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[quote="wa2crk"]Huff]Thanks for the heads up. I remember thinking it odd that I lost about 1/4" of insulation on one of the wires when I removed the connector from the toggle switch with some needle nose pliers. I was planning on shrink wrapping it before putting it back in service, but I'll be sure ...

I went ahead and removed the drive sleeve assembly in order to clean it all up.

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I also removed the quill housing assembly.

http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o155/Huffheinz/Woodworking/Shopsmith/IMAG0118.jpg ...

Thanks for the explanation JPG. I wasn't aware that the bushing was cast into the control sheave and the bearing with the button snout was pressed into that bushing.

I had a very productive evening of disassembly and clean up. I stripped everything off of the headstock except for the spring loaded ...

Thanks for the feedback, Bill.

I know that the control sheave button was spinning freely on the end of the idler shaft. I'm pretty sure (but I'll double check when I get home) that the little nub seen in the picture is the attachment point of the quadrant leaf to the quadrant itself. Near as I can ...

Hey everyone,

My wife has given me her blessing to set up a woodworking shop so I can build her a scrapbooking center. When I told my old man, who is a woodworker, about the project he said that I could have his 1983 Shopsmith that has been sitting idle in the storage side of the shop since the mid ...