520 Upgrade placed today.

[pinkiewerewolf]

I ripped several 14' 2X12s for my shelving project today and decided it was time for the upgrade.
It was a bit of a tussle even with my pretty Lil helper and I decided that safety and accuracy were worth the cost.
I also added the extension table brackets to the order and the 5' connecting tubes along with a dado insert, some miter slot T-Nuts, a fence feather board, dial indicator, and the usual arbor upgrades.
If I left anything vital out please give me a heads up.
Hopefully assembly will go smoothly when the equipment shows up.

I don't know if this has happened to anyone else but I was having some difficulty using the online ordering system.
Strangely, (and I didn't catch it on the final order form) the site doubled some of my orders. It was doing this earlier when I was shopping and I took the items off at that time. I thought I had it taken care of but it snuck some more in after I let my guard down.
Since it is after hours I will be giving Shopsmith a call in the morning.
It is official now, I am a Shopsmith addict.

[chrispitude]

I ripped several 14' 2X12s for my shelving project today and decided it was time for the upgrade.
It was a bit of a tussle even with my pretty Lil helper and I decided that safety and accuracy were worth the cost.
I also added the extension table brackets to the order and the 5' connecting tubes along with a dado insert, some miter slot T-Nuts, a fence feather board, dial indicator, and the usual arbor upgrades.
If I left anything vital out please give me a heads up.

Hi John,

I know exactly where you're coming from, difficulties with awkward stock is what prompted me to upgrade too.

That sounds like quite a good list to get going. Nice call on the 5' tubes and the extension table brackets. Please keep us informed as things roll in, especially the big boxes!

For 14' 2x12s, I'm wondering if you'd want two additional support legs for the connecting tubes, since you'll have two 5' tubes and four shorties? I'd think you could rig up a pretty wide table arrangement with that. I'd need to go downstairs and ponder how best this could be done.

- Chris

[chrispitude]

Okay, here is one possible arrangement.

Put the headstock and main table towards the right side. Put the auxiliary table on the left side. Off the right side of the main table, hang the 5' tubes and put one floating table and a pair of support legs at the end of that. Off the left side of the auxiliary table, hang two shorty tubes and put the other floating table and the other pair of support legs at the end of that.

There's other arrangements too, but this should give you a starting point.

- Chris

[pinkiewerewolf]

Chris you have some good ideas there and Ithink I'll go with the advice.
The extension legs are a great idea as I could probably use the extra support on the bigger projects.
hehe, those boxes ARE Big!:eek:

[osx-addict]

When I placed my order, I had a single item that was listed twice.. I thought it was perhaps something I had done, but apparently not..

[pinkiewerewolf]

Yeah, I really don't have need for two dial indicators and three dado inserts... or do I?
I'm sure I'll get it worked out in the AM, but it might be something the web gurus at Shopsmith would need to keep an eye on.

[jma]

I've also had trouble ordering on the website. I went to take advantage of a sale that was going on few months ago, and ended up canceling the order after several attempts to create my "shopping list" failed. Items were duplicated, priced or totaled incorrectly, etc… and I ended up feeling very insecure about the whole process.

I know that SS is a small company these days, and that everyone there is busy, wears many hats, and so forth. But online retail sales, shopping carts, payment options… it’s old tech at this point, not rocket science. I keep “meaning to call”, but I hate the telephone… In spite of the market struggle, in my opinion this is one of those, “drop everything and fix it!” situations. If the SS sales portal worked like Amazon or countless others, I would be spending some serious money there…

Wait… could this be one of those “careful what you wish for” scenarios? J

[dusty]

While ordering online I have, on several occasions, experienced the doubling of quantities that has been mentioned here.

I sort of got use to it and I make certain that I check quantities before I finalize the order. If they came two for the price of one I might not complain but it doesn't work that way.

The problem seems to be that once you have entered a quantity to be ordered - if you leave the online order service and then return to it the original quantities are not disposed of. When the order is finally compiled, they are combined.

You get a chance to confirm your order before the order process is completed.

I'd like to enter an order to check this out but I won't. I've been restricted from ordering 'til the tax man is satisfied and I don't think SWMBO would buy the story - "I was just checking Shopsmith's Online Order System to see if it had a flaw".

[pinkiewerewolf]

I see what you're saying Dusty and that is why I am having a good attitude about this, I should have checked the final order, but I was kinda worn out after my shopping. ( and as I mentioned, I had deleted dups. several times during the process by that point) My bad for not catching it when I pushed the enter/pay button, still something SS should look into.
The only "wandering" that I did while shopping was to check the parts list and exploded illustrations. Maybe that is when things entered the cloning chamber?

[dusty]

I am not saying that Shopsmith has no responsibility for correcting this issue, Pinkie. If it is an issue. When this problem surfaced here on the forum, I got to thinking about past experiences and I do recall duplicate quantities on some of my order attempts. I don't know exactly how that came to be.

Thankfully, I caught them and was able to correct them. As has been shown here, that is not always the case. Some (hopefully very few) get placed with incorrect quantities.

I feel confident that Shopsmith would correct this, if brought to their attention in a timely manner. However, if the order gets shipped, I am not certain of what the outcome would be. The buyer may have to pay shipping on the returns.

Only a call, in realtime, to Shopsmith will answer this question.

Hopefully, Shopsmith will get wind of this phenomena and take some sort of action to determine whether their online purchase order software could be improved to reduce or eliminate the apparent problem.

In the meantime, it behoves everyone to check and double check their order before finalizing.

Opps......when I checked the quantities doubled. Now I have two Mark V 520s on backorder.