Router Plane Blades

Re: Router Plane Blades *LINK*

Skip in Falls Church

>You can get them from Stanley.

Skip


http://www.stanleytools.com/xhtml/literature/RepairPartsCatalog0304.pdf

Re: Router Plane Blades

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>I understand that the forthcoming LV router plane will use blades compatable with the Stanley.

I obtained a set of blades from St James Bay some years ago, and they were very nicely made and reasonable in price.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Router Plane Blades

paul womack

>Does anyone know if replacement blades (reproductions are fine) are available for the Stanley 71 router plane? Thanks.

Much as a I hate seeing an old tool die, I suspect you can get a whole #71 (with blades) for less than the cost of a set of replacement blades.

BugBear

Re: Router Plane Blades

Tom MacGregor

>Yeah, but it's a type I with the 1884 Pat. date, not one I want to replace. It came with one later blade that had the little screw-on pointed cutter which snapped. Has served me well - gotta fix my old friend.

Re: Router Plane Blades

Alan Hamilton

>Tom,

Recently I got some from Lee Valley. Rob Lee said he had them; but he left me with the impression that he didn't have an endless supply of them.

Rob, any more?

Alan

Re: Router Plane Blades

Paul Benton

>Tom, beware the newer blades, they normally come with graduations, don't fit the older 71's as well as the older style. The stem seems just ever so slightly oversized so that it doesn't adjust as freely as it should when you turn the adjustment wheel.

Paul

Re: Router Plane Blades

paul womack

>Yeah, but it's a type I with the 1884 Pat. date, not one I want to replace.

Not a problem. My point stands. I suspect you could get a complete "donor" #71 for less than after market blades.

BugBear (happy to be proven wrong, however)

Re: Router Plane Blades

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Not arguing with you, BugBear, just a point of interest. If you add up the prices of all the parts (bits) of the #71P in the Stanley Parts Catalog (link provided somewhere in this thread), assuming all the parts are still available, a whole, new router can be had for a few cents over $100 U.S. That's not a good deal, but it's a lot better than trying to build a whole Mercedes from the parts catalog.