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Hi Kirsty,
Firstly, my apologies for not getting back to you sooner. Your photo is of the cutter clamping bracket, which is used for holding the very narrow irons (1/8th and 3/16th) – see photo of mounted cutter clamping bracket holding a 3/16 iron. The other item in the box is the shaving or chip deflector, which goes in the same hole as the depth stop so both cannot be used at the same time!
I have attached a photo of one of the spurs on the main body of the plane and another photo of the spur position on the “sliding section” of the Record 050 plane. There should be two spurs and mounting screws with the Record 050 plane and they have a single lobe on the base of the spur, which has to be carefully sharpened. I have also attached a photo of one spur and its mounting screw. Both are very small and very easy to lose – which is why these planes are so often found without them! Look after them. They are very hard to get hold of separately. If you find any in the bottom of some box of miscellaneous blades at a car boot sale – grab them because it is likely that the seller will not have any idea what they are and how critical they can be to these planes. Learn to recognize them. If you find a similarly tiny piece of metal with three “lobes” on it – this is the equivalent item on the Record 405 combination plane – same problem – they’re tiny and they get lost easily and were often left amongst the detritus at the bottom of toolboxes by their previous owners.
Did your plane come with a set of instructions? If not, look at Alice Frampton’s “Cornish Workshop” website under the tag “Combi Plane Central”. ( Don’t bother going to the Blog as it is long defunct). There are plenty of sets of instructions to download for all sorts of “Combination Planes”, including the Stanley equivalents. A very useful sit for all of these combi plane things!
I hope that this info helps you a little.
Cheers
Mark