Hi Bob, welcome to the list.

Re your #51 shave, one more thing to check is that the bed isn't  
gunked up from the rustoleum. If the bed is not smooth and flat, the  
blade can move around under the cap iron and is hard to tighten down  
properly. Some careful filing is one remedy if the bed is uneven.

Peter Robinson
Brisbane, Australia

On 13/06/2010, at 7:23, Bob Miller  wrote:

> Tom,
>
> "Bob, could the knurled screw in the cap be bottoming out on the  
> underside
> of its knurled head? "
> The knurled screw is actually very long for what it needs to do.   
> Even with
> it tightened down all the way there is still room to extend it  
> another 3mm
> (1/8").  Both screws move cleanly up and down all the way so it is  
> not just
> rusted up.  Looking at it again (I ignored it for a month after not  
> being
> able to get it work) I noticed that the chip breaker/lever cap  
> doesn't sit
> flush across the width of the blade, nor is is square to the line  
> between
> the slotted screw and the knurled screw.  I may try filing it to a  
> better
> shape.
>
> Bob
>
> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Thomas Conroy  >wrote:
>
>> Galooteratti:
>>
>> The blade of Bob Miller's Stanley 51 spokeshave is slipping even  
>> when the
>> screw is tightened down hard.
>>
>> Bob, could the knurled screw in the cap be bottoming out on the  
>> underside
>> of its knurled head? This would allow the blade to slip. The  
>> solution might
>> be to back off the knurled cap screw a few turns and tighten down the
>> slotted body screw a few turns. If the slotted screw won't go in  
>> further, I
>> would investigate that the hole in the body is gunged up with rust or
>> rustoleum. A lot of the time, I have found, maybe always, the  
>> slotted screw
>> will hold the cap and iron firmly enough all by themselves, without  
>> the
>> extra leverage of the knurled screw. Just a suggestion.
>>
>> If that doesn't work, try slipping a thick spacer between the blade  
>> and the
>> lower end of the knurled screw; a washer with a tiny hole might do.  
>> Or try
>> wiping some anti-slip sticky stuff on the blade and bed of the  
>> shave (watch
>> out, though, you still want a bit of slip to adjust it.)
>>
>> Not speaking from experience, I use a 151, not a 51. But its all  
>> worth
>> trying.
>>
>> Tom Conroy
>> Berkeley
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Bob Miller
>>
>> The second is an identification and use question.  This past  
>> Christmas my
>> parents knowing my new found love bought me a box of rust  
>> (literally, all
>> of
>> the tools needed a lot of love to get working).  It was one of the  
>> best
>> presents I have ever received and now I have a bunch of tools that  
>> work
>> beautifully.  There is one exception though.  It was a spoke shave  
>> that
>> some
>> previous owner "restored".  And by restored I mean it looks like he  
>> took
>> the
>> blade and chip breaker to a wire wheel and then just rustoliumed  
>> the whole
>> body without removing the rust first.
>> After filing the paint off of the machined surfaces and back far  
>> enough
>> from
>> the sole to stop leaving black streaks on the wood I thought I had  
>> a very
>> comfortable spoke shave.  It was far more comfortable than the  
>> Stanley 151
>> that also came in said box o rust.  Unfortunately the chip breaker  
>> will not
>> hold the blade in position under use.  I have not tried excessive  
>> force but
>> no tightness of the screw in the center or the top will hold it.   
>> Does
>> anyone know a remidy for this situation.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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