woodbloke
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One of the Woodkateers :wink: asked me last Sunday if I could do something with a rather dilapidated Stanley No67 'shave. The handles were in a very bad state, the screw holes in the body to receive them had been stripped out and enlarged long ago, so generally a 'non-runner' as the first pic shows:
After a lot of head scratching and a bit of ](*,) to boot I remembered that I had some 6mm brass inserts (available from Axminster) that might to the trick if they were cut down and glued in place:
The holes in the body casting were then drilled out so that the inserts were a sliding fit. These were then glued in place with the proper slow setting Araldite, after first degreasing with meths. Once the epoxy has set it's pretty nigh unshiftable. I made some new handles from some oddments of elm, having first bought some suitable ferules from PFT and again used some epoxy to fix some little bits of 6mm studding in the end. Result is a useable tool as can be seen in the last pic, big woodie in the background:
Reasonable job for a few hours work in the shop - Rob
After a lot of head scratching and a bit of ](*,) to boot I remembered that I had some 6mm brass inserts (available from Axminster) that might to the trick if they were cut down and glued in place:
The holes in the body casting were then drilled out so that the inserts were a sliding fit. These were then glued in place with the proper slow setting Araldite, after first degreasing with meths. Once the epoxy has set it's pretty nigh unshiftable. I made some new handles from some oddments of elm, having first bought some suitable ferules from PFT and again used some epoxy to fix some little bits of 6mm studding in the end. Result is a useable tool as can be seen in the last pic, big woodie in the background:
Reasonable job for a few hours work in the shop - Rob
