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@ charlese no insult taken at all... I'm really just learning how to do all this stuff, and any advise is well appreciated. I used to work on this machine 15 years ago, and much of what my father showed me has been forgotten over time. I've been doing research... reading books and watching videos on...

just went through and adjusted everything on the ss (even cleaned out and oiled the inside of the headstock, not just the jointer). the quandrant on the jointer is now sitting lower than the table. I'm getting the hang of jointing things now, although i think i'm putting too much pressure on the pie...

my quandrant casting looks almost the same as dusty's. that bending actually allows my fence to lift off the table vertically. it seems like this might be from having the outfeed table higher than the infeed, because the fence actually comes into contact with the outfeed table whereas it's attached ...

I'm 23 years old. As long as I can remember my dad had had his Mark V. I remember making pinewood derby cars with it for boy scouts. Sadly, because of sporadic interest in woodworking as a child (and probably safety concerns from my dad), I never really learned a whole lot about the machine, and it ...