Replacement base for Mk V?

derk · Post by **derk** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:41 pm

Find yourself an old Hospital Bed. Excellent as a adjustable height workbench or support for your Shopsmith, has large caster wheels, and has electric adjustable height.

jeeperjohn · Post by **jeeperjohn** » Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:35 pm

ryanbp01 wrote:dkerfoot:
I think I may have found a solution to your problem. Send me a PM with your address and I will make you a copy, if you want it.

BPR

I am interested in doing this also. Could your idea be posted here?
Thanks,
John

ryanbp01 · Post by **ryanbp01** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:17 pm

jeeperjohn wrote:I am interested in doing this also. Could your idea be posted here?
Thanks,
John

Why sure. On my way home from vacation, I stopped by my uncle and aunt's to visit and to pick up some woodworking magazines. Turns out I inherited 20 years' worth of Wood, Workbench, Woodworkers Journal, and a whole year of Shopsmith Hands-On magazine for 1982-83! There was an article that had the directions to build storage cabinets for under the Mark V.

BPR

aebe · Post by **aebe** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:54 am

Hello,I'm a newby,am going to put a mobile base under an extended 500.
Trailer jacks.not cheap,but sturdy,and the screws from junkers at the dump
are good for vises.

ryanbp01 · Post by **ryanbp01** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:41 am

ryanbp01 wrote:Why sure. On my way home from vacation, I stopped by my uncle and aunt's to visit and to pick up some woodworking magazines. Turns out I inherited 20 years' worth of Wood, Workbench, Woodworkers Journal, and a whole year of Shopsmith Hands-On magazine for 1982-83! There was an article that had the directions to build storage cabinets for under the Mark V.

BPR

If anyone wants a copy, PM me with your name and address and I will send you one.
BPR

joedw00 · Post by **joedw00** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:25 pm

Welcome to the Forum aebe, & discordanian:)

discordanian · Post by **discordanian** » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:39 pm

joedw00 wrote:Welcome to the Forum aebe, & discordanian:)

Thanks Joe. Just got my first SS (Model 510) and I'm eager to get to making sawdust, so I'll probably have lots of questions. I've never used one before.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 12:13 am

discordanian wrote:Thanks Joe. Just got my first SS (Model 510) and I'm eager to get to making sawdust, so I'll probably have lots of questions. I've never used one before.

Be CAREFUL!!!!!!

rcf · Post by **rcf** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:12 pm

I added a storage cabinet under the way tubes of my shopsmith, to accomodate the legs of the main table, as in horizontal drilling etc, I put a hole in the back side, so the leg will drop down into it. The front clears just by a hair. The hole is plugged with an off the shelf plastic filler. (keeps the sawdust out of the drawers) So far I've had NO problems with this arrangement, been using it this way for some time now.

mikelst · Post by **mikelst** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 11:49 am

If you do a google book search for popular mechanics it will take you to this link:)
http://books.google.com/books?id=9tkDAAAAMBAJ

This is a historical look at the popular mechanics magazine and well worth a browse. I like this a site(?) a lot.

Now if you were to pull up the August 1967 issue and get to page 148 you will find an article on building a new base for the Mark 2. Or you could just use this link and go straight there.

http://books.google.com/books?id=rtMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA148&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

I think this could be adapted/modified for the Mark 5 with little on even no effort. This plan builds a replacement base for the ShopSmith that approximates the same footprint while allowing the tool to tilt either way (similar to the mark 7) It has built in provisions for raising the tool for a higher work height. It could be easily modified to give you a custom work height.

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