GGs

Here is what I have long assumed to be a factory attempt to reinforce the
larger sized Stanley totes around the front screw;
http://tinyurl.com/oqb3mam

Didn't work as the picture shows, and in fact creates a large area of short
grain.

Never seen another.

Mick Dowling
Melbourne
Member, Hand Tool Preservation Association of Australia Inc.




On 29/01/2015 12:52 pm, "David Carradine" 
wrote:

> GG's,
> 
> Since this has become a thread on broken totes I have to ask if anyone has a
> good way of recycling broken totes.  I don't mean the ones that you have both
> broken bits of that can be glued back together, but rather those ones that you
> get with a box of plane parts (all perfectly usable of course) where they are
> broken off an inch (25.4mm) or so from the top and the broken off part is long
> gone.  I could give them to the guy at the market who makes steampunk guns to
> use as handles, but I was thinking there may be a better way to recycle them.
> Any suggestions? 
> 
> Many thanks,
> GH
> 
> 
> Snip: 'll go inspect the bevy of broke
> tote planes in my shop and see what other damage I can
> see.
> 
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