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Year Purchased: mid 1980's How bought: Dayton Store Reason: Not enough Shop space; had always wanted one Why Shopsmith?: Limited space; actually had standalone Craftsman drill press, Delta Lathe, Craftsman table saw. Sold off the drill press and lathe; eventually moved Craftsman saw to daughter's ho...

I would love to see a speed increaser that produced shaper speeds and had some way to reverse it. As a TA instructor once said, the increaser is a waste of time/money. These jobs are better left for a router with router table. Agreed at the current speed the increaser is a waste. However increase th...

Hi, Folks: The July-August issue of HSM with the second part of the ShopSmith adventure found its way into the mailbox today. Topics covered are the tools that the writer deems necessary to make all of the modifications and three relatively simple modifications to the machine - extending the legs to...

Hi, Folks: I'm not sure how much you're into modifying your ShopSmiths, but the May/June issue of "The Home Shop Machinist" has the first of several parts of "Shopsmith Adventures - Converting a Shopsmith to cut metal." The current issue describes the modifications that were made...

I think is just one example of SS not understanding the market. Nothing frosts me more than having to adjust my outfeed table every time I raise or lower my blade height, tilt my table or move the carriage to better if for the wood or something. I would buy a outfeed table that adjusted with my tabl...

Ed from Idaho wrote: 1) When you consider quality, access to parts, ease of maintenance, customer support, are you really buying equivalent value? I add up your stand alones (not counting the last three) and I come up with nearly 3 grand. Your are almost at the cost of the new SS and you have likely...

I'm not sure that a thousand bucks is the right price point for a model, but every time I've read through these types of discussions about ShopSmith, everyone seems to skirt around the product price issue, yet it's one that I don't think will go away. I really hate to be the pessimist, as I've got a...

It's not only a matter of miter bar width, but also the distance between the slots on the table and the blade that cause compatibility issues. Because of ShopSmith's table size, their miter slots are somewhat closer to the blade than the miter slots for most table saws. Woodhaven once offered, and a...

One item that I haven't yet seen, reading through this thread, is helping ShopSmith establish price points that their equipment should sell at and then let ShopSmith figure out how they can manufacture a product to those price points. Two days ago, we were around the Dayton area and decided to stop ...