Dr.Al
Old Oak
These jobs have been on my list for a while, ever since @rxh did the same sort of thing. At the time of making this, I couldn't find his post (thanks AndyT) for reference, so I just worked out my own way of doing it. Looking back now, he left the original casting unmodified, but I went with an alternative approach.
The first modification is a height adjuster for my Record #722. This is what it initially looked like after dismantling:
It's got two 6 mm diameter holes spaced 20 mm apart. The cutter (which has a 5.6 mm shank) can go in either hole and the same clamp screw holds it in place.
The first job was to drill and tap an M5 hole, halfway in between the two cutter holes:
I didn't let the tap go all the way in. That way I could tighten a bit of M5 threaded rod into the hole without it getting in the way of the clamp screw.
M5 has a 0.8 mm pitch, which is fairly close to the (32 TPI if memory serves me correctly) thread on my Veritas router plane.
With the threaded rod fitted, I could make two simple pieces, one of of stainless steel and one out of brass:
Fitted (with the cutter in what I would consider to be the normal position):
and in the other position:
While I was at it, I also made this, again out of stainless steel and brass:
That's a depth stop (based very closely on the Veritas design) for my Stanley #71:
The first modification is a height adjuster for my Record #722. This is what it initially looked like after dismantling:
It's got two 6 mm diameter holes spaced 20 mm apart. The cutter (which has a 5.6 mm shank) can go in either hole and the same clamp screw holds it in place.
The first job was to drill and tap an M5 hole, halfway in between the two cutter holes:
I didn't let the tap go all the way in. That way I could tighten a bit of M5 threaded rod into the hole without it getting in the way of the clamp screw.
M5 has a 0.8 mm pitch, which is fairly close to the (32 TPI if memory serves me correctly) thread on my Veritas router plane.
With the threaded rod fitted, I could make two simple pieces, one of of stainless steel and one out of brass:
Fitted (with the cutter in what I would consider to be the normal position):
and in the other position:
While I was at it, I also made this, again out of stainless steel and brass:
That's a depth stop (based very closely on the Veritas design) for my Stanley #71:
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