Found a Stanley 45 - Questions

The book

Jim in Burlington On

>LV makes reprints of the stanley 45 book for 5$ US then you'll know what parts you are missing.

Patrick's Blood and Gore *LINK*

Jorge Castaneda

>Hi Bill,

You can also look in here:


Blood and Gore

To make it work

Jim Reed@Tallahassee

>you need main body section (which you probably have)

center section for blades over 3/8"

rods and fence for rabbeting

and of course, BLADES

The most handy use I find for a #45 is running a 1/8 groove. It is easy and quick. That is the best blade to start with. Good luck with yours--nice find.

link to manual scans available free *LINK*

Andrew F in Australia

>Stanley instruction manuals (multiple planes) scanned and avaialble free.

With many thanks to Roger Nixon for the webspace and maintenance efforts on the traditional tools site.

Cheers,

Andrew F


http://www.traditionaltools.us/cms/Forums/viewforu

Geez Bill......I'm really worrying now

Michael Stadulis, in Gloucester County, NJ

>first a smoother and now you're tuning up a 45!!! What's gotten in to you man!!

Mike

Blades, you need blades?

Neal (San Jose)

>You can try ebay or other second-hand sources, but the blades frequently sell for more than a complete plane on these sites. Go figure. Jim Reed, of the previous post, makes replacement blades for the 45 as well as for several other hard-to-find types, but he was too shy to mention it.

Re: Found a Stanley 45 - Questions

Richard A.Gillespie, Jr.

>Bill;

I have two Stanley 45's. One I inherited from my father and I was told it belonged to my great grandfather and the other was a recent gift from a neighbor. To my knowledge my father never used the plane after he inherited it. It sat in his damp basement and collected dust and rust. It appears to be complete in the original cardboard box, but very rusty. The other one is missing some of the the attachments and blades but is much less rusty.

I used my great grandfather's today for the first time. I choose his because it was complete with both depth stops and the handle had the sharp edges worn smooth from use. I wanted to cut dado's for the bottom panel on a box I'm building for the gift 45. I previously decided to build the box using nothing but hand tools. The challenge is that I don't always know what I'm doing. The first clue I got on this was after ripping 5/4 stock and planing it smooth I ended up with 3/8" to 7/16" thick stock.

After sharpening the 3/8" blade and scoring knives for the skates, I set the depth stops and tried a test cut in pine. As previously instructed, I started the cuts on the end of the piece working my way back to the beginning. The plane did much better than I expected. I had heard a number of horror stories of how hard the 45 is to set up and found them to be unfounded for this application. I then cut the dado's in the Ash box. Three sides went very well. the fourth was harder to do with it going against the grain. All in all, I was impressed with the usefulness of the plane and will use it again. I sure don't want them to sit on the shelf for another 60 years unused.

Re: Found a Stanley 45 - Questions

Bill Grumbine (Kutztown PA)

>Thanks for the responses and links everyone! Mike, I have always had some hand tools around, but I am in the process of expanding my capabilities. Don't worry, I won't be going hard core or anything.

Bill

I am just waiting...

Dan Donaldson

>Until you put a hand crank on that Poolwood ;-)