Thread: Stanley No.5. What era?

The plane has quite a lot of greasy gunk around it as you can see in this pic. The good side is that everything has come apart very easily. The frog screws were tight and I needed a more powerful screwdriver to persuade them to release. Other than that it has been good so far.

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There is still grease around the logo on the lever cap, but the textured background mentioned in the links is visible.

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When I get a moment, I will hit these bits with degreaser. I think this plane will come up fairly well for a tool that is only just shy of 100 years old, if 1925 is correct.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

The plane has quite a lot of greasy gunk around it as you can see in this pic. The good side is that everything has come apart very easily. The frog screws were tight and I needed a more powerful screwdriver to persuade them to release. Other than that it has been good so far.

P1090236.jpg

There is still grease around the logo on the lever cap, but the textured background mentioned in the links is visible.

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When I get a moment, I will hit these bits with degreaser. I think this plane will come up fairly well for a tool that is only just shy of 100 years old, if 1925 is correct.

Regards
Paul

Paul,

What’s going on , what happened too the famous Ute back drop for all your pictures,?

Or is that just for the Flat believers only(Saws [emoji6]).

Cheers Matt.

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

I think this plane will come up fairly well for a tool that is only just shy of 100 years old, if 1925 is correct.

Nice. You will need to start saving your pennies for a bottle of port for its one hundredth birthday.
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Oh! Sounds expensive. I might wait for some bad weather...... "Any port in a storm"

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

Oh! Sounds expensive.

But its one hundredth birthday is not a time for penny pinching!

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Paul,

What’s going on , what happened too the famous Ute back drop for all your pictures,?

Or is that just for the Flat believers only(Saws [emoji6]).

Cheers Matt.

Matt

It was there. Edited out for a close up shot. Sometimes I use the tray as a bench for display, but it got to 39.7°C yesterday and the checker plate was too hot to touch!

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

..... it got to 39.7°C yesterday and the checker plate was too hot to touch! ....

Yairs, been a bit less than ideal in my shed the last few days - we were a little 'cooler' down here at only 38, but the humidity probably more than made up for the difference! It's the sort of weather that makes you break out in a sweat just thinking about doing anything other than stand in front of a fan.

The discomfort level finally provoked me into mounting my big shed fan on a swing-arm instead of its fixed position on the wall, so I could direct it wherever I was working - it is something I've been getting around to for about 10 years. Anyway, I started in the cool of the morning, expecting the job to take no more than an hour, but it managed to spin out to more than 2 hours which included turning the shed upside down looking for one of the bolts that attach the fan cage to its wall-mounting bracket, becoming increasingly frustrated & heat-stressed. I eventually found it, stuck to the motor housing - my heat-fogged brain forgot about the permanent magnets in the motor. It can clutch a small bolt quite firmly!

Today promises to be another stinker, but at least I can point my fan where I want now...

Cheers,

Originally Posted by IanW

Yairs, been a bit less than ideal in my shed the last few days - we were a little 'cooler' down here at only 38, but the humidity probably more than made up for the difference! It's the sort of weather that makes you break out in a sweat just thinking about doing anything other than stand in front of a fan.

The discomfort level finally provoked me into mounting my big shed fan on a swing-arm instead of its fixed position on the wall, so I could direct it wherever I was working - it is something I've been getting around to for about 10 years. Anyway, I started in the cool of the morning, expecting the job to take no more than an hour, but it managed to spin out to more than 2 hours which included turning the shed upside down looking for one of the bolts that attach the fan cage to its wall-mounting bracket, becoming increasingly frustrated & heat-stressed. I eventually found it, stuck to the motor housing - my heat-fogged brain forgot about the permanent magnets in the motor. It can clutch a small bolt quite firmly!

Today promises to be another stinker, but at least I can point my fan where I want now...

Cheers,

Ian

I think the humidity you experience in your neck of the woods would more than counteract the lower temperatures.

On the subject of fans, I have one in my shed that I set up a few years ago. Last year I did not use it once and I don't really know why because there was ample justification with the weather. Yesterday I was up early and outside just after 0530Hrs in an attempt to get some welding done on a steel frame before the heat of the day set in. It was > 30°C by 0830hrs and I was starting to melt. I went inside to cool down for a while and then returned to the shed and decided to turn on the fan. I had forgotten how powerful it was. Even with the bench grinder partially obscuring the wind flow it was still good.

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Perhaps you and I should start a fan club.

Regards
Paul