What's this for?

[chapmanruss]

JPG,

I know it was a long time ago but was your "Goldie" shipped directly to you in a crate or did you pick it up in a store fully assembled? If shipped directly to you in a crate, do you recall it those holes were used to attach it to the crate?

[RFGuy]

I wonder what the publication date was for the manual that the link below was taken from. IF it is before 1954, then I suspect the original intent is as I have indicated (with charlese help) which is they were intended for securing during crating to pack and ship. That was their primary intent.
Unfortunately the 3 scanned pages have no identifiers as to the date or which document that they come from, though presumably from an Owner's Manual.

https://www.shopsmith.com/getting_start ... Manual.pdf

[DLB]

I can't take credit for this idea, but the Double Tilt crowd doesn't have those Headrest holes so I use this for my SS Toolbox. Being frugal, this one is made from some leftover icemaker line but the one I stole the idea from was stainless tubing. It's a more convenient location IMO, and also holds my DC remote. There is a second mount style zip tie near the bottom, mostly hidden by the remote.

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- David

[thedovetailjoint]

David, what are you using the stacked faceplates with the tail stock chuck arbor for?

UPDATE: I just saw your runout post. Clever approach.

[JPG]

Head rest holes - store ss tool kit and drill chuck key.

I still think it was not the original design purpose.

[KCollins]

That's a great idea David thanks for sharing. I've been struggling with a place to put my hex wrench and that just might be the ticket.

[KCollins]

I would in any case contact SS and see what they say. SS attempts to make the best decision.

If I'm reading things right Vevayop845 you're new... did you just join today? Welcome.

I posted earlier in this thread that I did contact SS and this is what it said.

Well... to put the steel scale issue to rest SS got back to me and said that they will not send me another scale... I can buy them from SS and he wanted to sell them to me on the spot. I told him I'd have to think about it. Man.... I'm kind of sorry I asked. I dropped just over $6,000 last year on my purchase and they can't comp me a $30.00 Scale? Yes I probably threw it away in the packaging but a client willing to drop that much money is worth $30 bucks to keep them happy in my opinion. Now I have a bad taste in my mouth. I'm sure it will pass but still....

[RFGuy]

Kevin,

You are wasting your time. That post from vevayop845 is another spammer/chatbot type. This is the 2nd post I have found today where they copied nearly verbatim what I said in a previous post, though their chatbot is using synonyms now to replace some terms from the original post of mine. Below is what I said previously:

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Link to other plagiarized post:
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[KCollins]

Now that's just funny right there RF Guy...

[RFGuy]

Now that's just funny right there RF Guy...

Yeah, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt...you never know when a new person comes to the forum and you don't want to scare them off. However, I am leaning more towards the banning of spammers lately. Today I have read two different posts get parroted back to me, and maybe it is obvious to me because I wrote them initially. In the past they would copy most or all of an old post and then regurgitate it years later with a link added. This must be the "new" thing, i.e. taking a fairly recent post and changing out the major terms for synonyms. These spammer/chatbot entities are getting very clever. Very clever!

P.S. Either that, or the 1000 monkeys in a room with keyboards are catching up to me!