Thread: Tools for Dad

Originally Posted by IanW

For someone of our interests, that sure beats the heck out of a pair of socks or a pack of jocks!

How useful/useable do you find the 10 1/4? I've never had one in my hands & the pics I have seen didn't really show me how the moveable handles worked. P'raps you could post a little thread on yours, sometime?...

Hi Ian. Well I'm very embarrassed to say that in the 6 1/2 years I've had this plane, I've not restored nor repaired it - so I've never tried it. Initially I was too scared to attempt a repair in case I stuffed something - then other things got in the way .

I did a thread here A pressie from my son/ex-father-in-law : Hand Tools - UKworkshop.co.uk (I hope the pictures show for non-members of that site).

When my mum died (2009), I spent a part of my inheritance on a nice new Clifton No.4.5. It's my intention to have her name engraved on the side (a bit like the 10 year Clifton specials). After I've cleaned it up I intend to have my ex-FIL's name engraved on the Stanley 10.25 - that way my kids may have some interest in my old tools when I pass on .

Cheers, Vann.

Yep, pics showed for me, Vann, and they clearly show the rounded humps for the handles to rotate on. What I'm not clear on is how the locking mechanism works, so when you get that round tuit and do a restoration thread on the 10 1/2, you'll have at least one very interested spectator.

Six & a half years, you say? Pshaw! That's nothing man! I got things on my 'to do' list that have been there since before I had kids, & the eldest will very soon be 40.

Maybe I better either get on with them (or cross a few off the list..... )
Cheers,

Originally Posted by IanW

... What I'm not clear on is how the locking mechanism works...

The locking mechanism is rather crude - you simply loosen and tighten the brass nut in the top of each handle (same design of nut that holds the handle on any Bailey style plane. If you want the handles vertical (normal position on any Bailey) you slide the handle forward about 3/8" and the slot (see those photos) prevents the handles from tilting (you still need to tighten the brass nuts or the handles will slip back to where they can tilt).

Cheers, Vann.