Haven't had much luck on weekend garage sales in re: tools
of late so I dropped into a local antique store this afternoon.
Spotted a No. 8 Plane. I had passed on it when the owner first got it in months ago.
He offered then to sell it to me for $25. Tote was bad, lots of rust and I had no real
or pressing need for it then or today. This afternoon I picked it up and went to
front counter with it and we used a magnifying glass to look at iron.
All you could see was S maybe a T on top line under that P
Owner of store offered to sell it to me for $25 again. I told him
that was a good price. For some reason I forked over the money
and took it back to shop.
The bottom edge of lever cap is jagged; any one have any thoughts
on an attempted JB Weld fix given that I am keeping the plane?
Some vague instinct told me that JB Weld would be crossing some line
I am not aware of even for clean-up of a "keeper" which hopefully will be
used in my shop.
One observation from clean-up so far. I tried a 45 degree angle working
with red "steel " wool and then 45 degree the other orientation.
It really seemed to work better than long axis or 90 degree to that.
However, I had to stop to mow front yard before dark and on return the
black rust had "clouded" back over the trademark.
Would anyone know if the machine screw the goes through iron, cap iron
and lever cap is left hand thread? I am soaking it from under side with PB Blaster;
no bigtime force has been used yet.
Anyways, check out the patent dates that I uncovered with some work
this evening. You'll have to trust that the second picture does show a No. 8.
For once I was trying to focus on getting before pics. The No. 8 is somewhat
more clear and legible to make out now.
If anyone has an appropriate spare tote for the plane (same time period and Type No. 8)
I would be open to purchase. If I can't get a "correct" replacement I will just make my own.
Thanks for any input or knowledge.
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