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Hi All,

+1 for Coventry Grinders, great service!

Martin

Put the postcodes into Google Maps to see the address locations.

Should show which is correct?

Martin

I actually went to school with a Stephen Howard Ian Thompson!

what were his parents thinking of….

Martin

Deleted my album

Martin

Hi All,

We often put heavier or too delicate to ship items on FaceBook MarketPlace with overall minimal fuss.

Lately we have been getting a few of these:

Sorry, now all gone!

Martin

Rik, no problem, you know where we are?

Oily Rag, will check the PM

martin

Nobody want one?

Martin

Many thanks to all for that interesting information.

i am happy to let 4 of these go to forum members if anyone would like one, I’ll do the postage also!

first come first served!

Cheers, Martin

Dave,

interesting advert!

what might be the tapping drill size for a special thread like these?

cheers, Martin

Hi All,

Just found about 10 of these taps wrapped in greased paper; I have not seen this WF type before?

Guessing that it is Whitworth Fine; 40 tpi gives one thou per revolution so is it a micrometer thread? Is the .2 1/5 of an inch?

Cheers, Martin

Nigel,

I take your point about a brittle weld, (especially with my welding skills!)

Some of the larger cutters for the Stanley No:71 Larger hand routers have one blade with a detachable tip to make honing easier.

The standard cutters for 271 & 722 planes are just bent (as is the original cutter for this one)

I think I will take a look at re purposing an Allen key as my first thought, thanks for that idea guys!

Will keep you updated as I progress.

Cheers, Martin

Hi All,

I recently came across this rather unusual small cast iron hand router plane with 4 blade positions; I suspect that this is user made and have never seen one before. No makers marks anywhere on it.

I think it is rather a nice take on the Stanley 271 and Record 722 models.

I decided to have a go at making one (or more!) using my limited Fusion 3D skills. It turned out to be a bit harder than I had at first imagined but I learnt a lot on the way. Particularly use of the Align and Combine tools.

I still have a lot of trouble getting the correct build sequence in the timeline.

Here are the first two prints after several aborted prototypes:

Just finished a run of 8 sets of brass bushes to be a tight fit in the base; scored the sides with a Dremel to help key the Loctite fixing.

Still pondering the best way to make the cutters;

Should I A: make the cutter tips separately and weld them to a M steel shank?

or

B: make the whole cutter out of tool steel rod and "forge" the end and bend?

Suggestions welcome!

Cheers Martin

Ian,

Well done, a nice useful item!

I am in the middle of copying a cast iron small rebate plane in F360 and have just done the prototype print and looking good.

We do quite a few small plane parts which sell very well on our EBay site.

heers, Martin

Like this:

Hi All,

supposedly I just bought the “last one” from the same seller as Michael. Still listed as last one again though…

We often get over £12 for these?

Cheers, Martin

Darren,
PM sent

Martin

Michael,

Thanks for the useful link which seems to make it 19th Century which is nice!

I had no idea that muskets contained such powerful springs!

Cheers, Martin

Ah! That throws up a lot of stuff! What exactly doe sit do please?

Martin

Hi All,

This was in the drawer of an old chest full of tools bought lately and just got around to. I think that it is gun related so hopefully someone can enlighten me?

Cheers Martin

I do remember years ago when we had a car sales setup in Holland Park Mews that we had a Ferrari1 308 with a duff door handle. It was over £100 from Maranello Concessionaires at Ethan.

we found out it was identical to the one on a Fiat X19, cost about £15 if I recall correctly!

cheers Martin