I am so glad mine were glued in crooked, forcing me to change them. After seeing how easy I was able to score them with and blade and pull the surface right off, there is no doubt that mine would have failed sooner or later.. I would really check yours out guys, hate to see you lose a plane over them...


To get them apart I just scored the top of the joint on all of them and work the surface to it's max and they all just broke apart.. Pics show how crooked they were installed, thus the major binding I had. Being they were not put in straight, they were stretching the little loops that go over the brass ringthat holds them together...

The fix won't be to bad, but work non the less... Using the larger Robart hinge points calls for a 3/16" hole, using a piece of 3/16" brass tubing on a drillto core them out is working great.. The tubing fits right over the old hinge and pulls out the old hinge like it was never there. If you end up doing this, make sure you take off the brass eyelet and as much of the hinge sticking out as possible and it will fit fight in the brass tubing..

Jimbo