Reply To: Stanley 80 Cabinet Scraper Bottom
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I wonder if you could afix a thin wooden plate as a new sole rather than flattening by grinding? As a quick test, you could cut a thin plate, fashion a mouth, and attach with double sided tape to the flatter section. This is only a quick test, so fill the gap between the metal sole and the wooden plate with something like auto body filler (Bondo!). When dry, give the new sole a rub on some sandpaper on a flat surface to flatten the wooden sole. If this works, you could fashion something more permanent, although I think a filler of some kind will always be involved. You might not even need the bondo for the first quick test…maybe some wedges. It doesn’t have to be pretty. You just want to see if you can take good shavings with the extra thickness. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work other than the blade flexing against the wooden plate and thus causing the plate to fall off. Tapping holes in the metal sole will fix that, but you don’t want to do that as a test, plus it thickens the sole to accommodate the flathead screws.