I’d picked up this piece 20+ years ago from another railroad employee and it was missing the hinged lid. I found a complete bowl on eBay and captured the images for future reference. Looking at the photos I determined the thickness was close to .040” and found some Evergreen plastic tube that was the same size as the hinge on the bowl. I cut the lid out, glued on the rod and found a piece of brass rod that fit the opening. Next I needed to make up the round handle. I have a 54 ounce Eagle coffee pot and used a set of calipers to determine the size of the ball and the base it sat on. An eBay seller had the proper size wood ball. Using Evergreen plastic I cut out the sizes and glued to the lid. After all was dry, I filled in the gaps with Tamiya putty and covered the ball in a light coat of potty to seal the wood. After the putty dried I filed and sanded the pieces until all were smooth and matched the lid on the coffee pot.

Once I was satisfied with the shape I sprayed both sides with sandable primer and let it dry overnight. The following day I sprayed it with Tamiya silver but decided it’s too flat of a finish. I’ve ordered a ‘chrome’ paint that hopefully better matches the original silver piece when it’s polished.

While it’s certainly not a perfect replacement I’ll never find the missing lid. The hinge on the left side of the bowl had part of it missing but I didn’t want to modify the original bowl, the new top looks better than the bowl did when it was missing the lid.

My next restoration is a little more involved. I have a GCL coffee pot that’s missing the handle. I found photos recently of a complete pot on the web so I now know what kind of shape the handle is I just need to determine if I’ll make the replacement out of wood or use plastic again. [attachment=7:3jtl74oi]DC17654C-B411-481C-B21A-5CCDE0AC1EA0.jpeg[/attachment:3jtl74oi][attachment=6:3jtl74oi]A46B26FA-1318-43BE-8217-8AFC20BCC501.jpeg[/attachment:3jtl74oi][attachment=5:3jtl74oi]1AEE12BF-8A88-44B0-A576-3BEE90074B17.jpeg[/attachment:3jtl74oi][attachment=4:3jtl74oi]52F16B72-B95F-4BCE-8AE6-56B91AD288F0.jpeg[/attachment:3jtl74oi][attachment=3:3jtl74oi]C21C6D65-EEC5-4BAA-B083-529AE97CB8FF.jpeg[/attachment:3jtl74oi][attachment=2:3jtl74oi]65420B35-1ACB-4898-BA4B-C9C817589D6A.jpeg[/attachment:3jtl74oi][attachment=1:3jtl74oi]E4B39226-BAB1-4C90-A70E-D86343C79B11.jpeg[/attachment:3jtl74oi]