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Backlash the reduction off

Thanks Pete.

What confused me was thinking you were talking about the adjuster knob, not the lever. My fault.
 
Thanks Pete I'll have a look at a couple of mine.
Can you remember what thickness shim or is it trial and error, and did you use epoxy?
 
I used some very thin stuff I had kicking around it’s got to be under a millimetre.
I used superglue I think but epoxy would be fine probably better if it’s a bit gappy.

Pete
 
Thanks Pete
I have several thicknesses of shim so will play around. Great idea, some of my planes have too much backlash for my liking.
 
I've never really understood the fuss about "backlash". Adjusting the iron to protrude further, no issue. Retracting the iron, just spin the adjuster back the other way until contact is made. It's not like tap, tap tap - oops a bit over, tap tap - still not right ... and we somehow put up with that. Perhaps I'm missing something. Or work to levels of precision that means it doesn't matter ...
 
Tony, perhaps some people like to micro adjust planes on the go. Rob Cosman is an example. In such cases minimal backlash would presumably help.
 
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