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19th November 2017, 06:01 PM #1Senior Member
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Very Rare Plane. Maybe Not In A Particularly Good Way. Seeking Information
Here's an interesting little fella I picked up in a box of assorted rust that I bought for some of the other stuff in there. So it's essentially cost me nothing.
Try as I might, I can find out NOTHING about this one, even with the extensive efforts of Mr Google.
So I guess that makes it rare. (If not necessarily precious.) Never recorded on the internet, no record of any sales. Properly rare, not just Ebay rare.
All of the signs say it's a cheap and cheerful copy of a Stanley 4. Slightly heavier and the casting is noticeably a little thicker in places.
So we have a BeeDee number 4, with a cutter also marked BEEDEE. Little stamp on the top of the tote informs us it is for export. From where, and to where, I here you ask. Interesting point of difference is that the almost certainly original tote is a two screw job, which I haven't seen on any No 4 clone before.
Anyone who can provide more information on this plane wins my gratitude, but sadly no cash reward.
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19th November 2017, 07:26 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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Google says there was an Indian Company called Beedee tools.
See here https://www.zaubacorp.com/company/BE...L1978PTC009166
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19th November 2017, 08:02 PM #3Senior Member
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19th November 2017, 08:07 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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I searched for BEEDEE tools, but it wasn't in the first page of results!
Regards, Jeff
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20th November 2017, 02:51 AM #5
They began 07 August 1978, the plane, I believe, is older than that.
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
Mark Twain
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20th November 2017, 06:32 AM #6
Indian stuff always looks way older than it really is. Rough castings, poor finish, thick gauge stock, etc.
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20th November 2017, 08:33 AM #7
GV, I reckon it's worth spending a little time with it to see if it has any potential. All the basics are there, & looks like a brass adjuster wheel, not plastic. It's got a pressed yoke, but that's not fatal. These planes tend to be very hit & miss (mostly miss), but I once picked up an India-made #4 that was in terminal condition (looked like it had been taken to with a sledge-hammer by some very frustrated user!) but it had an extremely good blade, thick & tough. I sold it with a (much better) #4 and was sorry I had, after....
Cheers,IW
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20th November 2017, 12:34 PM #8Senior Member
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That's more or less the plan. I'll clean it up and ready it for work. If it's a goer I will give it to a young bloke I know who can use it.
If it's a dog I have an acquaintance who is a compulsive hoarder, and always talks about cleaning up the planes he has acquired (somewhere between 50 and 100 at last count) and putting them on display, but never does. I'll pretty it up a bit more and give it to him in the hope he'll let me have some access to his stash.
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