Pans warping

[phishisgroovin]

so, i have some green gold pans that are a year & 1/2 old.

in the center on the bottom of the pans they are all lifting upwards, how do i get these to drop back down and get rid of the raised center?

How do you guys keep your pans from warping, i believe its caused from the heat and sun while out panning, other than carrying a tarp to work under and block the sun out, can one heat the backsides with a heat gun and press the raised bottoms back down without them popping back up?
Kind of hinders the final cleanup of black sands with the island of plastic forcing the water away from a flat wave with the slow rocking water at final clean.

 

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[NeoTokyo]

Yeah, you could try heating it slowing and putting something heavy and flat on it once heated. Do this a couple times till its not warped anymore.
A heated brick would probably do very well as to keep the heat a little longer.


A quality pan wont usually warp though.
I have a 14" Garrett Gravity drop pan that is REALLY OLD and has never warped on me.
I have another Green pan that is about 15 years old that again has never warped and they were used by my family before I came along.

My Blue Keene is about 2 months old, heavily used and my daughter broke a hole clean through it but I put it back together like a puzzle and patched it up with JB Weld on the back, clear Super Glue on the front and its still holding true, no warping.

What brand pan are you useing?
The cheap ones a lot of store including Ace Hardware are very light plastic and would seem the be the first to fail to me.

 

[austin]

Bet your pans maybe say CHINA somewhere on them...

 

[phishisgroovin]

they are garret pans, just confuses me why they would lift in the bottom.

May try pouring boiling water in one and place a brick in there rather than use my heat gun.

 

[freddy williams]

contact garret they will replace them I had 3 pans warpe after 3 years and they changed them out

 

[austin]

they are garret pans, just confuses me why they would lift in the bottom.

May try pouring boiling water in one and place a brick in there rather than use my heat gun.

Just kidding you. Like Mr. Williams said, back to Garret.

 

[NeoTokyo]

Whelp I guess I couldnt expect them to "Make em like they use to" heh.

For sure give Garrett a call and get a couple new pans.

Thats the diff between a good company and some no name Chinese company.

 

[TAKODA]

Keep in mind that some pans are designed with a raised center .