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Repairing a Broken Blade

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Repairing a Broken Blade

Dan Clermont in Burnaby

>Hello Everyone,

Has anybody out there ever Glued a blade back together?

I was helping a friend work on a 78 last night and noticed the blade was ot sitting properly on the bed.

At first I thought it was the bed but soon realized it was fine with my 78 blade so I stuck the little sweetheart blade in a vice and gave it a push. Well the blade broke in two and I have a 6" gouge out of my arm and most of my skin and hair were still sitting on the blade.

The break is clean and at the bottom of the slot. I was thinking about trying to either use some JB weld or Gorilla GLue to put it back together. Anybody tried this before? Anybody got a spare 78 Sweetheart blade and want to get me out of hot water with a friend?

TIA,

Dan Clermont

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Nope

David Miller from Iowa

>I don't think it will work. You can get a new, non trademarked blade from various sources, or you can try to get a plane off of ebay. Regards, David

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Re: Repairing a Broken Blade *LINK*

Tom MacGregor

>Lie-Neilsen sells a variety of replacement blades for other makers including the Stanley 78 at the link below. BTW - avoid injury by thinking beforehand whether or not part of you will be propelled toward a blade (or other hazard) if something slips or breaks. If the answer is yes, change your stance before applying pressure or figure out "plan B".


http://www.lie-nielsen.com/blades.html

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Jim in Burlington Ont.

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Jim in Burlington Ontario

>Silver solder it back together. Didn't LV have a few new record ones left not sure if they are exactly the same but someone will know for sure.

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