RCTaylor wrote
So today I bought my first Shopsmith. I did a little research over the last week and now I have a few questions before I dig to far into upgrading/restoring. I know it’s a 1985 model (two years older than I am,) by the serial number chart on the mothership’s website. What I can’t seem to figure out is if it’s a 510 or just a 500. I’d like to update the table/fence to the 520 and I’m still on the fence about a double tilt/Mark 7 upgrade. Also, it came with a 6 inch jointer... I know it’s not an real SS jointer, but I’d like to know where it did come from in order to get replacement knives. Any help and just general pointers or tips would be deeply appreciated! Thanks in advance!
I can’t get the photos to upload from my iPhone soooo... the serial number on my head unit is 204711.
I bought my 1st one yesterday, and joined in here just now lol. So, I take it you're using it for more of an actual carpentry station than a lathe? Of so, what kinda turning stuff do you have that you'd trade for all the regular carpentry stuff I have? I've got the small table, the miter clamp handle, a table saw blade and you can have the arbor to, a saw table fence (id like to keep the adjustable table but the fence is yours) and all the books that I don't need and would love to trade them for a tool rest post and tool rest arm (just the post ill build the tools myself, tailstock, and if you had a 4 inch chuck I'd toss you the big part of the table to, js. I got mine yesterday and when I got it home I realized I was missing the dang post and tailstock so now I've got a toy I cant play with cause I have a box full of brand new literally never been used turning tools and nothing to rest them on or a to hold the other end of a piece of wood up lol. Thing is in great condition tho, looks and sounds brand new!! Got it off this girl yesterday thats had it in her basement since 94 when her dad died and left her the house. He bought it new, bought it in 80/81 and made all kinds of stuff around the house but never took it out of the basement and only did light kitchen and living room type stuff till he decided he wanted to learn how to use the lathe aspect of it. Bought a set of ss lathe tools and a pack of ss drill bits in 94 and dies out of nowhere like the next day she said, then a few months later her mom goes to and nobody had been back down there since. So from 94 till yesterday its sat in the dark waiting on me to find out it was there and tell her that nothing that cool should be lonely sitting in the dark when it could be making someone happy playing with it. I gave her $300 and a guarantee that there's not a dad on earth or in heaven that would want their cool toy left and forgotten in a basement forever when it could pay this months light bill, and make some other dad grin ear to ear playing with it lol. I know as a dad myself, I wouldn't want my neat stuff left to ruin over pure sentiment. So now I'm tryn to getter spinnen spinnen spinnen!!!
