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Looks good! How well does the center-lift idea work?

JPG wrote:I cannot imagine HOW a planer would even mount on the power station.

I happened on this today (Ebay):

Sorry, answered my own question. The SN on the other VII is 410051.

The details I consider lower quality are on the younger machine, which hints at cost-cutting at Magna.

I'd still like to know whether anyone has done a serial-number chart for the VII.

Thanks for your indulgence!

I have two Mark VIIs, one numbered 405725. The other, which, from details like the table lock, seems to be from a different production era, has an item number rather than serial number on the grille plate: 5000 21. The '5000' is prestamped, only '21' is unique. Has anyone done a study of Mark VII nu...

OK, bad test, doh! I put the VII back together with the old belt (a nominal 51mm that's now about 49), and it's running at close to rpm spec. Then I tried the BSW belt again on the brownie. I imagine that thanks to a couple days' practice plus the assurance that the much wider belt is correct, the p...

You need to install the clip over the porkchop arm FIRST .... I'm pretty confident I'm doing what you describe, the standard procedure in the manual. I can get the belt onto both shafts, but only with both sheaves wide open , the motor sheave up against its spring limit and the idler sheave open be...

16 x 67.5 is VERY close to original SS design which was about 1 9/16 x 26.5. Indeed it is closer to anything else out there. ... It has been observed in the past that recent SS Inc belts are slightly narrower. I'm perfectly willing to accept that the spec numbers match. But in practice I can't get ...

I'm relatively confident that someone on this forum has posted something like this before, but for the benefit of newbies like me: It matters where you buy your belts. Sources clearly have different ideas on the belt specs, particularly the V-belt. Here's a comparison of two V-belts I bought via Eba...

With the Smiths and a small shop I don't think I can get much use out of the table, so I've put it up on Ebay if anyone's interested.

Thanks, @rechilcot, good tips!