Stanley 071 spares ? Veritas replacements
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5 November 2018 at 3:35 pm #553060
Hello All,
I managed to find a reasonably priced Stanley 071 – but the reason it was so reasonable is that the depth adjuster screw is not the original ,,, in fact it is a bit small, so it doesn’t hold the cutter that well. This is usually OK – as I use this one for getting down to the approximate depth, and I have a Veritas router (last years’s Christmas present) to get to the final depth / finish.
However, it would be nice if the Stanley worked a bit better ….
It seems impossible to find a replacement depth adjustment nut, so I was wondering whether I can get something made up, but I don’t know the screw thread specification of the original.
Alternatively, I thought that I once read somewhere that someone has produced/adapted a depth adjustment mechanism from a Veritas, that would actually fit into the Stanley … or I could try and buy a replacement depth adjustment and drill out the Stanley base and re-tap it, as I have metric taps and dies …
Or any other ideas?
Thanks for any help here
Several years ago I bought a Stanley 151 spokeshave that had a missing center tension screw. Thought it would be easy to just find and replace the screw. I couldn’t seem to get the correct screw thread size correct. The screw would start but then tightened up because the threads per inch was wrong. Took it to a big machine shop in town. They said it was an 8-32. Wrong. That is what I had already tried.
Then someone on here said the back in those days, probably before the standardization of thread sizes every manufacture had their own sizes. I suppose along came the automobile and Henry Ford and thread standardization.
If you can’t come up with the original screw you could re-drill and tap. For collectors this will devalue it but …
To check this out try putting standard screws/bolts in an old Stanley #4. I’ll bet no screw made today will work.
Good luck
MikeThere is some info here:
https://accidentalwoodworker.blogspot.com/2017/09/stanley-71-screw-sizes-update.html
but not conclusive. As @skeeball said the thread may not match anything made today.The 071 is the smaller Stanley router. The missing thumbscrew is the long-obsolete 9-28 size that Stanley was so fond of. 9-28 brass Bibb screws (for faucet washers) can be found in the plumbing supply departments in hardware stores.
Dave
- This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Dave Ring.
- This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Dave Ring.
6 November 2018 at 3:41 am #553071Go to your local hardware shop most the time they have A display with all the different types of threads i had a similar experience and luckily they had a machine screw that fit and I epoxied a knurled knob on it cut it to length and it works like a charm oh also I got it in brass
6 November 2018 at 12:17 pm #553074Fortunately/unfortunately I am living in France – so all screws/bolts here are likely to be metric … will need to wait until I get to Uk at some point …. or maybe I could epoxy a large brass washer to the top of the existing small bolt I have … Thanks for the idea.
Right you are, Selva!
I was looking at my 271 which had most of the “2” obliterated by a countersunk screw hole (for a sub base) and my aged eyes took it for a zero.
The depth stop screws on my 71 (or is it a 71 1/2?) are 1/4-28, which is a common size.
Dave
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