Her Majesty delivers the mail

Re: Her Majesty delivers the mail

Denis Ch�nard, Orl�ans, Ont.

>Save the box, absolutely! Might not seem much value to you today, but future owners will appreciate...

DC

Re: saving the box

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>Nice little plane there. I think I have one similar, without the box. Saving the box is a very personal question. I save the boxes for my tools figuring if the girls ever want to sell there dad's tools they will apreciate it. I don't have a lot of space, but then I am not buying a lot of new tools either. Buying tools is a long term investment. I think technically the space that is taken up by the box is not the best investment of that space, because the value of the box increases so slowly. In other words the use of the space might be more profitable if you built a car wash there instead. This is another reason why I save the box; it is just the galoot thing to do. It goes against the grain of our disposable society.

I'd keep the box

Jim in Burlington On

>Shipping must have been murder. If I ever make it to England I'm going to take a extra bag just for tools.

Re: eye tests needed for regulars?

paul womack

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Cool looking!

Dominic Greco in Richboro PA

>Hi Bill,

Wow, I love getting packages like that in the mail! I take it from the rust at the "nose" that this bull nose needs some TLC. I've never messed around with reconditioning one of these planes before. What do you need to do to (if anything) to get this little beauty ready to roll?

Sheet rock taping! YEEE-yuck!! That is one of my least favorite tasks. When my Dad and I were working on the addition at his and my Mom's house, we decided to sub out the sheet rock taping and spackling to a pro. Best money we ever spent! That guy knew all the tricks. And after he was done you could not see a seam or detect a ripple in the surface of the wall.

See ya around,

Dominic

A Ford/Record joint venture? Extra rare!

John in New Mexico

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Here is a thought!

Ernie Miller

>You keep the box and send me the plane. just put it in a couple padded envelopes it will make it to me fine. By the way You SUck!

Shipping was pricey

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>but the bid price was low enough that it was still cheaper than some I've bid on.

Used it a little

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>and even without sharpening the iron, which is a little ragged, it cut better than my No. 75. The body is, as best I can tell, a solid casting, so the weight is substantial for such a small tool; and I suspect the low-angle, bevel-up design makes for a better angle of attack.

Tuning

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I'm probably the wrong guy to ask, since I've never gotten much into hotrodding my planes - clean them up, lubricate what needs lubricating, sharpen iron, go to work. I have gotten rid of some that didn't work well after this regimen, and I don't work exotic woods, and recognize that more advanced tuning would undoubtedly yield benefits; just have never felt I had the time.

I did check the sides for square to the sole (yes), and one is supposed to check that the iron either does not stick out on either side of the body or sticks out .001" or thereabouts, which I haven't done yet.

Re: A Ford/Record joint venture? Extra rare!

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>It's well known that Ford bought Jaguar - what has not been as well known is that Irwin is secretly a front company for Ford, which is diversifying in case this automobile thing is just a flash in the pan. Seems like Ford's getting bold enough to show its colors now...

Nice Bill, but...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>I see you you've got yourself an 077 "A" witch means the bull nose section is adjustable via shims. Are they intact?

I've never see a box like that myself, insteresting. I wounder when it was made? All mine have paste board blue boxes with yellow lables. Some are later that came in cordboard ones. I 've never seen a box like that one. I'd keep it myself.

I have a 077 non adjustable, it's a sweet little plane with a nice width IMHO.

Still looking for a 077A myself, I perfer mine in the wooden boxes, but they now go for serious bucks.

Nice score! Get her cleaned up and it will give you an aboundance of pleasuer!

Scott and others: the box part was a joke

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>The box originally contained some Ford (of England, I assume) auto part. The eBay seller recycled it to send the plane to me. I was joking, gang...though I am holding onto the box for the moment, since it's a good size for shipping my No. 75 when I sell it to some unsuspecting soul.

Yes, it's an 077A, and the shims are there. The nose and shims are located with two pins in the nosepiece that mate with matching holes in the body. The shims each have one hole that is sized to the pin, and one slot for the other pin, thus saving the company some effort in machining. Each of the two shims uses a different pin for the locating hole - I don't know if this was intentional or just a matter of the assembler's sense of humor. It appears to me that the body, nosepiece, and shims were ground flush while assembled, so getting the shims on in proper order makes sense. When I clean up the plane, I'll probably use a laundry marker to write "front" on the shims or something, to save myself confusion later.

Re: well yea but

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>It was pretty early in the morning for me, and my monitor is not that large; so I guess the joke was on me. But when I look at the pic now I can clearly see the logo. I kind of wondered, but the question is asked so often that I guess I never considered the source. I have a very nice Stanley #60-1/2 box that has written on the end without the label, in bright red letters and underlined, "PENCILS". I paid $10 for it I think, plus shipping. A person goes through phases in life I guess. Right now I wouldn't give a wooden nickel for that box. But I did put a nice #60-1/2 block plane in it and added it to my stack of boxes.