Adjustment wheel blocking my hand
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21 September 2016 at 8:55 am #140536
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This may help you. If I have done this right you can hopefully see No#3 & No#4 tote templates. If you print the template off then hold it alongside your plane tote you can see if there is any difference in angle etc without having to buy a new tote.
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Maybe it is a trick of the lighting, but the chip breaker looks like flat stock with a bevel rather than the standard rounded hump stamped into the chip breaker. Is the distance from the end of the chip breaker up to the hole consistent with the measurement I posted yesterday? Is this a standard chip breaker?
Simple solution: Buy another used #4 for restoration and see if you can determine the difference. Either it’s the size of your hands or your first plane is just not made with the correct parts. Your hand does look bulky from the photo above so it could just be a snug fit if none of the other suggestions are correct.
21 September 2016 at 5:49 pm #140557The iron is a lee vally replacement .it is flat and beveled. I had concerns but using it shows it works. There is no differenc from it to the old worn down stanley combo.as far as the set. I thought it might be screwed out because of the short length
@ed the measurments are spot on with your s. For length to hole[attachment file=140558]
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You must be logged in to view attached files.22 September 2016 at 3:48 pm #140691Moving the frog foreward makes the problem worse. I can go to the edge of the mouth but can then only take a thousands shaving without plugging the mouth.
While this one works fine i am looking for a couple more.That’s weird. Maybe it’s a frankenplane and the parts simply don’t fit back together as intended. As I understand it, the edge of the frog should line up pretty darn close to the edge of the mouth or else it isn’t going to properly support the cutting iron (and I wouldn’t think it would impact the depth of cut noticeably since that is the job of the adjustment wheel). How much blade do you have exposed against your chip breaker? There shouldn’t be much exposed (1-2mm maybe?), assuming you just want to use it as a traditional smoothing plane.
22 September 2016 at 5:04 pm #140736That’s a great question @dbockel2 If the cutting edge of the iron is protruding more than a couple millimeters past the edge of the chip breaker, could mean the blade is too far out, meaning you would have to roll the adjuster knob far back. However, it sounds as if you are NOT having trouble with too thick of shavings, but too thin or none at all, so it would logically follow its not protruding too far past the chip breaker.
What happens if you keep turning the knob, does it lock up and go no further on its own? Does it lock up only when the blade hits the mouth?
This may have been addressed, but is the cutting iron correct to the plane? If it’s a different maker, could be the notch is in the wrong spot.One final thing, Can you measure from the base of the handle up to the top of the handle, vertically? I’m interested to find out how tall your handle is. It certainly looks truncated. Almost as if the owner cut it down for his kid or something.
22 September 2016 at 5:51 pm #140739I was runing the cuttingiron about 10-20 tho from the cap iron
I did move it out to1/32 or so and it helped with no disernableloss of fine cutting also gave me a bit more room in the mouth.
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You must be logged in to view attached files.Adjuster wheel does seem like it COULD be slightly too far out (based on the side-by-side pic I did earlier)–I say that because the toggle angle to the wheel looks slightly obtuse whereas mine was more perpendicular, if not slightly acute by comparison.
OK, one more question: Are you sure you have a Stanley cutting iron in there? Maybe it’s a non-compatible blade that has a slightly different location for the chip breaker to connect and that could be pushing the whole mechanism back a bit? Just look at the top of the blade for the manufacturer stamp. Or maybe it could be the chip breaker itself?
22 September 2016 at 7:01 pm #140747The one I replaced Was A Stanley and the other is a Veritas.
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