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Hudson,

I don't know if there has been anyone in Denver that has sent you a PM yet but, in the meantime, you could try adding some extra weight to your Shopsmith to see if the 35 pounds of weight of the Universal Lathe Tool Rest would benefit you in reducing the vibration problem you are having ...

Hello All-

I'm on the fence over whether or not to purchase the universal tool rest and was wondering if anyone in Denver Metro has one and would be willing to queue up an opportunity for me to try it out.

I've turned a couple of projects and I find there to be a lot of vibration in my turnings ...

I have the DC3300 hooked to the 4" port of a cabinet saw via a daisy chain of adapters. I was very skeptical that it would do the job considering that the cabinet saw suggested that it have a 400 cfm minimum. There area chips in the bottom of the cabinet but there never seems to be any dust in the ...

So, I'm reading through the planer manual - particularly the maintenance section discussing planer table alignment and chain tension. I was wondering if someone can enlighten me how failure to follow these instructions can "ruin" the machine. The admonishments in the manual are surprisingly firm and ...

Doug-
thanks for turning me onto the easy out. I had only ever seen the grabits. I ended up getting a set from sears and they did work on the three I had stripped.

I also discovered that I stopped stripping the Allen screws when I put down the Shopsmith 5/32 Allen key and switched to the bit that ...

What's an easy out? Is it like the grabit self extractor? The Grabit I used couldn't drill the head and wouldn't take a bite on the metal.

The case, motors, and table were all in good shape. Definately needed new knives though. Got my new toy home, checked alignmnts, and then started to remove one knife and stripped the Allen bolt on one of the retaining pins. Now it's in pieces and I'm VERY upset that I need a new cutterhead assy.

I just purchased a used pro planer. I was removing the blades to get them sharpened and several of the retaining screws were frozen.

They are now stripped out - rendering the whole cutter head useless. I've tried everything I have the tools for to remove the screws to no avail.

If you have a ...

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give them a try.

The current adapter seems to have to much slop and results in the chuck vibrating and wobbleing too much. It may improve with a dual set screw ala router bit chucks for the shopsmith, but right now it exacerbates my occassional catches (like all the time). I've bought some bolts and am going to see ...