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Ah, very good advice. Thanks, David.

Excellent! Thanks to all of you for your responses! Will work on reassembling it tonight…

Wonderful! Thank you so much, John; your reassurance gives me the confidence I need to punch it out. Now off to the hardware store with it to find a punch that fits... Question: once I've punched it out, will the roll pin be reusable, or will I need to buy a new one of those? I would think I could j...

Trusting that I'm not the only person that this has ever happened to... I dropped my rip fence on my Mark 7 (arrgghh!!) and it landed perfectly badly - right on the top locking lever, which broke off. $400 for a new rip fence? Ouch! Looking at the blow-up diagram of the rip fence, it looks like the ...

When I set up my Shopsmith Mark 7 in drill press mode, the table doesn't lock securely. A moderate amount of pressure moves is, even though I have locked it with the lever. I thought at first that the lever was like the table-tilt lever, where I would pull it out and get a new "grip" on th...

Is there anyone in the east Phoenix area that is willing to earn some bucks by giving me a personal tutorial on how to change, tighten, and generally use the Shopsmith Mark 7? Video tutorials are great, but I'm wasting a lot of time by not knowing how to make what I'm sure are very basic adjustments...