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Woodie chipbreaker

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My current refurb project of an old try plane is making progress but I've discovered that the chipbreaker will need a considerable amount of work to bring it up to snuff:

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It's well out of square at both ends, but more worryingly, the threaded bolt is now very loose in the brass insert. I could fix the actual chipbreaker itself but the bolt/thread combo is beyond my measly metal bashing capabilities. Does anyone have a 2.5" (64mm) wide woodie chipbraker which is surplus to requirements? TIA - Rob

Edit - problem fixed, no need for a replacement
 
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Lons said:
How did you fix it Rob?

I thought I had one but the widest I have is 2 1/4"
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I had a delve into my taps tin and found I had an M10 tap so I drilled out (8.4mm drill) the old smaller thread in the cap iron (MikeG) and made a larger M10 metric thread. I also found in my bolts box a round head M10 Allen bolt so the whole thing is now much firmer:

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One side of the cap iron (MikeG😁) was also about 2-3mm wider than the cutter (arrowed) and both ends were a long way off square, so 20 minutes work with a large bastard file brought everything tickety boo. Still a bit of shaping to do at the blade end followed by some final cleaning up with emery cloth etc - Rob
 
Are you using the iron + cap iron that came with it or your alternative one?
 
AndyP said:
........Should be plane sailing form now on.
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Well, that would certainly be an unusual thing to do, and I'm wondering where the mast would go. The obvious spot is taken up with bits of steel.
 
AndyT said:
Are you using the iron + cap iron that came with it or your alternative one?
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The iron is a replacement that I had lurking at the bottom of tool box somewhere and the cap iron is the original that I spent some time on yesterday - Rob
 
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