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Thank you for sharing your Shopsmith experiences! Great to hear these great stories!

I’ve always enjoyed wrenching on old machines and using them. I’m not sure if I’m more of a nuts and bolts guy or a sawdust maker. I always found the Shopsmith concept intriguing and I wanted a retirement project so I jumped on buying one when it became available locally. Now that I have one, I’m re...

I discovered that the plate I made interfered with tilting the table past about 25 degrees . . . so I trimmed it a bit as shown below. I don't think the table will quite tilt to 45 degrees now but I'm not sure it ever would. It can now tilt way past any angle that I could ever imagine using.

I discovered that the rear table trunnion cradle (part #514982) on my recently acquired 555220 Gray scroll saw was broken right down the middle. The design looks pretty fragile, so I would wager that this problem is not uncommon. The part is long since discontinued and the design of the teal unit is...

Well, I did get the hold-down part of the safety grip but not the rest of the SS miter gauge. I did get the oddball miter gauge shown in the photo along with a matching rip fence and rails from something else. In fact, I got quite a variety of extra duplicate parts along with a pile of identifiable ...

A big thank-you to everyone on this forum who helped me figure things out. As you probably know, a few weeks ago I bought what I was told was a 1982 Mk V Model 500 in good repair. . . . with a bandsaw, jointer, and scroll saw. The Mk V was partially disassembled and I was new to Shopsmith so I didn'...

I’ve mostly switched over to LED lighting and I’m mostly satisfied. I’ve had a few bulbs fail but not too many. The strangest problem I had was when I first put LED bulbs in my garage door opener. When the garage door opener lights were on, the remote controls in the cars had almost no range. When t...

Jacobs makes a repair kit for their original chucks. Replaces the innards. Thanks for the good information. I’ll keep that stored away for next time. A guy on eBay had an OEM chuck he claimed was “new open box” at a much lower cost than a new one from SS. I don’t have access to a press so out of fr...

I paid $650 for the 1982 Mk V that had been upgraded to a 510. It included a jointer, a bandsaw, a gray scroll saw, blades, arbors, sanding disc, tailstock, lathe parts, push blocks, etc. It was being sold by a guy for an elderly friend who had moved into assisted living. It wasn’t the greatest barg...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I’m getting a thorough education on repair and maintenance. I even learned how to disassemble and reassemble a Jacobs drill chuck. I used to build a bit of furniture a couple of decades back but got away from it. Now that I’m retired, I’m putting together another (more com...