Restoration of an Old-Fashioned Popcorn Popper
For this week's restoration and repair video we restore a disgusting, dirty old-fashioned popcorn popper that has collected 50 years worth of grease and rust and may have been on fire at some point. It has been in our family since the early 1970's and probably hasn't been used in 35 years. Watch as we repair and restore it to its former beautiful self before putting it to use and pretty much destroying everything we just did!
The history of this popcorn popper is fascinating. The designs for it date back to the 1800's when it was patented by William Wood and eventually manufactured by the Bromwell Wire Good Company which STILL MANUFACTURES IT TODAY! It's website claims that the same equipment and dies are used that were first used in the late 1800's. Marketed as the Original Popcorn Popper, it now charges $150 for one.
Here is a timeline to what you will see in this video:
00:00 Presentation of the "before" piece
00:19 Disassembly
02:29 Soaking in rust remover
02:45 Cleaning handle pieces
03:19 Fabrication of new lid handle
04:55 Scrubbing grease and rust from pan and lid
06:45 Preparing zinc plating solution
07:26 Hammering out deformations
07:47 Zinc plating the lid and pan
09:08 Finishing the handle pieces
10:51 Seasoning the pan
11:54 Assembling
12:09 Tragedy!
12:19 Re-fabricating the lid handle
13:21 Assembling...Part 2
15:27 Final reveal
15:51 Testing over an open fire and old-fashioned popcorn popping!
17:25 Eloise joins the party for popcorn!
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