Time to plan the shorty shopsmith

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Ed, if the skunks have a favorite place by you, get some moth balls and spread them around. Where I stored my boat in the winter, last one in, they threw moth balls on the floor, kept the coons, possums, and the mice out.
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To windy to paint but a nice day for cutting tubes. I decided on cutting off 16" which will make it a 2/3 length shopsmith.

Since I had the time I thought I do at least a little documentation of how I did the tube cutting.

I have some saw horses that hold round objects, good for working on the shopsmith tubes. For cutting, with a little help from some clamps they worked well.

I wrapped some tape down about 16" on the tube after picking which end was "better".
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Once it is marked you have only the one spot to reference off of.
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I'd rather have a line but if it isn't square well that is worse then no line at all. Since I have a stop collar that is tubing size it is pretty easy to get it to align to the pencil point and when snugged up it is automatically square.
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Now it is simple to draw the line all the way around the tube.
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Add the clamps and I'm ready to cut. I went with my portable bandsaw.

Anyone care to guess how long it takes to cut a tube?

Well I didn't time it but here is a video:

https://youtu.be/Y-CGHhDalc8

So I'm as far as I can go on this project today.

Ed
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Now that I have 4 16" tubes what do I do with them? Off hand I don't see where I could use them unless perhaps to make some sort of lathe extension but I don't really see that happening............

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reible wrote:Now that I have 4 16" tubes what do I do with them? Off hand I don't see where I could use them unless perhaps to make some sort of lathe extension but I don't really see that happening............

Ed
I used my 18" cut offs to make a dedicated drill press.
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How did you get the 1 3/4" tubes shrunk to 1 1/4"? :rolleyes:
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JPG wrote:How did you get the 1 3/4" tubes shrunk to 1 1/4"? :rolleyes:
Heat gun and shrink tube technology!!!LOL :D
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I just realized you were referring to the 'bench' tubes on the drill press. :o
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any pictures on the one that mounts to power station by Bill Mayo?
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