10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press

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Forda
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10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press

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I have just been getting my Shopsmith 10ER working and I set it up as a drill press. Checking the perpendicularity of the drill shaft to the table is not good. Hopefully the 1st picture will show the problem.
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The set square shows the mis-alignment to the drill bit and the blue arrow shows that the table is tilting compared to the casting.

This picture just shows the bottom of the table.
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Any ideas how I can correct this.

Thanks in advance.
Joe
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Re: 10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press

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Rear trunion pivot upside down.
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Re: 10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press

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JPG wrote:Rear trunion pivot upside down.
Magna got another one. :D We have all done that once. It is just un-intuitive the correct way for some reason.
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Re: 10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press

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Joe,

Don't feel bad for putting the rear trunnion on upside down. We recently had that discussion in another thread and I had to admit I had done it again with my 20th Model 10 restoration just days before. Just putting it back together on auto pilot I guess. It really seems like it should go on the way you did it but no. :o
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Re: 10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press

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Ahhhh, thanks so much! I could not figure out what was wrong. I thought initially, perhaps the main casting should be flipped, but the way I had it seemed to match the manuals. I would have never got that. Now I know what a trunion is!

Joe
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