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Good Day and just a short note to you all. Today our Prov. in Canada is celebrating 50 years of medicare. If you live in the slums, or in a big house any where in our Prov. here in Canada, your hospital bill is PAID, your visit to the doctors office is paid. you can just walk out the door. We have a...

I have a napkin drawing for a GE motor and switch, but the motor was burned out when I got this machine. So I installed a newer motor in it, forward only, I have been talking to Bill Mayo about this mark 7 motor and am going to try a different approch this weekend. I tried to send the drawing to you...

Time to get out of here. John I really enjoyed your blog, wood working is a wonderful hobby, and you are doing a great job at this, every woodworking machine will do what you want it to do. Good people, good luck with your SS machines have fun, and enjoy them. Cheers Doug

Many Thanks ED, I wonder what the jack would do, and from the pictures this made me more curious. Im with you now. Again Thanks. Doug

Good morning, May I ask, why the bottle Jack. Am I missing something here ??? I went out and looked at my S.S. and put it in drill mode ??? Sorry, I'm slow, could someone expain this to me. I did not measure to see if it was 90 degree's, is this why the reason [or support?] for using the jack??? Man...

Scottc, there goes the magazine issue, Gentlemen can you just not get the magazine for the articles that are in it, If there is something of interest in the magazine, buy it. to Heck with the advertising, I even find this stuff interesting sometimes. Next, why does the word Shopsmith cause so many p...

Tom, I enjoyed the dust collection info., Well do I remember the time and money spent on this subject of collecting shavings and some dust. I was just wondering how many fellow SS people pick up on the air cleaner that was on your ceiling. I did not mind walking around in shavings. or looking for a ...

Yes, just make sure that you get the tubes that are used to set the Bandsaw onto the main frame, that are ajustable. This allows you to adjust the BS left or right, in order to align up with the drive knuckle on the Shopsmith. The mark Vll is a good machine, I have that model also. I do not have a j...

Here are some pictures for you to see. I am not trying to start a Fight or anything, as this is for your info only, It took me 4 mins. to set up my home made fence, 3 7/8" at each end, no allowance for drift. I was not worried about the thickness of the cut. it turns out that it is just under 1...

Hi Paul, We did a lot of this, and used a Carbide lino knife, score it and snap it. We did all our arborite this way also. Or, use Doc's idea cut them with a table saw using a plywood blade [many many teeth] we cut all kinds of plastic , plexiglass, lextan, Just wear a face mask the blade throws a l...