harry wrote:
On Jul 24, 10:16 am, "john thompson" wrote:
An aluminium saucepan was dropped on the kitchen floor and now the
lid will not fit on, due to a fairly small flattening of one side.

The saucepan is 16cm in diameter and the aluminium is 3 mm thick. My
thumbs are just not strong enought to push the side out enough for
the lid to fit on.

Cannot think of a way to get a good leverage on it to re-shape it,
without damaging the non stick coating on the inside of the
saucepan. Grateful for any suggestion. Thanks.

Put a piece of large diameter pipe in the vice. Rest the inside of
the pan on this and work the metal by hammering the outside of the
pan.
Straightforward job.

All of the suggestions which center around or include hammering are likely
to fail, since the OP state he has a non-stick surface he does not want to
damage. I would recommend a rolling action. Do a bit of research on
paintless dent removal and get an idea how to restore a surface. Do not
start from the deepest part of the dent - regardless of what's been said
here...

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-Mike-