In the process of building that box....had a bunch of resets on the Stanley #45 to do....mainly changing where the fence will be, and whether short or long rods were to be used....decided to make some things a bit..easier to do

To change those rods...there are 4 thumbscrews to loosen, and tighten back up, with one too close the the handle area.  They all needed a pair of needle nosed pliers to get them to ...move...look right under the wheel to adjust the depth of cut....so...

I retired these two (FIRED!) and stashed them away...had a pair of slotted bolts to replace them....instead of pliers, I can just...

Use something like this....like on the rest of the plane....which leaves these two...

I don't have any to replace these two, they are a lot longer, and have pointed end.    About all I could do was pull them both out, clean the crud in the threads, give the threads a drop (a SMALL one) of 3in1 oil, and run them back in....they work a little better,,,still need pliers, but these are easier to get to.

 

Issue came up with the #12 cutter I had been using for 1/4" wide grooves....when I tried to level the grooves bottom with the router plane...the new Veritas 1/4" cutter would not fit in the 1/4" groove..

Measured the with of the Veritas...0.252"....the #12?  0.249" wide....could be a problem?   Dug out the other 1/4" sized cutter I have for the #45 plane..

Only marking is a "T"...measured it....0.251" wide.   needed a bit of sharpening, bevel was rounded  a bit, back needed flattened....then, while the stones were handy, worked on the Veritas as well, had a chip-out in the edge.  I also stoned both sides of the cutter to match the 0.251" reading I need..

"New" cutter in the #45 plane, and a fresh groove made....then tried the router plane for size...

need a bit of wax, but it did slide right along...Router is set up like this, so it can travel along the jig.   Went back to "normal setting" later..

When I had a bit more"elbow room"....

 

Now I have to go shopping for fence bolts.....may just chase the threads and use NEW thumbscrews....IF I can point the edges to match Stanley's bolts.

 

 

Could you cut a slot in the heads? Just wondering.

Not in a thumbscrew

50 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Not in a thumbscrew

 

What thread type?

Typical, odd ball Stanley threads.....same thread size they used for the bolts that hold a frog down in a Stanley hand plane.....

 

The thumbscrews come up a lot on FeeBay....less than $20 for a pair of the Tapered ones....They need to have the pointy ends.   No real rush, right now...

OOPS! Just went back for another look, and realized I was looking at the wrong thing!

What I saw was the end of the posts.