Wanting to upgrade

plebel · Post by **plebel** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:00 pm

I have an older 500ss I would like to upgrade to the 520.Where would be a good place to look

lv2wdwrk · Post by **lv2wdwrk** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:07 pm

ShopSmith sells the upgrade.

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:49 pm

plebel wrote:I have an older 500ss I would like to upgrade to the 520.Where would be a good place to look

I believe this is what you are looking for!

beeg · Post by **beeg** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:52 pm

Be prepared to spend about $1300.00.

bucksaw · Post by **bucksaw** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:45 am

I did a 510 upgrade by buying the parts off eBay. I ended up spending around $350 total. It took about 3 months of bidding to finally win all the parts needed. I wanted a 520 upgrade but could not afford the $1200 it would have cost from SS and you don't see many 520 parts auctioned on eBay. An upgrade from a 500 to a 510 or 520 is well worth the money.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:03 am

bucksaw wrote:I did a 510 upgrade by buying the parts off eBay. I ended up spending around $350 total. It took about 3 months of bidding to finally win all the parts needed. I wanted a 520 upgrade but could not afford the $1200 it would have cost from SS and you don't see much 520 parts auctioned on eBay. An upgrade from a 500 to a 510 or 520 is well worth the money.

Now that you have a 510, are you still interested in upgrading further. If there really were major shortcomings in the earlier models, I believe those have all been eliminated by the introduction of the 510.

Do you realize that you can now take that final step to a 520 for much less. The 510 to 520 upgrade is only $425.69.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/cata ... ofence.htm

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 11:06 am

dusty wrote:Now that you have a 510, are you still interested in upgrading further. If there really were major shortcomings in the earlier models, I believe those have all been eliminated by the introduction of the 510.

Do you realize that you can now take that final step to a 520 for much less. The 510 to 520 upgrade is only $425.69.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/cata ... ofence.htm

The 520 fence improvement is almost worth that alone!(the box rails ARE needed to use it!)

plebel · Post by **plebel** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:58 pm

Thank you I'll look into that on ebay Paul

bucksaw · Post by **bucksaw** » Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:56 pm

JPG40504 wrote:The 520 fence improvement is almost worth that alone!(the box rails ARE needed to use it!)

I may do that because I could sell the 510 parts I don't need on eBay after the upgrade to the 520 from the 510.