Tyler Howell
12-24-2004, 12:28 AM
Pulled the newest addition of the fleet into dry dock for restoration.
I posted on another thread about this Stanley #5 that belonged to my Grandmother's father, then her husband my Grandfather.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=14905
My great grandfather was a carpenter. Mom told of how he could estimate to the nail, the number needed to build a house.
My grandfather was a jack of all trades and did it well.
A number of the planes in the fleet have been cleaned and lapped but this was going to be a major overhaul. I had a couple offers to do the restoration. I figured this was a right of passage and decided to attempt it myself.
Followed up on a lot of the links bookmarked and also those posted by Creekers John and Leif. Did a quick inventory of supplies and went shopping.
Beumont's Quality Tools had the replacement Y lever, lateral lever and frog I needed. After and hour and a half of BS, I left armed with tools, parts and confidence to tackle this task.
Earlier in the week I :
Disassembled the plane (lots of ugly spoog).
Sprayed all metal parts down with Simply Green and let sit for about and hour.
Took the hose to it with a synthetic brush.
Compressed air, heat gun, then bagged it with an ample coating of WD (water displacement) 40.
Tonight I carefully scraped all surfaces with a razor knife. Japaning was long gone.
Lapping sole and sides with 80 &100 paper on the lapping plate.
More to come.
I posted on another thread about this Stanley #5 that belonged to my Grandmother's father, then her husband my Grandfather.
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=14905
My great grandfather was a carpenter. Mom told of how he could estimate to the nail, the number needed to build a house.
My grandfather was a jack of all trades and did it well.
A number of the planes in the fleet have been cleaned and lapped but this was going to be a major overhaul. I had a couple offers to do the restoration. I figured this was a right of passage and decided to attempt it myself.
Followed up on a lot of the links bookmarked and also those posted by Creekers John and Leif. Did a quick inventory of supplies and went shopping.
Beumont's Quality Tools had the replacement Y lever, lateral lever and frog I needed. After and hour and a half of BS, I left armed with tools, parts and confidence to tackle this task.
Earlier in the week I :
Disassembled the plane (lots of ugly spoog).
Sprayed all metal parts down with Simply Green and let sit for about and hour.
Took the hose to it with a synthetic brush.
Compressed air, heat gun, then bagged it with an ample coating of WD (water displacement) 40.
Tonight I carefully scraped all surfaces with a razor knife. Japaning was long gone.
Lapping sole and sides with 80 &100 paper on the lapping plate.
More to come.