Help with unrecognized parts

avincenty · Post by **avincenty** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:45 pm

I just purchased an old Mark V system (from 1954), the previous owner gave me a bunch of accessories but there are some parts that I don't recognize. I have owned two units before and have never seen these.

Alfredo

cml · Post by **cml** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:49 am

avincenty wrote:I just purchased an old Mark V system (from 1954), the previous owner gave me a bunch of accessories but there are some parts that I don't recognize. I have owned two units before and have never seen these.

Alfredo

The bigger one looks like a lathe backer. I have no clue what the smaller item is, but I'm curious because i just found one in my box of shopsmith stuff. It looks like some kind of pulley?

avincenty · Post by **avincenty** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 2:17 am

cml wrote:The bigger one looks like a lathe backer. I have no clue what the smaller item is, but I'm curious because i just found one in my box of shopsmith stuff. It looks like some kind of pulley?

The bigger one fits nicely inside the smaller one and it appears it is designed to rotate inside it. I think they go together because the larger one has a cone shape in the back and the smaller one has the receiving inverted cone. The smaller one definitely looks as if it accepts a belt.

If you have one maybe with time it will come to you what its intended use is.

txs

thainglo · Post by **thainglo** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:01 am

One of the parts I look forward to the most when buying a long-forgotten Shopsmith is the bucket/box/crate of parts that comes along with the machine!

On more than one occasion, non-SS parts have been tossed in the container. My favorite so far is an old-tyme toilet flush handle.

Can't help you on your setup, but it does look like a pulley contraption. Good luck!

wlhayesmfs · Post by **wlhayesmfs** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:56 am

Reminds me of something off of an old washing machine but I am lost also.

avincenty · Post by **avincenty** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:52 am

The machine came with the original user manual plus a manual for a jointer and a scroll saw. I don't have any of the two. But the manual mentions that in order to attache it to a motor in a single power stand or a homemade wooden stand that you would need a 1 3/4" pulley and Mate with 5" step.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:24 am

wlhayesmfs wrote:Reminds me of something off of an old washing machine but I am lost also.

That is what I was thinking! Or an end piece of an electric motor.

I do NOT think they are SS origin.

shipwright · Post by **shipwright** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:22 am

avincenty wrote:The bigger one fits nicely inside the smaller one and it appears it is designed to rotate inside it. I think they go together because the larger one has a cone shape in the back and the smaller one has the receiving inverted cone. The smaller one definitely looks as if it accepts a belt.

If you have one maybe with time it will come to you what its intended use is.

txs

Sounds like a clutch of some kind. Just a guess but you've come to the right place. In this thread http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showthread.htm?t=4889 forum members mainly Ivan (iclark) helped me figure out that strange parts accompanying my 10ER were actually a shop made copy lathe.

Paul M