Won a plane on E-Bay

On Mon, 3 May 2004 18:28:04 -0700, "Paul O." <[email protected]>
brought forth from the murky depths:

>Well Yee-Haw, I think. Bid on a Stanley #4 and won. It looks dirty, but
>thats one reason I decided to bid on it hoping no one else would want it.
>Well NOBODY else bid on it, so that may be telling me something. Got it for
>$16.49 incl. shipping. If nothin else it should be good for a part or two
>eh? Well, will see how it turns out.

Congrats, Paul. Now you can learn how to tune up a handplane
and know it inside and out. Be sure to try some shavings before
doing that so you can see just how good a tune-up can be on
a piece of li'l arn.


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"Paul O." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well Yee-Haw, I think. Bid on a Stanley #4 and won. ...
> Well, will see how it turns out.
Anyone notice the pitch of that slope rising?
Off ya go
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Happy shavings,
Gary

Yeah that will be a bit of work, lot of attention to detail
will go into it. Personaly I love doing that kind of work.
wd-40, fine steel wool, a wooden handled small brass brush,
paint stripper, boat varnish, brush and thinner, and some
scary sharp setup will do it all. At least never having restored
a plane, that's what I would come up with... I suggest being
careful with the japaning concerning the paint stripper if you
use it.

I've restored a couple that looked a lot worse than that, and they come out
fine. Remove the heavy rust w/ electrolosys, flatten the soul and the
mating surfaces of the frog on a sanding belt glued to piece of glass, then
polish the soul and sides on fine sanding belts-on-glass, then do the rest
of the fine tuning. I leave the handles and top of the souls in pretty
rough shape.

The final trick is to put one of today's quality irons (e.g. Hock) and chip
breakers (Clifton, Hock) on the restored plane. In my book, they make a
HUGE difference.

-JBB

>"AArDvarK" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:NSElc.11765$k24.422@fed1read01...
>>
>> > Well Yee-Haw, I think. Bid on a Stanley #4 and won. It looks dirty, but
>> > thats one reason I decided to bid on it hoping no one else would want
>>it.

>> eh? Well, will see how it turns out.

with no pictures of the sole it's hard to say how much work you're in
for. if as the seller says it's all in good shape I'd say you got a
decent deal, and after a couple of hours of work you'll have a fine
user.

good luck...

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
>
> "AArDvarK" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:NSElc.11765$k24.422@fed1read01...
> >
> > > Well Yee-Haw, I think. Bid on a Stanley #4 and won. It looks dirty, but
> > > thats one reason I decided to bid on it hoping no one else would want
> it.
> > > Well NOBODY else bid on it, so that may be telling me something. Got it
> for
> > > $16.49 incl. shipping. If nothin else it should be good for a part or
> two
> > > eh? Well, will see how it turns out.
> >
> > So give the number so we can gander at it, ay?
> > Alex
> >
> > The # is 3289490077. As this is my first plane, it should be a learning
> experience.
>
For cleaning it up do a search on Electrolytic Rust Removal.
Shoot me an email offline if you have any questions about it.

> Well Yee-Haw, I think. Bid on a Stanley #4 and won. It looks dirty, but
> thats one reason I decided to bid on it hoping no one else would want it.
> Well NOBODY else bid on it, so that may be telling me something. Got it for
> $16.49 incl. shipping. If nothin else it should be good for a part or two
> eh? Well, will see how it turns out.

So give the number so we can gander at it, ay?
Alex

> For cleaning it up do a search on Electrolytic Rust Removal.
> Shoot me an email offline if you have any questions about it.

I just did that search, looks really fun! You could do all kinds of
rust removal that way, now that I have got to try. There is a local
antique-slash-junk shop with all kinds of useable rusty things.

Thanks for that info,

Alex

"AArDvarK" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:NSElc.11765$k24.422@fed1read01...
>
> > Well Yee-Haw, I think. Bid on a Stanley #4 and won. It looks dirty, but
> > thats one reason I decided to bid on it hoping no one else would want
it.
> > Well NOBODY else bid on it, so that may be telling me something. Got it
for
> > $16.49 incl. shipping. If nothin else it should be good for a part or
two
> > eh? Well, will see how it turns out.
>
> So give the number so we can gander at it, ay?
> Alex
>
> The # is 3289490077. As this is my first plane, it should be a learning
experience.
--
Paul O.
[email protected]

"AArDvarK" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:5_Nlc.11801$k24.8719@fed1read01...
>
> Yeah that will be a bit of work, lot of attention to detail
> will go into it. Personaly I love doing that kind of work.
> wd-40, fine steel wool, a wooden handled small brass brush,
> paint stripper, boat varnish, brush and thinner, and some
> scary sharp setup will do it all. At least never having restored
> a plane, that's what I would come up with... I suggest being
> careful with the japaning concerning the paint stripper if you
> use it.
>
> Depending on how much rust is actually there, may play with the electro,
whatcha call it, certainely can't spell it, and see what that does.
--
Paul O.
[email protected]

> > > So give the number so we can gander at it, ay?
> > > Alex
> > >
> > > The # is 3289490077. As this is my first plane, it should be a
learning
> > experience.
> >
> For cleaning it up do a search on Electrolytic Rust Removal.
> Shoot me an email offline if you have any questions about it.

Yeh that's it, couldn't spell it in the other post. Think I saw an article
on it in a recent Shop Notes of mine. Have to look back thru.
--
Paul O.
[email protected]