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We have a number of new members asking great questions and providing their own input. I'm glad to see interest has picked back up.

Trever, If you are ordering through Mike Young the Drill Chuck would be the current one (upper right below), unless he is selling an older one from his own collection. The current Drill Chuck Shopsmith sells is different than the Jacobs 3326 Chuck although it looks similar. The picture below shows d...

I was just out in the shop and measured a set of Way and Bench Tubes from a 1957 Mark 5 that is disassembled. The wall thickness measures at about 0.125 so nearly the same as the one in the chart JPG recommended. My measuring could be off slightly.

Dusty said In all the years I have been on this forum I have not heard of a serious problem with "bent" tubes. I know of only one case of bent OEM Way Tubes on a Mark V. I met the owner of a wood shop near me who uses a Mark V in his production of custom pieces. He had replaced the Mark V ...

Shopsmith records have the Jointer changing to Larger Diameter Cutter Head in November 1990. From 1953 with the introduction of the Model 4E Jointer until 1990 there are lot of Jointers with the original Cutter Head Assembly. 1990 until now has a lot of Jointer with the Larger Diameter Cutter Head t...

As satisfying as I find restoring these Shopsmith tools is, they are great for making projects too.

delta2ul, Welcome to the Shopsmith Forum. JPG has given me my cue. Shopsmith Model 10ER serial number ER31380 was likely made in 1950 in the Eastern Plant as indicated by the ER prefix to the serial number. As you already understand there is not a lot of records as to when Model 10's were made. I ba...

Thirty8, Welcome to the Shopsmith Forum. If you refer to JPG's first post showing the parts diagram you are looking for some or all of the parts that are reference numbers 42 to 50 if I understand you correctly. As I said in my first post, all changes and upgrades can be added to older Magna/Shopsmi...

As you start to use your Shopsmith get into the habit of checking all the locks before turning on the motor. For example, you don't want to start cutting some stock on the Table Saw and have the Quill move because it wasn't locked. Something I have done. :o There are a number of locks to check and i...

That number, 00350785 engraved on the Quill is not a serial number. The actual serial number 350785 is from Oct. 1957, but it did not have the two zeros in the beginning of the number. You asked about a list of changes made to the Mark 5/V. The attached PDF is a list of a lot of the changes made thr...