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I for one am very grateful. I look at my disassembled Shopsmith and think that if it weren't for you folks I'd be up a bad creek. So, thin oil and Johnson's wax. I can do that. What do I wax and what do I lube? #3 philips head -- very helpful. Any advice on a machinist checking out/fixing the bearin...

No apparent rust. I got the quill off. Used padded vice grips. Thanks. Now it's all disassembled. The power cord was cracked, so I picked up a new one (but I forgot to buy the thing that stabilizes it in the sheet metal). The bearings on the Drive Sleeve Assembly are bad, so can I take this to a mac...

I'll order one.

Another question: once I have it disassembled and cleaned, what do I lube (wax?) it with? And what do I need to lube? (The sawdust session talks about lacquer on the metal to stave off rust but that's it.)

Let me add that I didn't forget to back the setscrew out, and, curiously, my shopsmith doesn't have a long handle thing -- just a huge wingnut on the quill backer thing (and another huge wingnut on the other side).

Hi folks. It's a mid-'50s shopsmith, old enough to have the hole behind the plate for maintenance. Green. I watched the sawdust videos and learned how to take it apart, but I can't "pop" the quill out like he does. I pulled that springy ring thing out the other side, extended the quill as ...

Do the motors on these "bog down" like I read somewhere?

No. Sorry. Grey SS 1 was without bandsaw. He bought green SS w/ bandsaw. Then found grey SS 2 also w/ bandsaw. Liked it better than green. Bought it. Now wants to sell green.

The second grey one had all that, plus it was grey, which is why he bought it. So his first one was grey and without bandsaw.

Keeping it.

Thanks folks. Got the serial. It's a '56. No rust to speak of, no pitting, no corosion. The attachments are there but have not been used by the owner (he bought it for the bandsaw, but then found a grey one and liked it better). So what do you think? $350?