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I grabbed my No 14 and started making shavings.  ......  The
first 3/16ths of the female threads for the lever cap screw are
completely threaded out.  .......  The screw seems fine,  and you
can get it to hold tight if you screw it down deeper, it's just
the top few CRITICAL 16ths of thread that are ripped out.  So my
question is, is this plane junk or is it possible for me to find
a longer screw to use with the intact deeper threads? 

To which I blindly reply:

Gathered Galoots
Will the frog from a #9 sized Dunlap by MF fit Mr Springston's
plane.  (Dunlap / Dunlop appears to have been a sears low end
brand which was mfg by MF for them.  The frog has the cartouches
on the back)

If someone replies in the affirmative, its yours.  I keep this as
a donor plane, as I stole the lever cap screw out of this one, to
replace a MF where the screw was the wrong thread, and would get
into position, then pop like yours when used.

Lemme know

Kirk in HMB, CA (and actually still there for a change)

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