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Bought it! Now I'm in the process of clearing shop space for it by giving some of my space-hogging tools to unsuspecting family members. Need to ask a question though...anybody ever cut, sand, shape fiberglass on your SS? I know that sounds crazy, but I have made a few Bingham recurve archery bows (...

After lurking here for weeks, I finally made an offer. Now I have to clear space out of the tiny woodshop!

Thanks, guys. I appreciate your feedback. Safety isn't something you experiment with in order to perfect. It's no risk to try out handcarving, hand planing, etc, just to see what's feasible while sitting down, but I wouldn't want to find out the hard way while spinning up a power unit.

I can't find my way back to nuhobby's recent post about his watch-tinker's tray, but in his photo was a shop stool sitting by his SS. I've been wanting to get/build a shop stool because when I get tired and plop myself down on the shopvac, it's probably hard on its little caster feet...and not reall...

Thanks for all the good information, guys!

And the other items...that we know of. The good part about buying from a friend is that if I were to find something missing, I know I can go back and search for it.

There is a saw guard--we just took it off as we were poking around. Eventually we got the saw arbor off and located a drill chuck.

Guys, Thanks for the feedback. I think this 500 is in reasonable condition; my friend remembers his dad waxing it, and he thinks it was maintained. It's dusty, but no terrible rust. When we ran it up to top speed, I thought it sounded like a small plane ready to take off, but now I've heard that sam...

I remember as a teenager seeing a Shopsmith at a fair and thinking it would be really cool if I had a place to put one. Many years have gone by, and I now have a 16'x16' woodworking shop crammed full of boat anchors. I'm really more interested in developing skills reproduction furniture maker using ...