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I'm starting to suspect someone put the wrong drive belt on. If I adjust the speed dial to show "fast" at 5200 rpm, the slowest I can get it to go is 750-ish which is around C on the dial. If I adjust the dial to show "slow" at that slowest achievable speed of 750 rpm, it's hitti...

Good day, I'm relatively new to Shopsmith. I got a Mark V Model 500 from my great uncle and I've been slowly working at getting everything working well. The one thing that has stumped me is I can't seem to get the speed adjustment dialed in. I have a laser tachometer and I can set the high rpm on th...