hot dogs

[John Borgwardt]

I would like to try one of the hot attachments Lie Nielsen has for there planes. But I am to cheap to buy one. My question is can anyone share with me how this hot dog is held on to the plane? My thought is a socket set screw. Would anyone care to comment? Thanks John

[Mark Stutz]

The #9 uses a small set screw. I don't know about the #62, but a quick email to LN would get an answer, usually the next day.

Mark

[John Borgwardt]

I came home and had to try to make one. It worked great. I found I did not need anything to hold it in place. Best $50.00 I never spent. John

[Gary Benson]

Post some pictures of your efforts. I would like so see what you came up with .
Gary

[John Borgwardt]

I will take some pictures tonight and try my hand at posting them. John

[John Borgwardt]

Here are a couple of photos of the hot dog I made. As of right now I have nothing holding it on other than friction. It works great now. I added the cherry to the top of the plane after I got it. Thanks for asking. John

[Bruce Page]

John, your pictures are a weee bit small. Can you post larger ones?

thanks

[John Borgwardt]

I will try it again. John

[John Borgwardt]

I tried to attach a bigger picture but the it says my picture is to big. I have seen much bigger pictures than mine. Can any one tell me how to attach pictures the right way? Thanks John

[Zahid Naqvi]

I think your picture in post #8 is about as big as it gets on SMC. The picture download tool has some information on the size and pixel limitation.

[Bruce Page]

John, the picture size is related to file size and resolution. I use the “Save for web” feature in Adobe Photoshop for my pics. There are free programs out there that do pretty much the same thing as Adobe.
I think the file size limit at SMC is around 105 kbytes.

Thanks for the bigger picture. Beautiful tool!

[Henk Marais]

What is the aim of this attachment? Is it to improve the grip?

[Mike Cutler]

What is the aim of this attachment? Is it to improve the grip?

It improves control of the plane, by improving the ability to grip the plane.

John.
Nice work. I have the "factory" version, but I like yours better.

[John Borgwardt]

I used the plane with the hot dog and the handle LN supplied today. Man what a difference. I truly recomend the hot dog. It is comfortable and I had a much better feel for the work being done. Thanks for listening. John