ERLover wroteBeave, I feel your pain bro, I love SS with how they are built and ease to maintain, and variable speed, my first a greenie, I had to put belts and bearings on, with the help here was cheap and effortless. Now it is a shorty with a belt sander on one end, and disk on the other, or some horizontal boring. I will be honest, unless I had a more modern one and not a dedicated TS I would not use one for that, but for all else are a great multi machine.
I love my SS 520, and the 500 dedicated drill press is awesome. There are always some issues with any tool. I honestly thought about buying it just to restore it. But, instead I will let someone else get some great use out of it. I wouldn't be so generous if it had a lathe duplicator though. lol But that isn't a 10er piece.
