Potpourri - June 2010

mickyd · Post by **mickyd** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:14 pm

We'll try a MONTHLY vs. weekly thread.....less work!!

This thread is for discussion of anything. Changing subjects is expected and/or encouraged!

Last weeks was:

https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=5845

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:24 pm

Three weeks til the commencement of 'summer' and it feels like it started two weeks ago! Of course for Dusty(and other road runners) it never left!:D

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:31 pm

jpg40504 in Lexington
My son in law is from Lexington and his family live there. We visited them a few years ago and enjoyed the area. Very impressed with the bronze horse race!

Query: I have a 510, if looking for a used shaper/drum sander fence, are there differences among them or will any "fit" on the main table?

cv3 · Post by **cv3** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 3:30 pm

I hate that Mobile lost the Woodcraft store. It was so nice to be able to get in the car and go get some thing if I needed it. That would now be an 8 hour drive round trip. We are back to catalogs and hope you get what you wanted. As many wood workers and wood turners as there are in the area you would think there would be a store some were near. If any one knows of a place that sells wood working supplies with in a hundred miles of Mobile let me know. We have the big boxes home improvement stores but they are not a work workers store. Oh well. I just got spoiled having a place 10 minutes a way.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 4:16 pm

prmindartmouth wrote:jpg40504 in Lexington
My son in law is from Lexington and his family live there. We visited them a few years ago and enjoyed the area. Very impressed with the bronze horse race!

Query: I have a 510, if looking for a used shaper/drum sander fence, are there differences among them or will any "fit" on the main table?

There are two versions. The original(500) clamps to the smaller table at the front and rear. The 505...20) fits the larger table and mounts by screws through two holes in the table. The holes are located between the blade slot and the headstock side.

The older one is longer than the newer version, but the slot and a hole for the mounting screws is not located so as to be used with the 505...20) table. The older version has a casting rib at the location appropriate for the newer screw holes.

The newer one has the screw slots running sideways, thus allowing adjustment towards or away from the headstock(about an inch). The older one has the screw hole at one end, and a long slot at the other end. This only allows adjusting the clamps to the front/rear of the table.

I have not used the 510 version(yet) so I do not really know the reason for the sideways adjustment. The older one can be moved that direction by sliding in in/out along the front/rear of the table.

The old one(ala 1963) has only the infeed fence 'micro-adjustable' whereas the newer one is 'micro-adjustable' on both in and outfeed fences.

i.e. Ya need the newer one to fit the 510.

BTW are you aware of how little time it took the sculptress to carve them(all)?

peterm · Post by **peterm** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:50 pm

thanks for the review of the shaper fence

Nope, how long?

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 7:38 pm

prmindartmouth wrote:thanks for the review of the shaper fence

Nope, how long?

Less than a year! And all that detail!(horseshoe nails etc.)

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:44 pm

JPG40504 wrote:Three weeks til the commencement of 'summer' and it feels like it started two weeks ago! Of course for Dusty(and other road runners) it never left!:D

Your "feels like it started" is subjective. Out here in the PNW, it still feels like winter on some days. Tomorrow is supposed to bring 1" of rain and the rest of the week is looking grim too.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:10 pm

a1gutterman wrote:Your "feels like it started" is subjective. Out here in the PNW, it still feels like winter on some days. Tomorrow is supposed to bring 1" of rain and the rest of the week is looking grim too.

Been mid to upper 80's for the past coupla weeks(except the day it rained). onite high 70's.

wlhayesmfs · Post by **wlhayesmfs** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:43 pm

We have been upper 80's and low 90's and it is just the first of June that is Aug weather for here. No rain and through Sat is to be middle 90's Wow Straight to Summer. Got my first sunburn Sunday. Way to start.
Should have stayed in the shop and made the baby cradle I need to get done