On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:05:07 -0600, "Guy LaRochelle"
wrote:

Can someone
explain what #4, #5, #9.........all means? Then someone will come out with
#220...................quite a spread in the numbers and I don't understand
the relationship.

Angle subtended between the moon and Sirius on the night the first
castings were poured. It's pretty much arbitrary.

http://www.supertool.com/StanleyBG/stan0.htm
will give you a good lookup for the types of Stanley around

http://www.amgron.clara.net/planingp...planeindex.htm
Jeff Gorman's planing notes will tell you more about how to use them