Can’t get a grip on saucepan’s old handle

[Lionessadmirer]

Can anyone help me get this old handle base off my saucepan so I can put a new handle on?
I’ve tried pliers but can’t get a grip…. (Pliers are metal)

Omg those plumbers wrenches look like fun!

what I need is an old fashioned hardware shop where I could take the pan…

ours closed last year and is much missed :(

You could try heating just the lumpy bit over a gas jet or even a candle flame for a few minutes and then putting a wet cloth over it. If you can get a decent grip with the red-handled pliers it might be enough to shift it.

My extended family won’t ever let me forget that I thought mole grips were a pair of gauntlet type gloves for catching moles 🙄

Heat it up the oven and then add some wd40 to the bit that needs to twist.

The handle end is missing a bit. It should have a hole in it (yellow circle).
I'd use an adjustable wrench on the bit indicated by orange arrow or pliers on the bit indicated by red arrow.

Red arrow is the one likely to work.

Love the arrows!

yes, the bit at the end had a circle bit. But I tried to use that for torque and snapped it.

My drawing wasn't great! Let us know how you get on. Thanks.

Seeing as the end has already snapped broken, I'd drill a hole into it and stick a screwdriver through it to make it turn. You'll need a new end anyway.

If it's so stuck that it won't come off even then, you'll have to get it off in pieces. Do you have an angle grinder?

Sounds as though it’s seized. Metal on metal is a bugger for that.

have you tried running some oil down the threads, then leaving it for a short while?

maybe something thin and silicone would grip it with pliers?

I don't know where you are in relation to Leeds, OP, but there's Allen's Ironmongers shop in Tadcaster? ( Going since 1851!)

Have you tried spraying WD40 at it?

Do I have an angle grinder? i think we both know the answer to that! :)

Just a little one! Everyone should have a little cordless angle grinder. I'd be lost without mine.

Love this even more when said in the voice of your namesake

Place-making for when the handle comes off, and all the tips in-between.

I've not had time to read this, but it may have useful info:

https://wood-be-nice.co.uk/pap_lec.html

1st I'd spray wd 40 on the threads & the end fixing & have it at the bottom so it drips down do it several times over a day & leave it overnight. Next day proper wrench/mole grips. If no good, blowtorch on end but trying to keep shaft cool, you are trying to get that metal to expand away from the threaded bar shaft. If no blowtorch, gas hob, then carefully try & remove.

Remember lefty loosey righty tighty.

Good luck.

If you were closer I'd have had a crack for you but you are a couple of hundred miles away.