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Hi, Bill - you may want to visit the local woodturners club. They will be able to answer your questions and provide training, if you need some. Be careful, woodturning is addictive.

https://charlestownewoodturners.org


Mike

Check to see if there is a GFCI outlet on the same circuit, and if it tripped. If that is the cause, try replacing that outlet with a hospital grade GFCI outlet. This solved a problem I was having with a variable speed DC lathe motor.

Mike

Sounds like the Stuart Batty 40/40 grind. Very popular grind but hard to do with a jig.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... 0+40+grind

Mike

New machines come with this tag:

viewtopic.php?t=19609&start=10

Mike

I have GFCI outlets in my garage. Neither the standard headstock nor the PowerPro tripped the GFCI, but I have a variable speed lathe that did. I switched the outlet to a hospital grade GFCI and that solved the problem.

Mike

Can someone point me to instructions on aligning the 520 table system? Oh, and I have one of those aluminum alignment tools...I just have no idea what to do with it.


There is a lot of helpful information on the shopsmith.com website - click on the Support tab and select Online Manuals.

https ...

My guess is that the circular mark was made by a lathe cup turning center.

Mike

The Mark V Alignment & Maintenance manual is also available to download:

https://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/man ... manual.pdf

Mike

Here are a couple of sources for high quality turning tools without handles:

https://thompsonlathetools.com

https://oneway.ca/products-category/turning-tools-handles/Mastercut%20Turning%20Tools

Don't know where you are, but you may be able to find the Oneway gouges at a woodworking store that ...

Here's quite a thread on the spacer rings:

viewtopic.php?p=68229#p68229

Mike