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Any recommendations on a long straightedge, then? For a limited amount of use, is it important to spend $250 on a nice True-Trac system? Would an 8' board, run through a jointer and nailed to a piece of MDF, produce good results? I occurs to me that a piece of plywood might be less likely to bow ...

Considering that my inexperience probably puts me in sufficient danger already, I wouldn't want to compound it by removing the splitter and guard. I might end up getting a second extension table if it seems like it will be helpful. I had never thought of getting a second table and carriage. When ...

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately on the 10ER there doesn't seem to be any way to adjust the position of the splitter with respect to the back of the table. It can be tilted so that it stays vertical when table is tilted, but it is always aligned with the middle of the insert. I guess I will move ...

I am just getting started using the table saw feature of my ShopSmith 10ER. Although I have used it several times in the past for rough cuts, I am now making a bookcase that requires more precision. I have been rereading parts of Power Tool Woodworking for Everyone and am confused by instructions ...

Whoops, I got my terminology backwards. The first ShopSmith models were called 10 E and 10 ER, not ER10. A bit more information here and here.

Thank you very much. I thought those were the pegs that I needed. I had been reading through that section of the restoration thread, but I stopped just one or two posts before #415 and the critical picture. I've been hoping to get this thing running at least once before electrocuting myself. I ...

One doesn't need to be old to make those kinds of mistakes. At 27 without much shop experience, I probably have just enough time to go from being "inexperienced and stupid" directly to being "old and careless."

I know that at some point I learned not to try to screw on tiny nuts by hand, but ...

I recently was given my first ShopSmith, an ER10. I was given it in pieces and am now putting it back together, but the wires from the switch were disconnected from the motor and I am not sure how to reconnect them. When I opened up the cover plate I saw this:

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I do not think that is a ss screw. A similar hex socket head screw secures the belt guard, but it only has 1/2" of thread.

That surprises me as the head is exactly the same as the tie bar screw, besides the lack of the hex socket. The same shape, the same dimensions, the same straight knurling ...

Ok, things are starting to make sense. When I got it the upper screw in JPG's second picture, the one threaded into the tie bar with the allen wrench slot, was instead screwed into the head rest. It must have gotten switched around at some point. I was mistaken in identifying it as the the screw in ...