Need an Older Mark V to Star in Sawdust Sessions

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 11:51 pm

Folks, we found our star -- a "brownie" or a "goldie" or whatever -- in working condition with a few accessories. Hopefully, it will ship to us this week and we'll have it to show on the next Sawdust Session. Thanks for all your help and your leads; Drew and I had a lot of fun chasing them down. I certainly understand Paul's sentiments: "I have never seen such junk in my life." It's not just in Oregon, Paul.

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Not sure what the V-belt is all about. Have a feeling that wandered over from another tool.

With all good wishes,

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:22 am

Nick wrote:Folks, we found our star -- a "brownie" or a "goldie" or whatever -- in working condition with a few accessories. Hopefully, it will ship to us this week and we'll have it to show on the next Sawdust Session. Thanks for all your help and your leads]"I have never seen such junk in my life."[/I] It's not just in Oregon, Paul.

Not sure what the V-belt is all about. Have a feeling that wandered over from another tool.

With all good wishes,

That power cord looks like a fire waiting to happen:eek:

ericolson · Post by **ericolson** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:37 am

Paul, I'd jump all over that 10ER! It's got the VERY hard to find jointer headstock rest on the left side in the photo.

ericolson · Post by **ericolson** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:39 am

Nick wrote:Folks, we found our star -- a "brownie" or a "goldie" or whatever -- in working condition with a few accessories. Hopefully, it will ship to us this week and we'll have it to show on the next Sawdust Session. Thanks for all your help and your leads]"I have never seen such junk in my life."[/I] It's not just in Oregon, Paul.

Nick;

Are you planning on repainting it the modern SS gray? I hope you keep it in the Gold (Brown) color scheme as there aren't a whole lot of them out there.

ldh · Post by **ldh** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:45 am

Nick,
It would be nice to know the man hours and material cost for the rebuild as you proceed. I know from an earlier post that yours is slave labor so no cost of labor need be added.
ldh

billmayo · Post by **billmayo** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:11 am

I would guess that it is a 1 1/8 HP poly-v drive Shopsmith. Close? Since I find most of my Shopsmiths in back yards, porches and barns, this one looks a lot better than what I find. You can still see the color of the original paint. I am looking forward to these Sawdust sessions as we are never too old to learn new techniques and methods for restoring the Shopsmiths. I like to say that the old Timex commercial "Takes a licking but keeps on ticking" also applys to Shopsmiths.

greitz · Post by **greitz** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:27 pm

Maybe "Takes a mauling but keeps on sawing" would be more accurate?

Congrats on your find, Nick!

Gary

johnm · Post by **johnm** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:08 pm

It's got better paint on it than the one I purchased

On mine I just noticed the other day that the previous owner must have gotten a little carried away with using the quill feed to move the sanding disk...he took out a bit of the edge of the table! Nothing like battle scars to show that a machine was loved...

pinkiewerewolf · Post by **pinkiewerewolf** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 5:08 pm

[quote="ericolson"]Nick]
+1, the two-tone Gold (Brown) is a neat change.
I bought the shorty chasis that I have because (most of) it is that color...
I repeat, most of it. LOL (Headstock is gray, tube connector is green, the partridge family shorty):D
I'll be watching this with great enthusiasm since I want to fix up both of my old units.