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I have a one bearing quill, can I add another bearing to it or do I have to change the whole quill assembly to make it a two bearing?

The end of the sheave has a nice crack in it that appears to spreading, probably 1/8" long and 1/16" wide now. I think that's what is causing the bearing to tweak out like that once the speed gets down. Sound plausible or is that just part of the problem and I'm looking at further repairs?
Also, am ...

high speed adjustment done, now it just catches sooner, according to the dial at least. I took a small vid maybe clear enough to show the problem. When it goes down to slow speed the bearing with the retaining loop looks to go cockeyed.

http://youtu.be/ZISaE7epnxE

dusty wrote:I think I read somewhere that you are still wet behind the ears. That would explain a lot.

Cute, but what, exactly, does that explain?

So I did. I attached a 8" metal grinding wheel on my dado 5/8" arbor, put the lathe tool rest on the other side and sharpened my axe to fine new bevel after using it to cut roots out of the ground from an annoying oleander bush. Revitalized my lathe tools too. Probably been 20 years since someone ...

oiled up an running smooth....but

now it won't go all the way down to A, slowest speed. Looks like the button bearing catches on the the little bolt in the arm. AND when i try to speed it all the way up, the sheave hits the arm, goes too far before the dial hits the highest speed.

am i really the youngest at 29? (turning 30 in a week)

thank you guys. all those sound like easy fixes, essentially clean the holy hell out of it, lube the holy hell out of it. Working on it tomorrow.

Any live in the Redding/Anderson area up in northern Cali that knows a thing or two about shopsmith's? Could always use some help.

I'm sold, I definitely want this sticker