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Question about the preferred wax. I don’t have paste wax on hand, but I have a microcrystalline renaissance wax I used on the sliding components (rails tables after I cleaned them etc) it seems like it’s an equivalent product to the preferred “Johnson’s paste wax” it’s a wax with a solvent that I be...

Whatsa "squirrel cone"? Where red tree squirrels sit and eat their pine/spruce/conifer cones habitually, they will do this generation after generation and make huge piles called “middens” I’ll attach a picture. It’s pretty common out west and in Alaska, not sure about other areas of the n...

It’s cleaning up nicely, it was in a shed covered with many generations of squirrel cones and other unknown material so lots of scrubbing has been in order. I polished the tubes today, and made sure they were all seated and tightened down at the stand legs, and adjusted the fence with a micrometer. ...

Proof of existence and authenticity is now posted, the serial number indicates a build date of March 1983.

[/img] Ignore the posts above regarding the 510/520 table mounting holes. It appears you have a 500. I hope you have those set screws on both sides of the fence backed out of the way(removed is better while aligning). We ARE dealing with a Shopsmith and NOT a clone? A pix of the entire machine will...

I do have the manuals for most of it. It’s a mildly daunting enough task to get through them. I’m trying to just take manageable bites out of the material. One thing that I noticed today while fiddling around with the system is that both the blade and the table significantly shift when the tube clam...

“That extra wooden device is interesting though. I assume that was intended to improve table stability, and I would assume you've made sure that wasn't a factor in the alignment either” That is just a photo I grabbed off the internet, since I’ve been negligent in taking my own pictures. So the brace...

Well I’ve got the lathe pieces accounted for and am working on aligning the table. It appears I have a unit from 1983. model in What I’m running into is the 4 bolts that hold the table when loosened and rotating the table to try and get it parallel to the blade, it comes close, but I’d say 4 thousa...

I tried adjusting it per the manual, but there isn’t enough play in the brackets to get it perfectly inline with the blade. I’m thinking of lightly filing a little bit of material out of the bolt holes to give it rotation room. Something might have been slightly tweaked over the years….its only 41 ...

I think this is going to be a phenomenal tool in my shop, I did a little turning with the lathe and made a crude pen blank out of some birch for a marking knife blade I had laying around. It took a lot of video watching to really wrap my brain around the capabilities of what the darn things can do. ...