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In the U.S., they're called "plow bolts." I don't know if they come that small here. My hardware store used to carry them, but not sure if they still do. Can you counterbore the stock into which you're placing them, so you can use a conventional coach (carriage in the U.S.) bolt or even a...

You could get them without the return spring. Required two hands, one to hold the collar to keep the bit in the screw; but safer, as the shaft didn't pop out on its own. I don't use the screwdrivers much anymore, but I still use the related Yankee push drill a lot. Just the thing for small...

It's a somewhat awkward retaining method, but Lee Valley of Canada replicated it in their small plough plane; and their engineers don't hesitate to re-engineer designs for maximum utility, so they must have concluded that it has its benefits.

No experience with the 044, but, if you find the iron is lifting, try lightly tightening the lever cap screw (the top one), just enough to "place" the iron, then the side screw just enough to align the iron, then a little more on the lever cap screw before adjusting the iron for exposure (how...

How necessary is that exact switch design? The factory switch on my long-since discontinued Makita jobsite saw failed, and I wound up putting a simple toggle switch in an electrical box. It's not ideal - not as easy to turn off in a crisis - but crisis level events are less likely on a band...

interesting plane. They wanted to make sure you could reach the adjuster!

In the early part of the 20th century, in the U.S. at least, the term for a timber propped up to serve as a firm place against which to lever was an "old man." For instance, if you were using a ratchet drill* to bore a large hole, you needed something against which the ratchet could bear. Thus...

In my experience, horned planes are often shaped for right or left handed use, specifically. The horn on the plane to the left (brown) looks like it was shaped to be held by the left hand (and, thus, for use right handed). I found an ECE (German) plane once at a shop, and was very interested...

Thin, high-grade plywood (sold as "craft" plywood here in the U.S.), with thick (3/16"/5mm or so) leather glued to it, and the plywood then contact-cemented to the jaws.