Reply To: No4 stanley iron won’t back off sufficiently
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Bumping this 4 year old discussion in case someone comes back to it… I just ran into another cause for this problem. I have a Bailey #4 that does not retract fully. The cause seems to be the brass depth adjustment knob. On my other Stanley / Bailey planes, the depth adjuster will tighten fully against the frog. On this one, there is some interference that is stopping the knob about 1/32″ short. I can see a gap between the bottom of the adjuster and the back of the frog.
The interference may be between the back of the depth knob (next to the knurling) and the yoke. If I put a 1″ knob on instead of the 1 1/4″ one, it works fine. The thing is, though, that his frog appears to be a Type 16-20, but those frogs used 1 1/4″ knobs. So, I’m not sure what is going on.
If this is the problem, I could either swap the knob or file 1/32″ off the back of the yoke.