ORIGINAL: RCKen
Gray Beard,
Sounds like the same guy handled my trim iron in the past as well!!!!! I know the misery of breaking that small shoe on the trim iron, did the same myself as well. My solution?? I bought another trim iron, but now I've taken steps to ensure I'm never in the same boat again. When you go to swap meets keep an eye out for those ''junk boxes'' that are on a lot of tables. Did around in them and it's possible you'll find that small shoe. At one swap meet I came up with 4 of them, and for a total of $1.25 I now have 4 spares if I ever break one again!!!
Ken
I have three bottles of Pacer hinge glue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last swap meet I went to I dug into every box I could find, nothing there. I did find a new iron at a good price but I also found one of those way cool covering cutters for the same price. It was a hard choice but I get to try out my trim cutter pretty soon!!!
I really should have bought both, my old trim iron is held together with hose clamps, like I don't run my hand on those and the end still wobbles. I will be keeping my eyes open for those shoes, thanks for the reminder. I may hit the LHS today and go dig through his junk bins. Last week when I was there the owner was going through some of his old stuff. Huge spinners of every different size and shape, he was going to take them to the scrap place. I got a brand new 3.5 inch Tru Turn for $5.00. Too bad I sanded the nose of this plane some more before I started covering. I guess a little over size doesn't mater!!
