Thread: CC & Lie Nielson.

Those tools look mighty familiar! It's down the slippery slope for you my friend .

Barry

Welcome to the precipice!

Buying a handplane is like eating peanuts .... you cannot eat just one peanut.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Yep--full membership into the slippery slope brigade.

Great gloat! Nice planes.

Take care, Mike

G'day Groggy, Derek & Mike W,
Yes, I reckon that I'm doomed, the slope just seems to be getting steeper. I guess that there's no turning round now? Fortunately, ( :confused: ) the Adelaide Timber & Working with Wood show is coming up in July so I'll be saving all my spare pennies for just one more darkside tool & then I'll be right! Gotta find some free shed time to do justice ( I hope ) to the planes.
Regards,
Barry.

Just one? Yeah right - good luck with that idea!!!!!

Originally Posted by stuart_lees

Just one? Yeah right - good luck with that idea!!!!!

Yeah Stuart, I know. Wishful thinking, but that's the Plan, which is always open to review at the time of purchase.
Thanks for the positve support mate.
Regards,
Barry.

Barry,

Thanks to your post I phoned Mik this morning and grabbed the last LA smoother, the Jacks had all gone by then. A greenie going your way, now all I've got to do is get it past the kitchen and to the shed. What's the line? that's right look at how much I saved today dear!

John.

G'day John,
Well done on scoring the last LN #4 smoothing plane. It was the last plane left after my little foray on Saturday. I scored the last LN #5 Jack plane then.
The rust on them is not too deep & should clean up with WD40, Rost Off etc.. I used a Webrax 1500 scouring pad with Rost Off & then Ubeaut EEE Ultrashine on the pad + a fair bit of Elbow Grease. Perhaps you could also apply hydrochloric acid onto the rusted area & work into the rust with steel wool. Wear good quality acid resistant gloves & safety glasses if you choose to go this way. Once you have removed the rust, thoroughly clean the body with cold water or an alkaline solution to neutralize the acid then apply a rust preventative. Apparently Camelia Oil is very good for this purpose.
As for getting the plane into the shed via the kitchen, can't help you there John. My shed is actually at the front of my house, so it's straight out of the ute & into the shed for me. What's that dearest, just going to open the doors to put the ute away. Be a sweetie & do a couple of cups of tea for us & we'll read the Satd'y paper together, whaddya reckon ? - doesn't always work. Always worth a try.
Regards,
Barry.

Originally Posted by Captain Chaos

... What's that dearest, just going to open the doors to put the ute away. Be a sweetie & do a couple of cups of tea for us & we'll read the Satd'y paper together, whaddya reckon ? ...

Smooth, real smooth

"We don't get to spend enough time together, darl"


Cheers..............Sean

Nice haul Barry, that specials table at MIK is well worth checking out. A couple of weeks back I scored some nice Rob Soreby paring chisels for $40 a piece. Previous week there were a bunch of titan chisels a school had traded in....$8 a piece.

Cheers Martin

[quote=Captain Chaos]G'day John,
The rust on them is not too deep & should clean up with WD40, Rost Off etc.. I used a Webrax 1500 scouring pad with Rost Off & then Ubeaut EEE Ultrashine on the pad + a fair bit of Elbow Grease. Perhaps you could also apply hydrochloric acid onto the rusted area & work into the rust with steel wool.

Thanks for the tips Barry, I ended up rubbing the body on a piece of old carpet to remove the powdery rust, and followed up with EEE and a scouring pad. There is no pitting and you would not even know the thing had any rust in the first place. The plane has had its first run and produced really nice shavings straight from the box.

I'm quite familiar with Hydrochloric Acid and wouldn't use it on anything metal, it certainly get a quick shine but does pit the surface especially if you don't adequately kill it. Have a look at electrolysis, works a treat cleans up rust without effort and there is no residual issues at all. It does not even damage the paintwork.

It is handy hearing what MIK have on that throw out table, having picked up a couple of the Titan paring chisels earlier it sounds as if good bargains can be had from time to time.

John.