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I’m trying to post photos and further description, but it isn’t coming through. I tried on Chrome and couldn’t even get it to let me attach a photo. On Safari, I can attach photos, am told that the system is verifying I am human, and then the post never shows up. Perhaps it is in review by a moderator. My experience in the past is that things that go to the moderator either disappear forever or take a long time (a week or three) to show up. I’m giving up on this for now.
I guess I can at least say that I did file the yoke and this partly corrected the problem. The adjuster knob could now fully seat against the frog. There still wasn’t quite enough retraction. Further examination showed that the nose of the yoke (that engages the cap iron) was narrower than on my other planes and was also contributing to the abnormal blade retraction. I wonder if this is a replacement yoke or a poorly manufactured one? I built up the nose of the yoke with JB Kwik weld and this would have been the final step, but as anticipated, there isn’t enough surface here, no keying, and too much pressure, so the JB Kwik broke off quickly. Time for a new yoke.
As a final comment, this is a Bailey, so it should be a decent plane. Also, this is a smoothing blade, not a heavily cambered jack or scrub blade. I keep a fine set on the cap iron, so that is not the issue, either. I really think it is the yoke and the combination of these two changes did fix the problem entirely, but the epoxy is just too fragile. Time for a new yoke.
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