Bonding Metal (cookie sheets) for use in oven...?
Question:I need to bond two open ended cookie sheets together( they will overlap in their centers by 4 inches) to make one perfect sized cookie sheet for my odd sized convection oven in my kitchen-less studio apartment...
How can I bond these two tin plated steel cookie sheets together? The overlap would be perfect for glue or silicon--an adhesive that can take oven temperatures to at least 400F...? Because of the overlap, the adhesive would never come close to having any contact with food that would be above on the cookie sheet(s). Plus I use parchment paper liners for baking...
Any ideas are most appreciated.
Answers:
Go to a welding shop. or a muffler shop. shouldnt be more than a few bucks.
I would suggest taking it to a metal shop and have them spot weld the pieces together. It's not like regular welding...it's just two electrified "prongs" that pinch the metal together and bond them to each other and can be done in seconds. Probably will cost little or nothing to do it (depending on the shop's ethics). Good Luck.
Do not use any adhesives, not a good idea. I like the spot welding idea, or you could rivit or screw them together on the edges, so it won't catch the grate in the oven.
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