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My lightly used Mark 7. My intent in the beginning was to have a small compact shop. It now spans 1/2 of my basement and growing. I bought a Sawstop 36" PCS table saw, 8" jointer, 13" planner, 1964 Clausing drill press, built the router table, installed a CV1800 dust collection system, am building a ...

Not sure how I missed that, thanks Ed.

Hey Dick,

I've been down that route and it never really gets "loose" maybe just less stiff. For anyone with arthritis it would be damn near impossible. And the clearance at the LA end is all but touching but I can get both hands there to start it. Of course after my ER visit I'm way more cautious ...

And just for the record, I did call SS several days ago and spoke with a nice lady who was struggling to understand the issue. I was suppose to get a call from an engineer yesterday but she called back again just to go over the issue again. I sent them an email with both a link to this forum post as ...

The problem with this video is that he doesn't show the step that must be done before lifting the unit upright. That step is to raise it in the opposite position, release the piston from the LA, lower back down, secure the bolt again, and then lift as he does. That actually is a very important step ...

Facing the headstock the lift assist is mount to the far right. This is where it's designed to be installed and would be fully extended if you're in the drill press mode, which is what you need to do to release the piston before lifting in the opposite direction for say the shaper mode.

While this page doesn't do a thing for showing how stiff these knobs are it does show them full in/out where they stop being less stiff, if that makes sense. Not easy to turn but doable. See http://www.astral-imaging.com/shopsmith.htm
Mouse click on the image for the largest size and use your back ...

No, my knobs are nothing like that. It's one of two issues, either the threading on the cross arm is a mess or the base arm knob has thread issues. WD40 made little to no difference. From what I can see of the threads they look fine, clean and threaded cleanly. Everything is very tight, always has ...

Yes, both need a very firm grip and sometimes both hands. I did put some WD40 on them it helped just a bit. I'll call SS tomorrow for sure.

I wish mine were loose enough to be able to rotate with just finger pressure. The videos I've seen look like little effort is used. Maybe mine are cross threaded but these don't come all the way out so it's hard to believe. I'll give SS a call tomorrow. Thanks for the reply.