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276041 kirkhmb 2022‑08‑01 Repair of a Gage Plane
Hey gang

I bought a Gage plane that needed a bit of work, and apparently the USPS didn't
think it was enough of a challenge as it was, so they upped the ante.
Question to the gathered, has anyone taken apart a Gage plane, and do you have
any hints before I go blindly onward?
Here is a cross section to start things off
https://archive.org/details/GageToolCo1911/page/n1/mode/1up

The plane now looks like
this.https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Planes/i-mFzdj5M

In the original picture the cheeks had cracks, one previously repaired, the
other not.  However, the knob was not bent, (and another chunk fell off).  Spent
a bit of time looking under the washing machine for a chunk that was obviously
missing for a long based on the dust pattern. Did find lots of dog kibble tho.
Oh, and the "iron throat extending through the stock"  is now extending much
more than it should, and much more than in the original pictures.
https://kirkhmb.smugmug.com/Woodworking/Planes/i-SZvGTLm

So, based on what I can see from the cross section, it appears the knob may be
screwed in, so pulling it out may not be a good choice, but unscrewing it might
work.  If its not screwed in, no big loss of time.

But the throat concerns me.  You can see from the second picture that there is a
reasonable gap at the body, and hanging out the bottom a good 3/16".  I'm
guessing the dowel pin serves an important purpose, so my current plan of attack
is to strip off all the loose pieces from the iron throat, and then press the
dowel pin the direction it has already started to go.  However, that is
"towards" the unrepaired cheek, so a bit of a pause there, as maybe it caused
the crack.  I'm assuming there is some type of boss or loop or something at the
back of the throat that
And no, I won't be sending it back to the vendor.  I want the plane, and they
don't show up around here too often.
Kirk in Half Moon Bay, CA, hoping I have more luck from this account than my
other one, which has barfed on the last few things I've sent to the listserver.

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