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Twelve years ago I installed a propane-fired 4-inch diameter tubular radiant heater (Detroit Radiant) on the ceiling in my new shop (for my custom closet-shelving business and my personal woodworking—with Shopsmith). It's quiet, makes no blowing, dusty air (intake and exhaust are to outside air), it ...

I think the tabs have two purposes.
Minor- a little bit of support for a workpiece.
Major- a safety stop for spinning blades. With the teeth wider than the body of the blade, the teeth would chew into the insert before the body of the blade contacted the side of the opening.
I believe filing off ...

Hope we didn't hijack this thread, but good points (I've been wondering about for a while) have been made about the non-essential value of the special sanding disk insert. Thanks.

I just checked (on my 510, upgraded to 520) to see if the table could be lowered further, say with the sanding disk table insert installed and with the quill fully extended, to expose more sanding surface, compared with the standard saw insert in place.

I found that the table cannot be lowered any ...

Doesn't the standard 510/520 saw-blade table insert work just as well for disk sanding as the special disk-sanding insert?

I realize that the small tabs near the center of the saw insert will prevent getting the disk as close to the edge of the slot. For those using the saw insert for sanding, is ...

Thanks Chuck. I don't yet have the strip sander but may be motivated to buy one soon to add to my shop and Shopsmith capabilities .

Thanks for your reply, Ed. So strip sander sharpening and turning on a single Shopsmith might be most useful, or quickest and easiest, when turning bowls or other "facework" projects that don't need the tailstock, so the PowerPro headstock could stay attached to the sander and run in reverse, if ...

Does the Strip Sander need to be run in reverse (belt moving upward) for sharpening tools? If so, does anyone use it mounted to the left of the headstock with the PowerPro running in reverse, say for sharpening lathe tools?