Shopsmith Forums

I took the fan sheave off today. The cup set screw was loose but to be sure I used the Rube Goldberg approach installed a washer put some thread tightener on the set screw and the Mark V is running great. I am doing the alignment now then setting up to do some lathe work. Thanks for all the help. Th...

The Rube Goldberg idea sounds like a plan to me. I will post a msg. once I see what I can do tomorrow. That temp fix sounds like it would work.

Thank you for the reply. I was going to take the motor off tomorrow and see what there is to see I was worried when I saw the rivets. I will see what can be done then. Thanks again.

I just changed belts on a used Mark V every thing related to that seems OK. I just bought the machine used and it was noisy and with the age I figuared it couldn't hurt to take it apart clean it and change the belts. Easy enough. Here is the problem the fan sheave is rubbing on the sheet metal fan c...

Never has that quote been more true. You don't know how thankful I am. New user btw. I am going to change the belts soon that should be fun. Boy am I every glad I asked you all for help. I almost took a pry bar to my Greenie's nameplate. I took some pictures of the Gray in case anyone else is wonder...