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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:16:44 -0500
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- From: "Wile E. Coyote" <BBHULSEY@LIFE.UAMS.EDU>
- Subject: Resurfacing Plane Soles
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- Greetings!
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- I've got an old 24" Record jointer plane that I'd like to tune up and get back
- into good service. On my other, shorter planes, I've reground the soles to
- get them dead flat and smooth by clamping wet-or-dry sandpaper to the bed of
- my jointer and using that as a grinding surface. However, with the 24" plane,
- I'm concerned that this method is not going to be as accurate (or feasible)
- and accuracy with this plane is actually more of a concern than with my other
- planes. Does anyone have any experience with regrinding long plane soles like
- this? Will machine shops do this sort of thing? I suppose I could go and get
- a nice long, thick piece of glass to use as a grinding surface, and some sort
- of abrasive. I'm not really sure what kind of abrasive to use though, and I'm
- concerned that the abrasive will eat into the glass faster than into the plane
- sole.
-
- Any tried and true suggestions appreciated.
-
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