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Really good information on your post, Kevin, especially about the bearings and the sanding disk. It will go into a bucket of water tomorrow. Thank you! I've got too many irons in the fire right now (pretty much always), so I've been pulled away from the Shopsmith project for a while. As soon as I ca...

............Where could a person get new bearings, and is there a video that shows how to replace them? Where are the drive sleeve bearings in the machine? ............. As Roseanne Roseannadanna used to say on SNL, "Nevermind!" I found a really good video on YouTube by mkctools that show...

................As for the 0.015 play in the Spindle that may be corrected, as JPG suggested, by replacing the two bearings. I would also consider replacing the two Drive Sleeve Bearings. It is possible, but not as likely, that the Spindle is bent. One of my Model 10 restorations had a bent Spindle...

Wow! Great information! .............The only thing of note would be on page 5 ATTACHING MOTOR SWITCH which describes removing the bottom screw of the Name Plate. This is something that can be done with Version 7 Headstocks ONLY since there is no hole behind the Name Plate for earlier Headstock vers...

I cringe seeing all that neglect! I'm not in a big hurry, but now that I've started, I'd sure like to start using it. [Sigh!] The good news is that even these relatively neglected ones can be a diamond in the rough. I managed to get a pretty good looking result on my last 10ER, from a very similar ...

An arm mounts to the table support leg and the screw crank presses against a depression in the other end of the arm. Yep missing a piece. Or it is hiding elsewhere. FWIW, 8" is the original blade size. Hiding somewhere would be a good bet in my garage! I'll have to do a dedicated search for it...

Being from Missouri, I got curious about the two 9-inch table saw blades and mounted one on the machine, followed by the saw table which I had not mounted yet. Sure enough, the blade did not clear the opening in the table, so I took that all off the machine again. Neither of the 9-inch blades appear...

I got curious this evening and put an indicator on the working end of the spindle on my machine. With the belt still on and tensioned correctly, I got just over 0.001 inch of runout, and that could have been attributed to the clearance between the spindle end and the drive spur that was mounted on i...

They ain't Stainless steel! I recommend either evaporust or electrolysis rust removal. Both stop short of removing base metal(attacks ONLY the rust). Then minimal 'polishing'. Thanks, JPG! I'm going to have to invest in some Evapo-Rust for this and other projects, although I must admit that I'm int...

Just a few more notes for this preliminary session. I've got two Jacob's chucks and one key for both. One chuck is on a male Morse Taper, and the other is set up for quill spindle mounting. I've got what appear to be saw arbors that are made for the machine, but they both have 9-inch x 36-tooth blad...