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No problem on "not much of an answer", and thanks for the info on the old Mark VII. My inclination is to just try it at a very slow speed, see if there's any bad noise or vibration, and then SLOWLY speed it up a little at a time, making sure it stays smooth and quiet and doesn't get hot. A...

Was thinking of the ability to run a shaper cutter upside down if desired. Might be a valuable capability if it's possible to do it without damage.

Works very nicely, by the way. Very quiet.

Not set up to flip the table around to allow the headstock to drive directly from under the table.

I recently upgraded to a PowerPro headstock and was using it with my speed increaser the other day. I know not to exceed 4700 RPM when doing this, but what about running it at 4700 RPM with the headstock in reverse? Anyone know if this could damage the speed increaser? I'd just be guessing unless I ...

Thank you so much for that. Sorry I'm so slow in responding, I had some unfortunate happenings and just now got back here to download and thank you. This will be really helpful!

That would be amazing, thanks so much!!

Just purchased a nice SS grinding wheel guard on ebay with 1 arbor and 2 - 4.5 inch Norton wheels. There's no documentation with it and I can't find anything on the SS website (I know they haven't sold this for a long time). Any ideas where I might find any documentation or if there were ever any do...