Defacing the Queen
I've got one of those 5 ring cookers, the ones with a wok burner in the middle. This burner has 2 caps: a big ring for the outer flame, and a small one less than an inch across for the centre flame.

We lost the small one, and when I found out it would cost SIXTY EARTH POUNDS to replace, I decided to improvise. So I defaced a £2 coin thus: measure for the locator groove on the underside by comparing the studs on the burner, and then clamp the £2 into my mate's lathe and score the groove in with a tungsten bit. Because I'm of a republican bent, and also because the £2 is a handsome coin, I gouged through Her Maj's face.

Sorted, as long as I don't get nicked for treason. And the copper means the flames are pretty.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 8:15, 9 replies)

Cool
A £58 saving. Result.
(Suck it and Sea, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 8:24, closed)

this sounds suspiciously like a job well done with the right tools
How dare you! This is against everything we stand for
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Fri 11 Mar 2011, 9:30, closed)

I concur.
You should only have posted this story if it involved nailing the £2 coin to the cooker with a shard of chicken wire. And it was a 50p coin that you roughly sanded the corners off.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 9:39, closed)

Thirded.
Canny idea though.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 10:05, closed)

Aren't nickel fumes really unpleasant and potentially dangerous?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 10:07, closed)

Maybe
that qualifies it for being a bodge job then?
(RTFM May your god go with you, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 11:17, closed)

If the OP never responds
then we can only assume that he's been overcome by fumes, slumped into his salt and pepper prawns and suffered grotesque facial burns.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 11:30, closed)

I'm pretty sure the metal vapour will condense on the underside of the wok...
...before it reaches the cook.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 13:59, closed)

Hee :)
"Earth pounds"
click
( Droog is too orangey for crows, Fri 11 Mar 2011, 15:56, closed)