I got lucky at the flea market this morning and picked up a Record 071 Router Plane and a Stanley 13-052 plough plane. (10 and 8 Euros respectively, call it $20.)
The Record, apart from missing the side fence has the blue paint partly overpainted by a ghastly pink matt paint. Is this some sort of protection and if so, could somebody recommend a solvent to remove it? I can make a substitute fence and the plane seems eminently usable.
I’m still trying to work out how to use the Stanley. “Hand Planes” by Gary Hack is still in the post. I could not find any useful info on this plane and would be grateful for a pointer to some.
Thanks.
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the pink was probably someone's idea of "organizing"----bizarre!!
I've removed most all paint from my old planes with a soak in laquer thinner. It will not eat the japaning but will loosen almost any other type of common paint. Use a fairly soft brush and you won't damage anything.
Be careful of the FUMES, they're nasty!
regards,
Mack
"Close enough for government work=measured with a micrometer, marked with chalk and cut with an axe"
FWIW, the pink may well have been a carpenter's security system. Lots of tradesmen who take their own tools to the jobsite paint them in some garish color to prevent them from being, er, "borrowed" -- permanently.
Mike Hennessy
Pittsburgh, PA
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