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Over at this thread http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showthread.htm?t=1201 That being said there is an upper limit for such an old machine vs finding a nice Mark V for not alot more money. Matt That sentence would be grounds for heating up the tar kettle and ripping open pillows on the "SS10ERu...

Nice press you got yourself however. I am sure you can find other applications for it other than SS bearing replacement They make a really great glue press... One can sometimes do the same job as a bunch of clamps on something like gluing heavy blocks together. The trouble is mine in in the other s...

Maybe but then some of us might want more detail. When this little boy (no longer a little boy) turns on the switch and the light doesn't come on - he thinks the only thing that could be wrong is "the switch on the wall". In another 5 or 10 years they won't let him change his own bulb wit...

Sanding is the least favorite part of woodworking for most folks. The level of difficulty involved in sanding a project may at times influence my choices of a project to build or at least cause me to slightly modify the original design to make sanding easier. One of my many motto's is "Rustic i...

Maybe an EE could modify the diagram here to show run windings and start windings complete with capacitor and centrifugal switch and then we would understand what is going on.:) I once read a story about a small boy who asked his father what made the light bulb on the ceiling work. The father gave ...

I am of the school of shopwork that says never measure if you can superimpose... I don't know the spacing of the tubes because I don't want to know. When I wanted to make a pair of supports that would clamp to the tubes I laid my piece of stock across the tubes and made sure it was square to them. T...

I bought one of these hospital overbed tables at a yard sale for about $3 and it makes a good outfeed table. http://www.rehabmart.com/category/Hospital_Bed_Tables.htm Mine does not tilt but one that would tilt could match the SS tilt table. You could easily clamp a wood fence to one to hold the lowe...

Here is a picture of a Mark IV.

http://www.craphound.com/images/steampunklathe.jpg

My wife and I operated our store for over 20 years before we retired from it about 1996 and moved it several times for various reasons. We just kept reinventing it when things would get tough. One observation we made was that each move or change would bring in a new batch of customers that had not k...

What does the "Carriage Stop Ring" stop? (ref. part 189) Go ahead.....lay it on me.....just don't be too abusive....but I have to ask because I just realized I don't recall seeing it on my Greenie. At least many greenies didn't have them. The "rubber" carriage stop ring stops th...