Mark VII Rehabilitation

[fiatben]

I don't know if this is gloating, or admitting I have a problem.

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[dusty]

I don't know if this is gloating, or admitting I have a problem.

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I think it is obvious. You have a serious problem! You need to rid yourself of a bunch of cardboard boxes.

[camerio]

To me it is an Art exhibition and a working one to top it.
Beautiful works needs to be exhibited so it inspires us to do better.
And I agree with Dusty, it would make a better picture.
Congratulation on all your work of Art.
You deserve the award for a good and proud Shopsmith owner.

[JPG]

As for those tube sockets under the table, see if you can figger out how to make use of them with the right angled surfaces of the extension table.

[JPG]

Fergit the boxes.

How many of us can say our workshop has carpet!:D

[fiatben]

Fergit the boxes.

How many of us can say our workshop has carpet!:D

Well, the shop doubles as a garage to work on my convertibles and I learned a long time that old carpet is much more comfortable to lay on than rough concrete. Plus, things don't roll or bounce as far on carpet as they do on concrete (less chasing errant bolts & nuts)

The boxes are a product of my dad being on nightly dialysis. They are a great size to keep smaller projects in (such as a set of toy tractors for the grandsons, a wooden tongue drum, corral fence to go with the log sets I gave the grandsons for Christmas, etc. Thankfully, those boxes you see stacked are empty right now. These are poor man's drawers and shelves.

There are over 50 of them on the other side of the shop filled with old Fiat parts. Very convenient for stacking since they are all exactly the same size and heavy built.

[fiatben]

Just an update on the Mark VII. I sold it yesterday in a garage sale to a guy trying to outfit his new shop (30 x 40). I've given him the manuals that came with it but have copied them and will try to put them in a photobucket album soon (2.6 gb) for all to have access. I paid $200 and put a new power cord on it, then sold it for $150, but feel like it is going to a good home. So, if you guys see a guy named Billy show up on the forum griping about his good fortune in buying a Mark VII, that's him. Make him feel welcome.
I hated letting it go, but when you can't work in your shop because you're tripping over machinery, it is time to thin the herd. Still have to sell several more things to really free up space. And Christmas is just around the corner. Yep, feeling the stress already.....

[drdale]

Hello Fiat Ben,

A couple years back you mentioned you would put some old manual copies on Photobucket. Were you successful?

Dale

[SDSSmith]

I believe I have PDF's of the manual and parts list. My email is below, use it if you are interested in these.

[billmayo]

The Mark VII AO Smith motor have 6 wires coming out of the motor casing. The capacitor and start switch was still connected to one of the leads. I did a ohm reading on each set of leads for two motors which was the same. The one set going to the capacitor had 1 ohm, another set had 1 ohm and the third set had 6 ohm resistance. Now, I always found the start windings had twice or more resistance then the run windings. I believe that the motor will still start and run with the start and one run windings in parallel but I have to question what I found on these 2 motors. I did not find any references in my files as to what which set of wires goes to the start and run windings for the Mark VII AO Smith motor. Does anyone have any diagrams or material as to what wires are connected to the run and start windings? Thanks.