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If you looked at my postings you will fail to see any reflection on anyone's character. I merely stated what I did in a somewhat similar circumstance as this is my makeup and upbringing. If I'm in such a minority here, in what to do in a situation like this, then I'm gone. I do not think Dave was m...

I'm sorry to have to delete my posts in this thread. According to a few messages I received that were not posted on the open forum, it seems some members were under the impression that the Shopsmith items my friend paid for where obtained under less than honorable circumstances. Rather than try to ...

joedw00 lives in Wichita. You might PM him.

BIL bought one. We could not get it to do any of the cuts he wanted.(Craft type cuts)

He took it back and bought a jigsaw and band saw.

I'm nearly speechless! Not something which happens often. On Nov. 18th I called CS and placed an order for a DIY PowerPro upgrade kit. Just wanted to do my part in making sure Shopmith stays in business. Got the normal warning that there could be a 2 to 4 week delay in shipment. Can you guess where...

Besides the Sawdust Sessions you might want to take a look at this link. Several good points for new user.

http://shopsmith.net/forums/showthread.htm?t=7092

Something Rick Davis always said in his classes was to lower the infeed table lower than you wanted then raise it back up to where you wanted it. This was to prevent settling of the infeed table and taking more off than you wanted.

Don't know if this is true or not, but it works for me.

Our family uses VISA gift cards so that it can be used anyplace the recipient wants. These can be picked up at most checkouts and banks. There is no counting out cash for each person, just X number of $$ cards and distribute. Gary, you could make the wooden envelope.

Almost all strip out of phillips heads was solved for me several months ago when Home Depot had the Ryobi One + Drill & Impact Driver set on sale. The Impact Driver will drive 21/2" and 3" screws easily with no reaming of screw head. Was even able to remove some 4" screws that wer...

Even on days when temp hit high 90's my a/c has only been turned on five or six times this summer. The builders really did a great job of insulating. Now if the concrete folks had done as well and we hadn't had nearly an inch of rain two days in a row perhaps we wouldn't have been flooded twice. Th...