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I know there are some other Festool users here so hoping to get some help. I went to use my TS 55 track saw today and it wouldn't start. Not a sound. I bought this new probably 6 years ago but it has been very, very lightly used. Never dropped. Last time I used it, it purred like a kitten. Put it aw...

Steve, Thank you for sharing this information with us. If there is an on-line obituary, please post a link to it here so we can read about the rest of Charlese's life. I never met your Dad in person, but he truly was an inspiration and much beloved member of the Shopsmith Forum family. He had a prod...

Really like the design and the execution! Nice job!

I'll try to watch those videos this evening -- they look interesting. But in the meantime, this general subject was brought up almost 10 years ago, by a guy who wanted to mount a cyclone sideways in the dust-collection compartment of an old Mark VII. Per his request, I tested my ordinary Dust Deput...

I feel like most of us have at least one arbor with a loose screw. Usual solution is a different screw.

Nice John!

Excellent!

US patents expire 20 years (or less, in certain cases) after their application date (not issuance date). Should SawStop's original patents not be expired by now? No doubt they have others, but those would almost certainly contain claims related to secondary/detail issues, which cannot extend the pr...

Really interesting video discussing how replacing bearings on an old Mark V and a NEW Mark 7 reduced quill runout (retracted) to zero. Maybe it is a worn bearing issue??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFFYw29yV4

The outfeed table obviously is immobile. I guess I'd set up the straight edge on the outfeed table and work on shimming the infeed table co planar. "We prefer to shim the outfeed table, because its adjustment range is very small, but if your jointer has a fixed outfeed table, you have no choice...