footed cast iron cobblers last. Passing a posh House the other day I saw one being used as a door stop.

[Svejk]

Doesn't say much for the shoes.

[sandyRoe]

http://www.museumsofmayo.com/belcarra/belcarra01.jpg
Like this.

[Svejk]

That's the blade of a rotavator, sandy. Have you any glasses?

[Mamyalynne]

Erm......

http://www.museumsofmayo.com/belcarra/belcarra-cobblers-last.htm

[Mamyalynne]

The fact that shoes could be repaired often with new soles/heels etc shows how well made they were rather than being a throwaway item.

[sandyRoe]

Judging from the state of it they might also have used It as a weight for their fishing nets. Multi function. And why three feet?

[ummmm]

I don't know if they still do but Church's shoes, Northampton (home of the cobblers) used to offer a life time guarantee with their shoes.

[Svejk]

I know why milking stools had 3 feet. Same principle perhaps.
(if it wasn't a rotavator blade)

[Mamyalynne]

To enable the cobbler to repair shoes of varying shapes and sizes - later ones in shops were more refined and they had a variety of shapes to suit differing footwear, some fixed to the bench.

[Mags22]

Svejk, maybe it gave better balance if the cow kicked out