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If the quill moves freely when not drilling/boring, the likely culprit is a dull drill bit or exceptionally hard wood. If the quill is binding even when you just try to advance it without drilling/boring then that suggests to me it is time to remove and inspect the quill to make sure there are no bu...

That is a thing of beauty (I love sapele)! I think you are right that no one has ever shown a vise (of any kind) directly mounted in the headrest. How stable is the Shopsmith when using your Moxon vise to plane? Any tendency to tip? I would imagine it might get tippy if trying to plane a longer boar...

Excellent tip! I tried long miters on ply on my 520 when I was trying to make the carcass for a long box and I was unable to get the tight joint I was looking for. This approach would have been far better.

Someone has edited my post. They added blue color to a portion of text and added text starting with "True" and a discussion about pricing JPW on ebay.

In the best of all worlds Shopsmith would continue to support the conventional headstock as well as the PowerPro (and every other tool it ever sold). But a lot of folks on this forum have squealed at the prices of certain repair parts coming from Shopsmith and have gone elsewhere to find them. True....

Woodcraft has a very good description of how a jointer works and how it can be used to straighten a board , flatten it or square an edge. you can see it at the link below. https://www.woodcraft.com/blogs/cabinetry-furniture-making/jointer-fundamentals I don't like the advice this guy gives about ha...

Again, I don't own and am no expert on Shopsmith planers, but isn't their a separate feed motor? Is that potentially a source of the problem?

Yep, that would explain why waxing helped.(nothing to do with pp loading).

JPG wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 12:20 pm To me, bogged down and stopped are the same thing. Slight speed variation is normal even with a digitally controlled stepping motor.

Agree re bogged down and stopped. Is that not what the OP is referring to? Or is this some minor speed fluctuation under varying loads?

I don't own either the Power Pro or the Shopsmith-mounted planer. But I'd have thought the Power Pro would have enough horsepower and torque to snap the plastic power coupler to the planer before the Power Pro itself bogged down. I have occasionally had issues with my DW735 planer where I tried to p...

JPG wrote: ↑Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:56 pm Some discontinued tool would be nice.

I agree that could be more interesting than just a change in color. But I suspect the cost of resurrecting discontinued tools would be prohibitive.