5/8 arbor old style vs new

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 7:45 am

dusty wrote:I don't understand the need to trade the arbor. There are a lot of other 5/8" blades available on the market. But that is OKAY. There are a lot of things that I don't understand.

Methinks Paul's 'current' Shopsmith plywood blade has a 1 1/4" hole!;)

See #4

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:30 am

[quote="JPG40504"]Methinks Paul's 'current' Shopsmith plywood blade has a 1 1/4" hole!]Yes, you may be right but I still don't understand. Arbors are one of those items that you can not have too many of. I'd buy a 5/8" arbor and keep the plywood blade and arbor. Then, the next time I want to cut up some junk plywood, I would not have to use a good blade.

Hey, I thought I was the frugal one!:rolleyes:

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:46 pm

dusty wrote:Yes, you may be right but I still don't understand. Arbors are one of those items that you can not have too many of. I'd buy a 5/8" arbor and keep the plywood blade and arbor. Then, the next time I want to cut up some junk plywood, I would not have to use a good blade.

Hey, I thought I was the frugal one!:rolleyes:

Me too!;)

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:30 am

dusty wrote:I don't understand the need to trade the arbor. There are a lot of other 5/8" blades available on the market. But that is OKAY. There are a lot of things that I don't understand.

My Shopsmith plywood blade has a 1 1/4" hole and I have a 510/520 version 1 1/4" arbor, my new carbide plywood blade has a 5/8" arbor hole. I have one arbor for every blade.

A new arbor with shipping is $50, shipping of a blade and arbor is <$10 and someone gets a fair blade and excellent arbor.

If shipping were more reasonable I would just get a new arbor or if Shopsmith had a carbide plywood blade I would have purchased theirs.

benush26 · Post by **benush26** » Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:24 am

paulmcohen wrote:My Shopsmith plywood blade has a 1 1/4" hole and I have a 510/520 version 1 1/4" arbor, my new carbide plywood blade has a 5/8" arbor hole. I have one arbor for every blade.

A new arbor with shipping is $50, shipping of a blade and arbor is <$10 and someone gets a fair blade and excellent arbor.

If shipping were more reasonable I would just get a new arbor or if Shopsmith had a carbide plywood blade I would have purchased theirs.

You might want to check shipping again. The arbor would ship separately to Montana for 8.49 so the total is a shade over $40 and I don't presume Oregon would be that much more. I had other things that were on sale Small Lathe Chisels and jointer dust retro fit kit (I like the 15% off!) and so the shipping for all the items was less than $14. Maybe shipping has dropped since you last checked.

I don't know if ShopSmith will put arbors on sale, but if they do I'll probably buy a couple, because I really like Dusty's idea of having an arbor for each blade. At at least one on each of the 4 or so that I will use the most. After blowing my entire budget (plus some!!) on acquiring 3 ShopSmiths, until I clean up and sell two along with some of the extras that I got when buying the units, some of the things I would like to have will have to wait. I understand that I "could" have utilized an existing older arbor for non-ShopSmith blades, by fiddling with the quill feed,

but I guess I am getting too old and adjust priorities to fit enjoyment.

But then that's just me.

Just curious, have you made your offer on other ShopSmith user sites?

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 1:10 am

benush26 wrote: Just curious, have you made your offer on other ShopSmith user sites?

Only here I don't use other sites.