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- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
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Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:56 am
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
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Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:53 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
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Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
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. ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5564
Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
Proof of existence and authenticity is now posted, the serial number indicates a build date of March 1983.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 1:05 am
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
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Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
[/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...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:58 am
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
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Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:14 am
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
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Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
“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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5564
Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5564
Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
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 ...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: Maintenance and Repair
- Topic: Dragged out a shopsmith
- Replies: 32
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Re: Dragged out a shopsmith
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. ...