Reply To: Problem restoring a Stanley #4: frog seems too far back
Welcome! / Forums / General Woodworking Discussions / Tools and Tool Maintenance/Restoration / Problem restoring a Stanley #4: frog seems too far back / Reply To: Problem restoring a Stanley #4: frog seems too far back
Thanks for the helpful replies. Attached are a few more photos in case this helps.
I have taken the plane apart completely and don’t see anything broken or suspicious to my untrained eye. I loosen the frog retaining screws and after doing so the frog moves freely when I turn the frog adjustment screw. I attached an image showing how far forward the frog travels when I turn the adjustment screw to the extreme forward position. The limiting factor is the adjustment screw running out of threads but it does turn freely until then.
I also have an image showing the blade and iron cap, they are very close together, somewhere between 1/16 and 1/32″ apart.
Just in case there are some non-original parts here (I bought this on ebay) I also measured the frog adjustment screw when removed at 2.4cm (15/16″). The mouth itself of the plane body (with no blade present) is somewhere between 3/16″ and 1/4″. The distance from the bottom of lateral adjustment opening on the cap iron to the end of the cap iron (right next to the bevel of the blade) is 9.1cm.
Would a longer frog adjustment screw possibly help? Does the image of the frog’s position seen from above suggest the frog needs to be further forward or does this seem more of a problem with the cap iron’s relationship to the iron?
Thanks for any help!