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jon wrote:Hey Everyone,

Thanks for the kind words, and great ideas. I like "cruising" this website because I learn a lot from all of you. Now if only I had more time. . .

By the way, I showed my wife the workbench and now she has some ideas for me too! Guess who will get priority on my time and projects?????

Have you learned that 'Show n' Tell' is not always a 'good' thing?:D

What kind of 'set screws' were used to secure the 'pipes' to the 'castings'?:D

robinson46176 wrote: . . .
On the old shoe finishing machines used for decades in shoe factories and shoe repair shops the end frames were heavy cast iron and the horizontal members were steel pipe which were clamped into place. A concept not much distant from the SS bench tubes. There were 4 tubes (hey, like Shopsmith again). . . .

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JPG40504 wrote:What kind of 'set screws' were used to secure the 'pipes' to the 'castings'?:D

Those bolt heads on the fronts of the legs screw into a wedge lock. Also not so far removed from SS design for locking the sliding units. Only on these base locks rather than just backing on up to release you just loosened the bolt a ways and tapped it in with a hammer to release the wedge. Once sat up most were never loosened. Like an SS the unit could be disassembled in minutes but it was a long process to get it all back together "properly". Set up involved a lot of adjustment of the 5 or 6 line shaft clutches. As a result most were moved from one location to another intact. There was a lot of weight in one of those old beast. That line shaft and all of the driven shafts were solid steel 1-5/16" plus a huge amount of castings. Even the dust collector blowers (6" outlet) were cast iron housings.
Probably more than you wanted to know.