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The switch was wired incorrectly. I have warned my wife to be extremely skeptical if I ever tell her I'm going to be doing electrical work around the house.

Anyway, I followed ...

To answer a few other questions - the power cord is the original that came with my Dad's Shopsmith that he's used for the last 30 years. It's in really good shape.

If a new power switch doesn't do the trick, my next stop will be the take the motor out and take it apart as much as I can to clean it ...

All right - I pulled the drive belt - still no go. For the record the motor is an Emerson C55DDR-2015. I can't believe it's anything too exotic since it's what came in my Dad's stock Shopsmith thirty years ago.

Now the twist - it's started blowing the breaker whether it's turned on or not, which ...

I just rebuilt my 1950's Greenie with the guts from my Father's 1980's era (he just upgraded to the digital controller). Replaced everything including the motor, sheaves, quill, speed adjuster and switch.

The rebuild went fine - everything is back together and I can rotate the works by hand with ...

I just picked up a beat up greenie for cheap. Its got several accessories (band saw, scroll saw) but is missing some vital parts for basic operation - most notably the worktable. I've got the lower part of the table, just not the table part. I'm also missing the extension table.

I'm wondering what ...