Thanks to this group, I've got a carpentry plane

and how I fixed the lateral adjuster lever

Bill Houghton, in cold, rainy Sebastopol, CA

>The lateral adjuster lever was designed as a two-piece lever - the lever part, which twists at the outer end to form a handle; and the wheel that operates on the plane iron in the iron's slot. The wheel had rolled away somewhere, leaving the lever free to move uselessly on the frog.

Step 1 was to remove the lever from the frog, which I accomplished by filing the back side of the rivet down to the frog and then drilling and driving it out of the frog and lever.

I found a washer with roughly the right thickness and outer diameter. Its hole was a bit larger than the hole in the lever, but the use of a countersunk brass rivet solved that, as the countersink centered the hole quite nicely. After I set and flattened the rivet, I filed down the head a bit so it would stay in the thickness of the iron (and not interfere with the cap iron), and the back side so it wouldn't grate on the frog body. I chucked another brass rivet in an electric drill chuck, and reduced the head size by running it against a file (similar approach to Derek Cohen's in his recent monograph on making knurled cap screws), then riveted the lever back on the frog.

Works a treat; we'll see over time whether the hollow brass rivets are strong enough for the application.

By the way, if anyone recognizes the frog pattern as belonging to a particular maker, I'd be interested, just to see what I've assembled here.

collectible lever cap?

woodburnbob

>...at least it appears so to me. I can imagine it's a prototype for a piece of political memorabilia for the Al Franken Senate race?

Franken

Bill Houghton, in cold, rainy Sebastopol, CA

>No, it's a product of the Franken Werkzeug Werken, makers of the famed "Frankenplane."

The fact that Al Franken shares the name is coincidental, though, of course, he could be related to the family that founded the firm.

Are you kidding?

woodburnbob

>Bill, I'm not sure if you are pulling my leg on this:

No, it's a product of the Franken Werkzeug Werken, makers of the famed "Frankenplane."

So I have to ask for a little more information. I image googled "Franken plane" and simple got a lot of pictures of Al Franken near or aboard airplanes.

All the relevant sites and discussions in Google-Web and Google-Group are about handplanes, model airplanes and real airplanes that are built from parts many different planes.

In each context, their are several folks who define "frankenplane" with reference to analogies of Frankenstein's monster...assembled from parts.

Absolutely nowhere do I see anything about "Franken Werkzeug Werken" or its "famed Frankenplane". I don't suppose you could offer a few links to help me out here?

Hey Bill......

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Seems that Bob has swallowed everything, hook, line, sinker, and the pole up to the reel. I hope you practice catch and release. ;~)

T.O.

Type 19 Stanley? *LINK*

Greg B�tit, Vergennes VT

>I don't know squat about Stanley, but in Tom Price's Millers falls type study he compares a Millers Falls frog with a Stanley. The Stanley frog in Figure 8 looks exactly like the Franken plane's.


Tom Price's Millers Falls Type 1 Study

Re: Are you kidding? *LINK*

Wolfgang Jordan

>Well, there once was a German plane maker in an area called Franken (Northern Bavaria), and one of their trademarks was 'Frankenwerkzeuge'. Just have a look at my homepage with pictures and info about this company FRIEDRICH OTT & CO.

Wolfgang in Munich/Germany

(Sorry, the English abstract is still empty)




Friedrich Ott, Frankenwerkzeuge

Re: Are you kidding? *LINK*

Fred Peake

>The "famed Franken plane" refers to Teressa Franken, a renowned Nebraska tool dealer and musical saw virtuoso.


Franken Tools

You've still got one of those old label makers?

John in New Mexico

>The kind that embosses the letters on heavy plastic tape?

John

Catch and release?

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>With a big trout like that?

Yes, I was kidding, Bob. Although it's clearly not as widespread a term as I thought, I've seen "frankenplane" used more than once to refer to (wood) planes assembled from different parts, and, yes, based on Viktor Frankenstein's monster assembly practices. I guess we galoots are following the lead of our airier brethren and sistren.

But now I learn, from Wolfgang, that there WAS a Franken toolmaker. I intended no disrespect.

Two, actually

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>one as a backup. They come dirt cheap at garage sales, usually with some of the tape, qualify as a hand tool, and are really quite handy. I scored major at one sale, and now have enough tape (including the cool psychedelic tape used on the frankenplane's lever cap) for probably the rest of my life.

Ahhh Bill...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Your making my head swell. It was nothing. Let's see 'ol frankie when it's all cleaned up!