Mark VII parts

ryansm7 · Post by **ryansm7** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:48 pm

Cool... What material is it made of?

I am researching different types of bearings for the follower; Here are some pictures from my M7.

~Ryan

wannabewoodworker · Post by **wannabewoodworker** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 7:15 pm

I got all of my bearings from VXB in California online. The quadrant follower bearing was a 6 mm X 11 mm X 6 mm size and cost a couple of dollars. The new follower he made me is steel. I should have it by Tuesday and will let you know how it works out. How did you get the bearing off of yours without breaking the center pin????

ryansm7 · Post by **ryansm7** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 8:15 pm

wannabewoodworker wrote:The quadrant follower bearing was a 6 mm X 11 mm X 6 mm size and cost a couple of dollars.
How did you get the bearing off of yours without breaking the center pin????

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wannabewoodworker · Post by **wannabewoodworker** » Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:28 pm

I did the same thing to get it out of the sheave assy. but then when I tried to pull the bearing off with my newly purchased bearing remover it just yanked the damn pin off. I should have analyzed it a bit closer before going to town on it. Lesson learned on that part. Your method of tapping it out was a better way to go and knowing what i know now that is exactly how I should have done it as well................

By the way the guy that made me the follower is sending the cam back as well he doesn't think he can make it easily. So I am going to bring it over to a guy who finally contacted me locally who has his own machine shop that is his second shift job. He has a bunch of high tech CNC gear and i think he could probably make the cam from some nice aluminum stock. Have you already done this on yours??? I see your avatar is a picture of the cam very cool.

ryansm7 · Post by **ryansm7** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:14 am

I have been playing around with making a cam for a while; making various molds and casting. The cams I've made so far are sufficient enough to allow me to use my M7, but not good enough to provide to other M7 owners.
I do not want to go to aluminum for the cam. It’s quite costly, and I like playing around with the cam in castings. The avatar is a piece of artwork.

By the way; does anyone know what happened to the ssug.org website?

~ Ryan

wannabewoodworker · Post by **wannabewoodworker** » Mon Mar 01, 2010 3:32 pm

The site seems to be back up and running. Here is what is posted on the home page:

"Ok after a four day battle with servers and databases, I have managed to restore the site. The restoration is from a back up from last Wednesday. It shouldn't be a problems as that is when the host started having issue with the mysql server. Those issues led to data corruption. There should have been minimal data loss. If you have posts that are missing please repost. If you are a user who registered but can't login due to not being in the system please re-register and we will get you approved asap.
I apologize for the delay as well as any inconvenience this downtime has caused.
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nathan01 · Post by **nathan01** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 3:03 pm

i have a shopsmith Mark V11 and it works great. where do i find the driveshafts. i really am not sure what they are called. if anyone can help me i would appriciate it.

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:05 pm

nathan01 wrote:i have a shopsmith Mark V11 and it works great. where do i find the driveshafts. i really am not sure what they are called. if anyone can help me i would appriciate it.

Hi Nathan,

Is the Power Couplerthe item that you are asking about?

wannabewoodworker · Post by **wannabewoodworker** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:55 pm

nathan01 wrote:i have a shopsmith Mark V11 and it works great. where do i find the driveshafts. i really am not sure what they are called. if anyone can help me i would appriciate it.

Welcome to an awesome site Nathan. There are several "shafts" inside the headstock can you be a bit more precise or descriptive on what you are looking for help on??? I have my Mark VII headstock completely apart right now for a rebuild so I can pretty easily identify anything that you are looking at with a little more description. There are others here that are also more experienced with these machines but from other posts I will agree it isn't rocket science and the headstock is a very simple yet useful design and quite easy to work on and fix.

bdad80 · Post by **bdad80** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 9:46 pm

If any body is interested, while looking at Ebay I came across a Mark VII follower cam up for bid. The same seller had several other Mark VII parts up for bid too. Here is the link to the follower cam.http://cgi.ebay.com/Mark-7-speed-control-assembly-by-shopsmith_W0QQitemZ270540529988QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item3efd78e144