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I think everything is fine. I just took the belt cover off and blew the dust out of the headstock with canned air. I also ran the motor with the cover off so I could see and hear better. The belts are running true and seem to be properly tensioned. I can't see anything rubbing. I was starting it at ...

Oh, that's a good idea! I have not taken off the belt cover, but I can do that easily.

It is a light scraping sound, like parts continuously rubbing on each other, but I can't tell if it's metallic or plastic or something else. It is not a banging, and it is not a squealing sound (like a loose belt). I was thinking that it sounded like it was coming from the quill area of the headstoc...

I have a 1983 Mark V that I have upgraded with the 520 table and fence and with the PowerPro (gen 1). It hasn't been used in about five years. I just turned it on and ran the speed up to a couple thousand RPMs and back down a couple of times, once in forward and once in reverse. It runs, but it soun...

I'm almost finished installing the PowerPro upgrade, but am having in little trouble mounting the new motor in the headstock casting: it won't push in quite far enough. As best I can tell, the issue is the heavy rubber strain relief on the bundle of blue wires on the motor. It's fairly stiff, and ru...

Let's at least be consistent about this. If trees and animals and rivers have legal standing and the right to sue for mistreatment, so do the flu virus, malaria, and E. coli. It looks to me like we're all guilty of mass murder for killing all these millions of innocent bugs every year--after all, th...

Another part of the problem of speculating on prices is that few of us (that I have seen, anyway) have indicated what their guestimates (or guessaments) are for: just a motor upgrade kit? enter new headstock? complete new Mark V "model 530"? $2000 for a motor upgrade kit is probably unreas...

Hi Guys Grasp the Tinnerman clips with a pair of pliers just forward of the rounded end and give a light squeeze. This should tighten them up a bit, Bill I finally got around to tinkering with this issue more, and started with this suggestion. (It was the easiest!) For now it seems to have worked g...

I hope they continue making parts for the current machines. Mine is only 25 or 30 years old. For as well-built as they are, that's a mere teenager in SS years! I figure it's got at least 50 more years in it. More than I've got, I'm sure, so I plan on using it for as long as I'm able. I'm sure a lot ...

On my model 500 (and I assume the newer 510s and 520s), the belt cover is held on with two pan-head screws and two of those simple, stamped, clip-on nuts (sorry, I have no idea what they're really called). Has anyone found a better way? Those nuts get bent easily and don't hold well. Thanks! Earl Mo...