Dustydusty wrote:You seem to speak with authority, Ed, on these issues and maybe you are BUT
I suggest that you be very careful with your statements about the trunnions having been drilled incorrectly. There is tangible evidence that the front and rear trunnions were different AND some of us chose to redrill our rear trunnions BUT there has been no confirmation that we are to spec in having done so.
I recently posted comments stating that maybe my Centerline Problem was introduced to my Mark V as a direct result of the rear trunnion being redrilled.
I cannot confirm that now because I don't have any trunnions that are virgin. I just have to be careful when I do a complete table alignment that I don't reintroduce that mal-alignment.
Forgive me if I come off sounding like a know it all I didn't mean to appear that way.
As for the Trunions I think my original 510 upgrade papers said not to touch one bolt of the four I think it was the one we drilled.
I checked the trunions on my two main tables and if I remember correctly one hole in each was smaller than the other.
I thought in our trunion discussions Nick verified that all four holes should be the same size.
You said you drilled yours and it made alignment that very easy. So I drilled my one trunion making the smaller hole the same size as the other three.
On my second trunion set I drilled it not to enlarge the hole but to clean something from the 2 or three of the four holes.
I don't totally remember what all I did because if you remember the last trunion I drilled came out of my clamp and smack my thumb so hard I heard bells.
I still have problems with that thumb.
I think as of today I have one set of trunions where every hole is the exact same size ( they are on the main table I normally use) and I have set where three are one size and one is a size smaller.
As to quality and high standards I believe my Shopsmith 500 was built using the highest standards possible.
I believe my 510 upgrade was built quick and dirty
I believe my 520 upgrade once again displayed most of the quality I first found in my 500, the quality I thought was lost forever from my 510 upgrade experience.
Now in another thread we have a report of Customer Service contacting a customer to let them know the answer they first gave was incorrect and that they could order the needed part.
I do not believe there are many companies in the US or in the world today that would do this. I sure don't know any.
I think this shows Shopsmith as being a company that is doing everything they can to be a quality company with fantastic customer service. And I for one will put this as a huge big positive in my should or should I not upgrade to the PowerPro decision list.
