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My shopsmith was purchased May of '07 and I have a little less, probably around $5500, into all of it. This has been the first issue of any kind I've had with them. To go from that to 2 consecutive, almost comical failures in QC is what worries me. Based on the conversation I had with customer ...

I hate that my first post is something negative, but this recent experience has bothered me.

Last month I ordered a strip sander while they were on sale. On the first one, the machining on the frame(part 12) was so far out of tolerance that I could measure it with a ruler, about 2mm or .08 ...