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Help with a mortise gage
Skip in Falls Church
>Hi,
I have a mortising gage that looks like a Stanley #77. The pins for both the marking and mortising are worn down to nothing. I took the thing apart - but I don't see how the pins come out unless they are soldered in. I hate to take a torch to the brass on simple speculation. Does anyone know how to to get the darn little pins out? Provided I can get them out, what would be a suitable replacement?
Thanks,
Skip
Re: Help with a mortise gage *LINK*
John in West TN
>Skip, there might be something on this page, the guy has a lot of info on Stanley gages.
Cheers,
John
http://www.brendlers.net/oldtools/
Re: Help with a mortise gage
Skip in Falls Church
>Well, it looks like the pins are a friction fit All 3 of the pins were worn down to almost nothing. I took the piece with the longest remaining pin and put it in a small vise, put a small torch on it and, after a minute the pin pulled right out.
That was the bait for the trap, I figured things would go really quickly. There was not enough of either of the other two pins left to get a grip on - so I ended up drilling them out. Of course the bit wandered off the steel into the brass. Anyway, I ended up substituting some nails for the old pins and soldered them back in. It ain't pretty - put is does work. :)
Skip