Dress Commutator with Shopsmith

Culprit · Post by **Culprit** » Sun Apr 28, 2013 2:14 pm

PS: Here's a picture of it all shined up and ready to go back to work.

frank81 · Post by **frank81** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:12 pm

[quote="Culprit"]What was the previous owner thinking?/QUOTE]

A few years ago, a friend of mine very wisely pointed out "If it wasn't for clueless previous owners, we couldn't afford as much cool stuff."

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 5:44 pm

frank81 wrote:
Culprit wrote:What was the previous owner thinking?/QUOTE]

A few years ago, a friend of mine very wisely pointed out "If it wasn't for clueless previous owners, we couldn't afford as much cool stuff."

INDEED!!!!!:D Just ask Tgamel!:rolleyes:

Culprit · Post by **Culprit** » Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:47 pm

frank81 wrote:
A few years ago, a friend of mine very wisely pointed out "If it wasn't for clueless previous owners, we couldn't afford as much cool stuff."

You know, you're absolutely right. I guess I should remember that I didn't actually pay any money for this 37 year old motorcycle, I traded for it.

skou · Post by **skou** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 3:44 am

JPG40504 wrote:Sounds like a knuckle buster to me!:D

Nope, no power here. Used the ER as a stand, and some emery cloth to polish the journals. Was the mains that were the worst, so they got polished.

You'd be surprised just how useful a Shopsmith is!

steve

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Apr 30, 2013 10:58 am

skou wrote:Nope, no power here. Used the ER as a stand, and some emery cloth to polish the journals. Was the mains that were the worst, so they got polished.

You'd be surprised just how useful a Shopsmith is!

steve

Chicken!!!!:D

skou · Post by **skou** » Wed May 01, 2013 1:18 am

JPG40504 wrote:Chicken!!!!:D

Power would have been OK for the main journals, but not the rod journals. And, it was the rod journals that needed more work.

I'd seen guys polish journals with emery cloth and use a lathe to run the crank, so I figured, let's use the ER for a holder. Oh, drive spur in the back end of the crank (flywheel end) and a dead center in the front end.

If I would need to do it again, I'd use the ER a second time.

steve

billmayo · Post by **billmayo** » Wed May 01, 2013 3:18 pm

I will say that the ability of the Shopsmith to do unique jobs, tasks, & projects is only limited by anyone's imagination and ideas. I have completed and started many unique projects using the Shopsmith and its headstock.

I was able to pick up a Ridgit 10" Professional table saw cabinet and assembly (100 pds) very cheap. I was able to make a conversion plate (took a few tries) to mount the 510 table on the cabinet and assembly with the tubes aligned to the extension table tubes. I mounted the cabinet on the Shopsmith way tubes using the planer clamps hold it. I used belts and a jack shaft for power. It really looked nice like it was made for the Shopsmith, a tiltable table saw blade with fixed table. I was able to make a few 90 & 45 degree cuts to prove it was working before I disassemblied it to clean and paint. Of course, I never took pictures of these projects. My Alzheimer struck at that time so this project is still under a tarp waiting for me maybe some day. I was in the process of mounting a Mark V headstock on a Power Station frame that the power head had been badly damaged during shipping. I was going to use one of the Total Shop 2 HP reversible motors I have. Still have all the Power Station parts somewhere. I have the parts from about a dozen projects stored that I started in the past 10 years but never got to finish. Never planned on having my health problems during that time. I really had a lot of fun times playing with the Shopsmith projects.

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