by bobhenry » Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:47 am
If you really want to make bails for the pots, look at a good hardware store. They will have a rack with handy steel. Short length of angle, flat stock, and other forms. In that rack you should find 3/16+/- round rod. I used this for the jay hooks for my overhead pot and pan rack. You will have to bend the bail first. Try clamping an end to a small round object. The first thing that came to my mind was an 8 or 10 inch trailer rim. Clamp the one end with vise grips and form the rod around the object. Next run it thru the pan ears to access where you want your final bends to be at the ears of your pot. I would mark them with a marker. Next trap a small hex nut ( 5/16 maybe 3/8) in a vice so you can poke the wire thru and with pliers bend the loop hook for the ears. When I made my pot hooks I bent them around an older style pressure cooker weight making about an 1 3/4 maybe 2 inch bend. My point , the bigger the nut or form the larger the ear bend.
Growing older but not up !