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I will be going over my process of restoring my Millers Falls No. 56 Low Angle Block
Plane that I just purchased from Ebay for $15.
These are pictures of the plane as I recieved it. |
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There is a little bit of rust, the jappaning is wearing through and there is some
yellow pant on it. |
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The blade looks like it has plenty left in it. |
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Bad picture but the Millers Falls label stamped on the side |
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The sole looks nice and flat, Its got some scraches in it so I will problably flatten
it down some more. |
No chips or cracks in the plane so everything looks like its in good condition.
Well see as we clean it up. |
Completely dissasembled. |
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There was a lot of pitch and sawdust gunk around the mouth. I took a brass brush
and tried to scrape out as much as I could. |
I used a little Rust Free rust remover and naphtha to clean out the inside of the
bed |
Now to start on the rest of the body. I used the rust free and a green scotch
brite bad to remove the bulk. |
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The resulting cleaner side. |
The other side of the plane |
And first round of cleaning. |
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The sole. |
The under side of the moving mouth piece. You can see there was welding repair made
the the screw hole. It still functions properly so I don't really care. |
Bottom side of the sliding mouth. |
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Next I took everything to the buffer. I used tripolie and cleaned up all the
metel surfaces to removed all the paint and rust. |
The cleaned parts |
Next I waxed all the parts. |
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Fully Assembled |
Millers Falls No. 57. |
I did a very quick clean to get the rust and excess paint off and sharpened up the
blade. I needed to use the plane right away in my bookcase project. A proper
restoring of the jappaning and fully cleaning it up will have to wait. |
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