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I’m not doubting that:
The iron is flat with a slight hollow in the center.
It will not flex.
The stones, like you say are flat.
Could one of the water stones flex but the other ones does not?Seems to me that either flat or flex has to be causing the problem.
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
MikeIf you used for the wall cleat a 1 x 3 long enough to catch 3 studs, 2 screws at each stud, if each screw could hold 100 lb. that would 600 lb. Now if you only used 1 screw per stud that would still be 300 lb.
While many may say this is way overkill the financial cost is not that much more but a whole lot of piece of mind.
Then again you could go crazy and use a 1 x 10 or 1 x 12 and 4 or 5 screws per stud.O have one of the planes you are talking about from HF about 4 years ago. It is called a Windsors something or other plane.
Anyway, what I bought it for the purpose of converting to a scrub plane as per this Paul Sellers video.or go to youtube and search for “sellers scrub plane”.
Don’t know how well it would work as a #4, I suspect not very good. As a scrub plane it works good. Oh, my hand is too big for the handle, I suppose many Chinese hands are smaller than mine, so I rasped off most of the top horn.
Someone else on here has done the same thing as I and he liked it as a scrub plane too.
In case you are not up on what a scrub plane is for, it hogs off lots of wood real fast to either make a board much thinner or take the warp out of it. Then the ripples are removed with a #4.
Good luck.It appears to be in very good shape in overall appearances. Also looks like it should work like it was manufactured to. That said, I would leave it like it is, use it like it is. I’m not into Trophy Tools but functional tools but thin that is me. It is your marking gauge whatever you decide is the right decision.
And welcome to the habit of acquiring senior citizen tools put out to pasture before their due time.A few years back I bought a Stanley spokeshave that had a missing screw. Thought well that screw should be easy to replace. I couldn’t figure out what the proper thread size was. Took it to a good machine shop. They said it was a 8-32. An 8-32 will only go part way into the threaded hole.
Come to find out that on old Stanley tools like that. Probably make be Henry Ford and the auto industry got into mass production on a huge scale, companies like Stanley, Record and others probably had their own standard thread sizes. They didn’t care or worry about matching a standard thread size. So be careful about buying old tools that have a screw or nut missing. Exact fit replacements may be hard to find.
That said there is a Stanley 151 on ebay right now for under $10 plus $5 shipping. Here is the listing. It is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Bid ends in 6 days. Most of my oldie-but-goodie tools I got on ebay.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Stanley-No-151-Spokeshave/183222390028?hash=item2aa8e7cd0c:g:vIcAAOSwydpa9uozIn the US we have a place called Harbor Freight that carry what they call a Windsor Design (whatever that means) No. 33 bench plane for $14.99. Took one of those, Sharpie marked the 7 inch radius and ground away. Dipping it in water ever few seconds to keep it from overheating seems like it only took a few minutes. With sandpaper or even a course diamond stone that would probably take quite a while. This is not the run of the mill steel, it’s tool steel, very hard. A hacksaw probably would not even scratch it.
What you might do is find a trade school that has a machine shop and ask the instructor if you or he would grind the radius. I imagine most would do it for free. Lots of small, private, auto repair shops probably have grinders and would do it for almost nothing.Seems to me that it was around this time of the year, a year ago, may two, may be three that Paul posted a blog about the quality of these chisels. May be it is something Aldi carries only this time of the year, when we come in from all the outdoor activities and get back to woodworking.
When you flatten the back of a plane iron, lets say you know it is flat about 15mm up from the cutting edge because that is where the grinding/lapping/polishing was taking place. How is that portion going to become not-flat? If it is still flat why are you flattening what is already flat? That does not make sense to me.
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