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I must be getting old and dim, because I feel like I should recognise these or identify without too much trouble. But I'm coming up donuts.

1. I might have broken the code on this one. 2&1/2...

The answer is .........

VHT brand high temperature engine enamel, SP119 Chevy Orange Red. The auto parts chain stores stock it.

A near perfect match, and as a bonus this stuff is the cats...

You were lucky.

I have a mate who used to be in border quarantine, his speciality live fish imports, but they all had a go at anything in front of them.

He tells me that the usual process is...

Next question.

Does anyone need them?

Free to a good home.

I bow before the Chief......

A couple of (I assume) plane parts found in the bottom of a box.

My first thought was that they might be from a boat anchor door stop Stanley 55, but it seems not. I then hoped for a dovetail or...

Indeed. It is free of major nasties, largely flat, and nice enough beech stained to look (a bit) like Rosewood timber.

The temporary career change will allow me time to reflect if I can really be...

You see some weird stuff done with tools.

Anyone has the power to use a shifting spanner as a hammer, or a 100 year old chisel to open a paint tin. But there are elite misusers out there.

I...

One piece of heresy to add. I haven't restored a saw for a while because sadly neither my hands nor my eyesight are up to sharpening these days, and not being able to finish the job kind of takes...

FWIW, in my relatively short journey I have tried pretty much all of the chemicals and baths and electricity.

Bottom line is that none of them give the finish you dream of. Most of them dull the...

Will also tell him of this one. Which is radically under priced. The handles are comfortably worth that much, but what use are handles without a plane?

I suspect he might pick the Stanley,...

Many thanks Chief. Way generous, too generous. Those kind of identification marks typically double or triple the retail value of a tool (though I would not accuse you of confusing retail value for...

Worth a try. I will go in tomorrow and see what he has laying around. At least from there I am reasonably confident it will have come off a farm or estate sale as a complete tool.

You see a surprising number of Disston Canada saws too. I believe That the Dissston Canada operation was established with the sole purpose of evading import duties into countries in the British...

Hi guys & gals. Some years since I have been here - arthritis in the hands killed my beginner level journey into hand woody learning and I kind of lost the will to play in the forum and disposed of...

Ta.

Maybe one day you'll be able to share your advice on items for sale that you have actually seen yourself at an auction you actually attended.

I'm sure that will be a treat for us all.

I for one was looking to buy one as an investment....

It's even easier than that. Epoxy degrades under heat. Use an air blow heat gun on the collar, moving constantly and trying to keep the heat on the metal and not the bench top as much as possible. ...

There are a few happy hunting grounds left.

For the last 5 years I have done an annual trip to either far east Victoria, or far West Vic / Eastern SA. Both regions relatively remote from large...

Went to an auction a couple of weeks ago, which had a predominantly metal engineering theme. There were some rogue lots though, including a pair of Stanley 51 shooting planes.

So I smelled...

Interested to see how these handles turned out with linseed oil. The caution is always that linseed oil can darken wood dramaticly. Either instantly, or over time with exposure to light.

Not...

Funnily enough, I have no problem with it either. Did it for a while until it became boring.

If somebody chooses to pay 3 to four times the price they could buy at if they did minimal research, then the cap fits.

Thanks Sherlock Holmes.

Delete ambitious buyers, insert criminally stupid buyers.

And I am very closely acquainted with sales history of planes on a well known internet auction site over the past five years.

You seem...

That one has come up somewhere recently, maybe even here.

Looks like one of the toothing variants for a stone saw

It never did VIC Rail much good though. Rail employees back in the day were notorious pilferers.

I bought a couple of large chests full of old handtools from a deceased estate a couple of years...

Interestingly, at least to me, I have one of those drill presses in the third photo waiting patiently in my to do list. Excellent condition, except for some light rust spotting on the bare metal.
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The Tertius marking is no real cause for concern. Quality gradings were a different beast 100 years ago.

Doesn't mean it was adjudged to be substandard. More likely that it was made by an...

I briefly considered offering you a pair of wood handles, but the rear tote handles are becoming a little bit hard to find.

Welcome to the obsession.

Here's a low tech easy one. Not massively asthetically pleasing, but effective. I use it when mailing edged tools to stop them eating their way out of the package.


Obtain a heavy duty cardboard...

Ian, If either of these is of use to you we can work something out by personal message that will be better value than $35.

The smaller of the two is Stanley Rule & Level, I'm pretty sure from a...

I am pleased to inform that a member has made an offer of a No 4 at a very generous price to our new Malaysian woodworker.

I hope in due course that we will hear of a successful completion.
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On the contrary.

Idan is looking at a current new Stanly piece of junk for $90 US.

From Australia, you are indeed looking at $60-70 Aust in postage. Which leaves a bit more than $49 AUD for...

I'm sure I am not alone.

People here do nice things for other people, and at times they have offered help to me. Not just sharing advice, but even actual giving of things like spare parts at...

Nice pick up, the Turner.

Certainly a brand that attempted to hit the best quality they could.

The earliest turners had EA Berg cutters, and the later Aus cutters are also very fine.

I...

I am going to stand up and take the bulk of the responsibility for the contentious part. Reading back my apparent tone in some posts is quite far from my intent at the time of writing.

For that,...

Idan.

For the price on the inferior modern Stanley you will be able to buy an older craftsman quality tool from Australia AND pay the shipping for less than you are considering spending on the new...

I think we've arrived at more or less the same point from different directions. I agree that the pre permit is probably not an answer here (which one phone call would likely confirm without wading...

This all got a bit confrontational, probably my fault through careless language. And I agree with a fair bit of that long summary.

However. These are facts.



If you bring anything into...

I've heard of folk who swear by camelia oil, because it doesn't mark even pale woods. However. The cost of the stuff is outrageous.

My shed is 500 metres from the ocean. Super rust zone.

I...

Well you can learn something new every day if you keep your wits about you. Department of Ag is the relevant authority, and work alongside customs at the border.

Here is the general version of...

A little more than those few words may be helpful.

Personally I would likely take my chances on any package NOT marked in red lettering Really Good Drugz getting through.

However.

Your...

The world according to Disston business practices, transformed by time into a universal truth.

Pardon the question, but I hae me doots about that assumption.

My understanding is that there are multiple circumstances under which saws may have been sold as WS. Only one of them being second...

It's not a customs issue, it is a quarantine issue under the Department of Ag.

As well as seeking advice or clarification, you can also apply for an import permit for mail order items in advance...

At times it is best to step back from the mystique building marketing that these guys use.

They have a way of implying that some of their processes and materials are a revolutionary advance.
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i'm not sure about that.

The earlier blue Marples plastics have well and truly survived the test of time.

Wood's emotionally nicer though.

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...

Well I wonder why I couldn't find that?