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Great job Eddy. These wonderful tools surely deserve the investment in time and effort to restore them.
I hope you don’t might me adding my own recent restoration efforts on a Stanley #6 to this thread, rather than starting yet another…
wow Martin you’ve certainly done that justice what rust remover did you use ive starting looking for the rusty ones now because they are always cheap and clean up so well
Thanks Eddy. I think I used white spirit and a scouring pad followed by wet’n’dry on a marble slab to flatten out. Might need to be wary of white spirit lifting the enamel paint if it’s flaking though. I’ve also found coca-cola works pretty well on rust. Reading the ingredients it contains phosphoric acid, which kind of makes me glad I never let it anywhere near my teeth.
The rusty tools are often good value, but you do need to watch out for heavy pitting on the back of the blade – that’s hard work to get around.
i only use hammerite rust remover gel now unti i find something better
Nice work! Its great to see people restoring old planes, it never gets old 🙂
I just cleaned up a type 11 bailey #4 as well. I got it off of craigslist and well I looked at in the rain! Never look at something in the rain, it was much worse when I got it home and could take a closer look at it. It took forever to flatten the frog. The base was so off I could feel it with my fingers.
Thankfully a machinist friend was able to grind the base flat, it was .02 off. Works as well as my lie nielsen now .001 to .002 shavings with a new hock iron and cap iron. 20 for the plane and 58 for the new irons. Quite happy!