Rich Luczak
06-23-2008, 6:20 AM
Hi,
New to the forum. I’ve been very lucky in a few old tools recently. I have several Baileys and a couple of Bedrocks, saw set and vise, a very old miter box w/ a Disston saw and a bunch of chisels. Pretty much all the planes came from the same guy. They were so bad that literally the first step in getting them cleaned up was scraping off the insect eggs.
I have two stuck adjustors; both froze to the screw and out of the plane. I’ve been spraying them w/ PB Blaster, setting them up in a socket and putting a bit of the PBB and letting’ it set. What is the best way to grip the screw w/o ruining it? Will heat help? Also, is there a supplier of these parts? I have another plane that needs one.
I tried Envirorust on the tools and am happy w/ the results, but I noticed that the business end of cutters is much darker that the rest of the steel when it is removed from the Envirorust I’m guessing that this indicates that there are two types of steel, and the black stuff is carbon. Am I correct?
New to the forum. I’ve been very lucky in a few old tools recently. I have several Baileys and a couple of Bedrocks, saw set and vise, a very old miter box w/ a Disston saw and a bunch of chisels. Pretty much all the planes came from the same guy. They were so bad that literally the first step in getting them cleaned up was scraping off the insect eggs.
I have two stuck adjustors; both froze to the screw and out of the plane. I’ve been spraying them w/ PB Blaster, setting them up in a socket and putting a bit of the PBB and letting’ it set. What is the best way to grip the screw w/o ruining it? Will heat help? Also, is there a supplier of these parts? I have another plane that needs one.
I tried Envirorust on the tools and am happy w/ the results, but I noticed that the business end of cutters is much darker that the rest of the steel when it is removed from the Envirorust I’m guessing that this indicates that there are two types of steel, and the black stuff is carbon. Am I correct?