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You can pick up one of these motors on Amazon for less then $50. Looks like they come in a variety of sizes.

Here is a video I found on YouTube where “Frugal Fixer Spike” uses a hospital bed motor to lift the headstock while in drill press mode. I don’t know if he ever perfected it, but was an interesting idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71pFpkKqnuI

A quick search on EBay for “Shopsmith Mark VII Replacement Rack”
Brought up a seller with 3D printed replacement racks

Here is another Utah Sunset.

Here is a video by Jacob Anderson showing one way to replace the control sheave bearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm86LKc4ufg

You could try Google Drive

Jacob Anderson has a video about the AO smith 3/4 horsepower motor. After he retired he made all of his repair video available. For a complete list of all of his repair videos you can visit his web page. If you scroll down to the bottom you will find links to videos covering the other electric motor...

One of these threads might be helpful

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3561

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=21435

Or this video

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

You will find the information you are looking for here:

viewtopic.php?t=16113

When I got my new to me Shopsmith Model 500 I found the information in the threads started by JPG, mickyd, and everettdavis in the maintenance and repair section of the forum to be a virtual goldmine of information. The hours spent by these forum members and other like dusty, chapmanruss and so many...