Category Archives: Restoration

Glueing broken plane tote

Posted on 08/06/2013 by John

One of the wooden planes in my recent eBay purchase was broken in transit, with a clean break in the tote: As with last time I glued a tote I’ve used weatherproof glue so I don’t need to worry about … Continue reading →

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Derusting planes – Part 4

Posted on 04/06/2013 by John

I’ve finished derusting my metal bodied planes for now, so while the blades and chip breakers from my wooden bodied planes were soaking in the derusting fluid I reassembled the metal ones.

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Derusting planes – Part 3

Posted on 29/05/2013 by John

It’s been a while since I last posted on this subject and I’ve now built a cylindrical derusting tank from soil pipe that is good for dipping longer planes. I managed to separate the blade and chip breaker a while … Continue reading →

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Further adventures in derusting

Posted on 29/05/2013 by John

Following on from my previous post. You may have noticed some other bits amongst the plane and axe parts in the photo below: These are part of my Stanley 905 breast drill, which I’ve been meaning to clean up for … Continue reading →

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Adventures in derusting

Posted on 29/05/2013 by John

Yesterday I built a cylindrical derusting tank from soil pipe. It works well for longer tools, like the tin snips I bought at a car boot sale in April

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Aggravated plastic butchery

Posted on 28/05/2013 by John

I’ve been wanting a way of derusting long tools and plane bodies for a while. I couldn’t find a suitable trough, but I read somewhere about using plastic pipe, blocked at one end. Today I went to a local builders … Continue reading →

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Heeere’s Johnny!

Posted on 12/05/2013 by John

(Apologies for the gratuitous movie quote 🙂 ) When I tidied out the shed last year I found some long handled shears and an axe which presumably belonged to the previous owner. I’d just got my Tormek, so I figured … Continue reading →

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Fixing my hand pillar drill – Part 2

Posted on 11/05/2013 by John

Following on from Part 1. I needed three small compression springs to replace the missing ones from the chuck. The holes in the chuck jaws are just over 4mm in diameter, but I wasn’t sure how long or springy the … Continue reading →

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Fixing my hand pillar drill – Part 1

Posted on 05/05/2013 by John

I bought a hand powered pillar drill at a car boot sale for £4 earlier today. The chuck was stuck fully closed and I couldn’t figure out how (or indeed if) the advance mechanism worked, but I figured it would … Continue reading →

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Car booty – 05/05/2013

Posted on 05/05/2013 by John

Today we were planning to go to the Sayers Common car boot sale, which doesn’t open for buyers until 10am. By some miraculous accident we were ready to go long before that, so we decided that rather than killing an … Continue reading →

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