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Thanks, for the clarification. As it turns out, I had not filed the worm gear or the quadrant. I'll try that now.

Bill

Success! JPG, I followed your advice and bent the legs of the pork chop to try to make the alignment better. The gears look like they align better, but the force required to turn the speed control handle is still not as uniform as I think it should be. It turns easily thru about half the range and t...

Now that the holidays are pretty much over, I've got some questions regarding the speed control. I purchased a new pork chop quadrant while maintaining the remainder of the control that came with the used SS. I did incorporate Bill Mayo's mod that replaces the quadrant pin with a small bolt with a n...

I think I got it now. It's not that I haven't used the search function, but I'm finding that old age memory problems cause me problems sometime. I have gotten a lot of information in less than a week, thanks to you and other helpful members on the forum. Please don't think I'm being a wise guy in my...

Could be that replacing the poly-v will prove to be a big hassle, but I thought I'd try while I was "inside" and had the "operating room" set up. All of the speed controller out, and standing upright and almost "naked". It may be the shaft will be too stubborn and I wil...

To the first responders who were kind enough to help -- thanks! Sorry, about not filling out more details of location, etc. Shoulda done that early on, but I'm getting more and more remiss about doing the things I should do and doing 'em in a timely mannner. :confused: The Shopsmith is a bit complic...

Hi Everyone, This is my first post on the forum (although, actually the third, but the other two didn't show up) I've had that problem on another forum powered by vBulletin so maybe it's a glitch in the software. Anyway, if this message appears more than once, it's beyond my humble attempts. I tried...