Hello, people are saying southern California is not a great place to find old tools, but I found some nice planes at local sales, unless..
When I see this plane, I did a quick search here and good words were said about this model and I think it's kind of unique from all the stanley ones, so I took it home. I dissembled it, soak the parts in citric acid, I didn't even realize that it's missing lateral adjustment lever until I was about the reassemble it...guess I'm blind or too excited...
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What should I do, I am thinking just using a hammer to adjust the blade? I'd like to make or buy the lever, but all I can find are stanley typed ones, which doesn't fit this sargent, because it has a smaller concave area at the frog, and need a 'step' after the rivet to fit(last picture I found online). Any suggestions? Thanks.