On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:16:21 +0100, "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.

Bearing in mind that the OP is heavily cross-posted and that "john
thompson" hasn't yet returned to this thread or the cross-posted
strimmer or baseball bat threads either and I could be talking to
myself here, my chosen method would be to drop the lid onto the
kitchen floor from the same height at the same angle as the saucepan
and try to knock a flattening into that too.

If it's good enough for teapot lids to have a flat on the
circumference then I reckon it's good enough for teflon-coated 3mm
thick ally pans too.

Nick