Fellow GalootsIn the past I have struggled aligning the halves of cracked plane
totes to glue them. I stumbled across a way to do so,using the existing hole,
recently.  It involves using a No. 2 Phillips screwdriver, shimmed with a piece
of soda can.  Thescrewdriver is a loose fit. Cutting a triangle shaped piece of
the soda can, with the tip trimmed off, I can use it as a shimto tighten  the
screwdriver to a snug fit, and the two halves will align easily.  Add adequate
glue, and a strong rubber band and wah lah, "Robert is your Mother's(or your
Dad's) brother.Once I discovered this, I felt it was too good not to
share.RespectfullyBill

Hobby shop nearby?  Get some 5/16” brass tubing.  Use it as an internal
splint to align the broken parts.
Cheers from lakeside
Claudio

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:10 AM wmy2@f... 
wrote:

I use a long bolt, with a plastic piece angled on the end.  Combination
alignment and clamp when a wingnut is added.

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 7:39 AM, Claudio DeLorenzi 
wrote:

>  Get some 5/16” brass tubing.  Use it as an internal
> splint to align the broken parts.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 10:10 AM wmy2@f... <
> wmy2@f...>
> wrote:
>
> >...I have struggled aligning the halves of cracked
> > plane totes to glue them. I.... It involves using a No. 2 Phillips
> screwdriver,
> > shimmed with a piece of soda can.  Thescrewdriver is a loose fit.
> Cutting a
> > triangle shaped piece of the soda can, with the tip trimmed off, I can
> use
> > it as a shimto tighten  the screwdriver to a snug fit, and the two halves
> > will align easily.
> >

-- 
Kirk Eppler in HMB, CA

all good methods

  I still can find nothing better than 5/16" allthread lightly greased.
If you carve a couple of blocks that match the angles, then your nuts 
will be pulling in a straight line.
I have glued a lot of totes

  http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/tote.htm

yours scott

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Gentle Galoots:

List member George Langford has a great discussion of tote repair on his
website:

https://www.georgesbasement.com/fixatote.htm

Note the part about removing the oil from the rosewood using acetone before
gluing.

He also offers a method to prevent the totes from breaking in the first place,
using Belleville conical spring washers, but for some unknown reason, I can’t
access that page at the moment.

John Ruth

Sent from my iPhone

On Aug 18, 2018, at 11:43 AM, scott grandstaff mailto:scottg@s...">mailto:scottg@s...>> wrote:

all good methods

 I still can find nothing better than 5/16" allthread lightly greased.
If you carve a couple of blocks that match the angles, then your nuts will be
pulling in a straight line.
I have glued a lot of totes

 http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/tote.htm

yours scott

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  Scott Grandstaff
  Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
  scottg@s...<mailto:scottg@s...>
  http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/
  http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html

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Thanks for the reference to Georges basement
<https://www.georgesbasement.com/>.  It's a mine of information and a trove
of old tools list lore.

I have been wandering through the list archives looking for the story of
the HY-80 Submarine-Hull-anvil, finding only some vague references and
broken links to pictures.  I still have to wonder where he got a piece of a
submarine hull.

PK

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018, 10:53 AM Phil Koontz  wrote:

> I have been wandering through the list archives looking for the story of
> the HY-80 Submarine-Hull-anvil, finding only some vague references and
> broken links to pictures
>

This has a bit of the story and a working picture.
https://www.georgesbasement.com/fs2101a.htm

one of my totes has a very thin wall brass tube permanently installed in 
that location, and the missing bits of wood from within the join 
replaced with rosewood dust and epoxy. if you look carefully you can see 
  the repair, but barely.

I used your method on the first tote and I will be using it on the last. The
only change, I am occasionally forced to use, is line boring the broken
sections.
The 5/16" all thread works as a pin to hold them in line. Some totes were
drilled from both ends and don't always meet dead center.