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Yep, Gunny Leroy Jethro Gibbs found one in a pawn shop and said it was "a real workhorse" and worth every dime. The show ended with it in his basement! Build on! K:)

Thanks, and just like those shop vacs, I'm sucking up everything I can about the Mark V. I saw someone's attachment cutting some long boards and I clearly saw they had three mitre extension tables, one on each table. That gave me about another 8 inches in front of the tablesaw blade; something I was ...

There are no door knobs in my Trailer, only drift wood handles sanded by the ocean and cut parallel. I put double panes in each side of my homemade wooden Bay window. Enjoy, K:)

Since I am a recent owner of an old but perfectly working Mark V 500, I have been lurking here, breakfast, lunch and dinner. As to many blade questions that I have seen about the SS 1 1/4 vs the rest, I bit the bullet for the SS crosscut blade right after having just bought a competitor blade for my ...

Thank you, I just did that and Idh posted some great work using these holes. I will make his brackets and improve mine. I was hoping that someone who had a manual from way back then really could tell us why Shopsmith put them there. Obviously Shopsmith put them there for a reason that they used to ...

My 1960-ish Mark V Serial SS11976 has the two slots for blades. Both mitre slots have bolt holes at the outfeed end about 1/2" from the end; they are fully braced from below so it was made this way not redrilled by the previous owner. What were they for? Yes, I am a recent dreamer whose dream came ...

Thank you ED in Tampa, I googled the Rigid Outfeed but found nothing; went to Home Depot's home page and found nothing; went to Home Depot two miles away and very dusty, beneath the lowest shelf, hidden behind a center display ... I barely found three of them. They looked like they were last year's ...