Hey Pappy or anyone else!

[kwgeorge]

Looks like Stanley used some really strange threads on the screws. It looks like 12-20 and I don’t have a tap for that nor do I have the gears to cut this on my lathe. So, can any of you guys with perhaps some spare parts laying around help me out with the screw that is used for the front of the handle? Only piece I am missing and I really don’t want to rethread it.

Ken

[bigsteel15]

Is it possible that it is metric (6mm)?

[LCHIEN]

Is it possible that it is metric (6mm)?

He's talking about a 1910-1918 Stanley#5 plane he bought recently.
Made in Conn, USA in 1910 I doubt it's metric. It may not even be SAE.

[Jim Boyd]

Stanley had their own agenda when it came to threading their parts. Ken do you have a tall knob or short knob? I'm pretty sure I have one or the other laying around.

[kwgeorge]

Jim, it is the front handle screw not the knob. In the Stanley plane diagram I have it is referred to as “Handle Screw”. The others are referred to as “Bolts”. I used both my metric and standard thread gauges on the bolts but they are modern and don’t have the proper threads. Very squirrelly threads! I think this is something they did in house for some reason but it is not the first time a company would make something unique. I am about to wander outside and try making that drilling jig me and Don (Pappy) discussed so we will see how the drilling goes!

Ken

[Jim Boyd]

Oh, that screw I don't have Have you by chance tried the Stanley web site?
http://www.stanleytools.com/default....rtsservice.htm

[Pappy]

I got one....Send me your mailing address.