I have just bought a Stanley combination plane 45E via ebay. Unfortunately the instructions are missing. Is there a source where I can get a photocopy of the original instructions. Also I would like to buy some additional cutters. Where can I get a list of the cutters once available and is there a source for secondhand cutters? Thanks for helping Kai
Kai?, That's twice in two days I've heard the name. Scandinavian/Dutch/Somewhere up in that region we 'Muricans can never quite identify on a map?
Anyway, enough about you. Stan Faullin is your man. Go to his Web page and start clicking on the Stanley links. He has instruction manuals available in PDF form.
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Here is some information including links to descriptions of all the cutters and optionial bottoms:
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 08:15:17 -0500, "Maverick" sugsested:
I believe St. James Bay Tool Co. sells cutter blanks made out of tool steel that you can use to grind custom profiles. I visited their website a couple days ago, but tonight I tried and it's not there. Hopefully it's a temporary hiccup.
Layne
You will need to cut, file, or slowly grind them if they are low-alloy high carbon tool steel. If you use a high speed grinder you will anneal them. IIRC, the annealing temperature for O-1 or W-1 is about 325 F.
Not knocking the idea, just pointing this out.
If you really are into making your own you can buy O-1 or W-1, shape it, heat it to the Curie temperature with a torch, quench it in olive oil or tap water and anneal it in an ordinary oven.
I bought mine off of eBay, the cutters do sometimes show up.
snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net (Fred the Red Shirt) wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@posting.google.com:
Yeah, they show up all the time. You've gotta be patient though; I finally picked up a set of straight cutters for about $25, all in decent user shape.
Regards, JT
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