factory test design

skou · Post by **skou** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:45 am

Without seeing the front side of the headstock, I'm going to GUESS, Mark VII.

I don't see the exposed belts, but that lump by the lower pulley, looks like the fan unit on the MkVII.

The lower frame, I need to see more pictures.

steve

skou · Post by **skou** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:50 am

One more guess.

Mark II on a different base?

Sorry, I don't see the 3 pulleys or the exposed belt. It's like nothing Model 10 I've ever seen. (With the exception of my little {kinda, he outweighs me by 50 pounds} brother's welded "bed frame rails" base.) But, we've since replaced that.

steve

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:33 am

skou wrote:One more guess.

Mark II on a different base? Mark 5 "B" casting.

Sorry, I don't see the 3 pulleys or the exposed belt. 3 step cone pulley on both main and motor shaft, belt on the center step. It's like nothing Model 10 I've ever seen. (With the exception of my little {kinda, he outweighs me by 50 pounds} brother's welded "bed frame rails" base.) But, we've since replaced that.

steve

'Dog house' obscures the motor pulley.

Vent plate has some extra screws.

Belt cover has extra screws towards the bottom.

Both end castings are stock top half of hinge base.

I am thinking a Mark 2 prototype maybe.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 1:46 am

Here you need not squint to see stuff.

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billmayo · Post by **billmayo** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 9:06 am

rottie wrote:I have an old shopsmith that I bought from an older gentleman years ago and he claimed it was an experimental one. Has anyone seen this frame design before?
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Can we get a picture of the other side of this Shopsmith? We need to see the speed control side. Maybe a picture from either end to see the base arms. Tjhanks.

idcook · Post by **idcook** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:38 am

JPG40504 wrote:Here you need not squint to see stuff.

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Holy Moley!!!!

I was all prepared to regard this as someone’s hoax of a contraption being passed off as a prototype. Now here I have to understand that we may be being introduced some kind of missing link ShopSmith.

(Of course the good news for me is that, this being perhaps the only one in existence, I won’t have to struggle with tamping down an urge to acquire one.)

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:43 am

idcook wrote:Holy Moley!!!!

I was all prepared to regard this as someone’s hoax of a contraption being passed off as a prototype. Now here I have to understand that we may be being introduced some kind of missing link ShopSmith.

(Of course the good news for me is that, this being perhaps the only one in existence, I won’t have to struggle with tamping down an urge to acquire one.)

Yer 'safe' as long as Rottie does not decide to sell it!:D

idcook · Post by **idcook** » Thu Jul 17, 2014 10:50 am

JPG40504 wrote:Yer 'safe' as long as Rottie does not decide to sell it!:D

Aghhhhhhhhhh!