Hey Keith, I'm a disabled Vietnam vet and would love to give that plane a home. I tried a similar repair on my Dad's old Stanley No. 5, but I tried brazing it and heated the sole up too much and it is warped now. Lesson learned. Love watching you rehab these old planes and giving them a new lease on life. Thanks for sharing what you do.
Looking good! I grew up on an Illinois farm and my is a good welder, he always said the to weld cast iron he needed to heat up the cast iron in an oven and weld it while it was hot. I never attempted it myself so I don't know if thats a myth or not. I thought your welds turned out pretty darn good and it didn't warp the plane. Its all good.
Good day sir can i use arc welding on the same crack you repair? Mine was the same as yours.has half of an inch crack of it.thank you.your video just gives me an idea on what to do.
Nice work! I think you just busted another myth. A while back I had looked for info on welding a plane. Almost every video on RU-vid said it's not possible and it can only be brazed. It didn't stop me from trying. I used a crappy stick welder and I'm not very good. It was horrible but at least when I was done I thought I failed at something that was not possible. Guess I just failed.
Cast iron is fairly brittle. This property works against you when you apply welding heat to a concentrated area. That area expands (and rapidly cools when the heat dissipates into conductive material), causes tension in the surrounding cooler material, and can cause fractures. Professional welders preheat brittle parts in a kiln before joining or filling them to reduce temperature differentials, slow the cooling of the joint, and help gasses escape the metal. Some metals like Ni-resist used in turbine wheels are super hard, super brittle, and can't be welded partially because it's too difficult to make filler wire out of them.
I find these videos to be a great source of information about this subject. Maybe I missed it, but I've never seen anything on replacement of the washer (or whatever it's called) on the lateral adjustment lever. I purchased an old number 5 in summer of 2017 for $15 and that's the only piece missing. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi, question, I have a couple of plane bottoms, a Stanley 5 and 6. I've been getting into selling on eBay and I'd like to get spare parts. On eBay, the parts sell more then a plane. I really just want to make them work again.
Hello, Keith. I'm also a Keith, and also a veteran. I weld for a living, and occasionally repair cast iron, but I'm always looking for information/techniques, as it's always hit or miss with cast iron. What alloy wire were you using to repair the cracks and fill the hanging hole? Thank you for your service.
this is probably wrong comment in the wrong place but it is about bench planes are there any stanley planes or other usa planes that used iron bed and aluminium frog and lever cap? i just bought on a fle market russian made monster like that it is 14 inches long, 3 and 1/4 inched wideand it is a monster comparing to few no4 i already had i wanted something bigger for work but i am still unsure about this aluminium frog and lever cap what was the failure point in stanley aluminium planes?
thanks i will put it to work, the resoults will show if it was a good choice to buy it it might have beed some kind of cast iron shortage cheap russian market gismo or someone actualy designed it this way. either way it has never been used before , so the honor of trubbleshooting it falls on me thanks for your reply
hi! great video as always, your channel is i'm all up to. here's the thing, i live in Indonesia and i got millers falls plane which is quite impossible to have it here. after i spent forever in oldtoolheaven.com its maybe around no.10. type 4 because the frog is painted black. and when i bought it, the cutting iron, cap iron, and lever cap is missing, but i buy it anyway. my question is, i wonder if maybe you have the same plane or at least the same sizing plane,and send me a pic of that parts with the measurement and dimension, so i can make my 'DIY' lever cap and cap iron. so i can give this plane a second chance. thanks before, any help would be very appreciated
