I solved the issue of how to mount the ShopSmith medallion that covers the headstock access hole so that it would be easily removable. As you recall from previous posts, although my headstock has the factory access hole, my medallion DID NOT have either the retaining spring steel clip or evidence of ever being swaged to accommodate one like to medallion jpg showed in his post #243.
All I can conclude with my medallion is that either it is not the original medallion for my headstock OR it was mounted on my headstock with some kind of mechanical fastener over the posts. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense that the factory would go through all the effort to redesign the headstock to have an access hole then mount the medallion in a way that it couldn't be installed without accessing the inside of the headstock but apparently that is the case. What probably happened in they had the new headstock castings with the access hole but they did not have the process or parts set up to put on the retaining spring steel clip on so they shipped it out as is. Who knows.
Anyway, I got the idea while looking at my donut that I was eating this morning for breakfast!! I figured a "donut" on the post might just work. Here's a photo. My "donut" is a small neoprene grommet used when your running small wires though a piece of sheet metal to protect the insulation.
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Here's the grommet on the post
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Remember that the medallion posts go into the 2 half moon tabs shown here
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And finally, here's how it gets installed. The side with the grommet on the post goes on first, and the other post second.
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As your installing, you are actually pushing and compressing the grommet against the half moon tab. It then acts like a spring and PUSHES the other post over so that it presses firmly up against the mating half moon tab on the other side. It holds it on quite nicely.
Success!!
Good thing is I didn't have to modify any of the original ShopSmith components. I was getting REAL CLOSE to trying to mount the retaining spring steel clip similar to jpg's with either J-B Weld or liquid nails as was suggested but thanks to my awesome good breakfast donut, I was saved from that.
