Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Infill fell out!
Jim Cosgrove - No. Virginia
>I have a beautiful English infill shoulder plane. The only problem is that the wooden infill front part fell out! The loose infill is in mint condition and only needs to be glued back in. Would hide glue work? I'm rather leary of using something like epoxy. What would have been used originally? What would you use?
Shop glue
jim_reed@marietta
>I'll bet the fit is so close that very little glue is needed to hold it in place. I would be tempted to use the shop glue (brown tint) that I use for everything else wooden. Don't know what they used originally, but it was probably hide. Good luck.
Re: Infill fell out!
Ben Knebel
>When we build our planes we use a polyeurtethane glue--Gorrilla glue or the like.
Seems to work best with tropical hardwoods which is likely what you infill is.
Regards
Ben
www.shepherdtool.com
Re: Infill fell out!
William R. Duffield on the Cohansey
>Stephen M. Thomas recommends Devcon Flexame 80 liquid, a Urethane rubber. However, it has to be mixed with appropriate modifiers to yield an optimum hardness and flexibility for an infill. Also, he notes that the metal parts must have an appropriate primer for bonding. (Reference HSM Vol 18, #6.) If you can match the hardness to the sizes and masses of the body and infill, it is also very effective in dampening vibration by coupling the metal and wooden parts and thus reducing chatter. This is just one of the many subtle engineering details that make his planes work so much better than everything else.