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I removed all corrosion etc as usual. Then flaking parts of the metal electroplating removed using fine grade wet/dry. WD40 degreaser, followed by two coats of hammerite smooth silver. Purists may be horrified by this, but this plane is never going to be a museum piece. The paint reduces...

Renovation finished. Plane being fitted to box under construction. There is a crack in the handle. I fixed it by rubbing in a small amount of wood glue and letting it dry, repeating a few times. Box construction completed. Awaits choice of wood finish. I am thinking of a mid/dark...

I am in no doubt that I have re-invented the wheel for the bajillionth time. But if you're a newbie like me, you may find this useful. A piece of 20mm plastic tubing slit down the side, tied on with string. At the moment I store my saws hanging from hooks and those without keepers get one of...

Better image of the "business end". ( scale in inches ). Mystery is solved - I bought a set of Whitworth spanners and the nut is a perfect fit for the 1/4W. Renovation now complete. Works beautifully. Posed next to the plastic mitre box ( ugh! ) it will replace. Is this modern progress?

Thanks for the above folks. @Vann - thanks for that. Until recently I never got my head around all the different systems. A lifetime ago I thought my metalwork teacher meant to write "bolt" when he wrote "dolt". @J-G I am indeed talking about the end nut. Tomorrow I will get a photo. The two...

Not my greatest piece of photography, but the large thread is indeed square section. The bottom of the right-hand bolt shows that the thread is cut for the nut more like a standard thread. Size of nuts compared to a 9/16 spanner.

I have recently acquired a Marples mitre jig, in the original emerald green paint. I'm in the process of cleaning it up so I can use it. ( I will be keeping the original paintwork because it has character ). The threaded rods that move the jaws have unusual size nuts. Now obviously they...

In the R[redacted]n Federation, data redacts you!

If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving is not for you.

I have a repointing job coming up. Thanks for the tip. Now, can anyone think of a recycle for the old mortar scrapings?

I have this disease in its early stages. Now, before stuff gets thrown away in our house I have to check it out first. I don't see broken rubbish - I see free raw materials for my (fairly new) tinkering hobby. Currently, a dining fork with misaligned tines has been banished from the kitchen by...

The scene - a bar in a singles club for over 30's. A thirty-something lonely lady meets a charming gent and they share a few drinks. He invites her home for dinner which he promises to cook himself. After a splendid meal and some choice wine they retire to the bedroom. As she enters she...

When your cat brings in a mouse and offers it to you it is not a present, it's a warning!

Following on from cozzer..... A bloke goes to the red light district and approaches a lady of the night. "How about it handsome?", she leers. "Sure, but I've only got a tenner", he lies. "Huh", she snorts with amusement. "You won't get much for a tenner round here" and she struts off. The...

At the start of the lunchbreak, a Russian judge walked through the door at the back of his courtroom, into the service corridor reserved for people of his exalted status. As he did so he chuckled to himself. "What's so funny?" his fellow judge asked, having also just started his lunch recess...

All I got offered was a "Concord lanyard". No sign of the blonde in the chainmail bikini. That price could be the weekly fuel running costs.......

On Monday at about 1pm a man walked into a pet shop, bought a tortoise and walked out. On Tuesday at about the same time, he did the same thing. On Wednesday at around 1pm he walked in and said to the shop assistant " I'll have another one of those meat pies please, but not so crunchy this time".

I didn't explain myself properly at the beginning. This is a "thank you" for some enormous help, so I will invest whatever time it takes to produce the best work I can. I offered to recondition a plane, and this was the item provided. The above shows the upper metalwork after grot and loose...

A man went into a pub up North in a coal-mining area. He went up to the bar and ordered a pint. As he was speaking to the barman he noticed a big man in a group by the window. The top of big man's head was flat and he had a cauliflower ear. The man at the bar laughed and pointed out flat-head...

Eh? I need to punctuate that correctly. I don't fancy being labelled an "old tool". Thanks for the advice everyone. Droogs - I had forgotten the point re leaving the frog attached. Extra thanks. I have a 1954 copy of "Planecraft", which I am using to help me stumble along the path from...