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On my Mark V 500, the motor will occasionally "stall" when trying to start--maybe a dozen times in the ~45 years I've owned it. This happens when I've got the headstock in the vertical, drill press configuration. When the power switch is turned on the motor just hums and won't turn. Using ...

Update: the spacer arrived and is installed. The scrapping noise is gone. In case anyone is interested, the dimensions of the spacer are: ID 0.63" (15.6mm) OD 0.75" (19mm) length 0.4" (10.3mm). After being installed the average spacing between the fan sheave outer edge and the motor e...

I've read in other forum posts (in fact, posted by JPG ;-) that the spacing / gap should be 1/8" from the face of the motor end cover to the fan sheave outer edge--just a little more than enough to keep the fan sheave from rubbing against the motor end cover. I'll mic the spacer and the availab...

Hi Russ, and thanks for the information. My Mark V is serial number 83461, which appears to be manufacture date of March 1981.

I'm guessing that it's okay to use the spacer on my generation Mark V even though it appears that it didn't originally come with one.

Jim

I have a Shopsmith (with the small table) that I bought directly from Shopsmith about 45 years ago. So, I guess it's the Mark V model 500? I have been hearing a clicking / ticking / rubbing sound from the drive belt end of the headstock for quite a while, so I did a little research and discovered th...