Belt sander, Mark V question

[fixit]

Dusty,

I'd appreciate it if you would send me a copy. I'm on my way to church now so I'll check the web site later and see if I can find Nick's post of the saw table alignment stuff.

Thanks.

[dusty]

Folks, I wrote the belt sander manual (eons ago, it seems), so I put the "Alignment and Adjustment" section in a .pdf file for all to share. It answers all the issues raised in this thread. Here's the link:http://www.shopsmithacademy.com/Academy ... gnment.pdf

With all good wishes,

This link now goes to a missing webpage notice. Several of the pdf's that used to be available are no longer.

[Nick]

Dusty, we had to take down all our partial manuals, such as my belt sander chapter. Some legal crap about leaving ourselves exposed if we don't publish the safety section with everything else. Folks can still order complete manuals through Customer Service.

With all good wishes,

[dusty]

OK, I understand the legal ramifications. It is too bad though, that was a good source of info that could be exchanged here online.

[reible]

I hate to bring this up but I don't recall the "standard" Norm type safety warnings on the the video's either??

Ed

[Ed in Tampa]

Dusty, we had to take down all our partial manuals, such as my belt sander chapter. Some legal crap about leaving ourselves exposed if we don't publish the safety section with everything else. Folks can still order complete manuals through Customer Service.

With all good wishes,

Don't you just love what the ambulance chasing lawyers have turned our legal system into? I have seen people conned by lawyers to bring suit and end up deep in debt. If anyone but a lawyer did that they would be called a criminal and prosecuted. Lawyers consistantly tell you, you only pay if you win. But in fact you are required to pay the the lawyers actual expenses, expert witnesses fees, investigators fees , medical doctors fees and etc win or lose.

Ed

[dusty]

Off Topic but:

I fed a piece of stock into my shaper blade from the wrong side. I have a damaged finger as a direct result of that act. Thank God it is just a damaged finger.

I wonder if I missed a chance. Maybe I could have sued. I don't recall ever being warned that this could happen.

No. My shop teacher warned me. Power tools are dangerous and if not used correctly they can and will hurt you. Guess he knew what he was talking about.

As usual, reible has again spoken the truth. Shopsmith has not posted the usual safety warnings on the videos but Nick has repeatedly stated what the direction of feed should be. Isn't that enough? I think it is!

Be safe.

[charlese]

Shucks Dusty! You knew better too! Too bad the old "Live and Learn" saying has to come true over and over again. At our age, we really should know better, but ---.

Seriously, I'm really sorry this happened to you. Hoping you didn't get cut into or through the bone. Get well soon! Maybe with a bandage (hopefully not a splint) you can go to turning some of that red alder.

[dusty]

Thank you ever so much for the sympathy but it really isn't necessary or appropriate. I was not clear in my post. This was not a recent incident but rather one that I learned from long ago.

I was trying to make a point about "safety notes". They are very appropriate but I don't think they should be monitored by the court system. We all know that they (the courts) have other things they should be paying attention too.

[charlese]

Thanks for the good news!

I don't think safety notices are monitored by any court system. They are monitored, however by company attorneys, who's job it is to keep the company out of trouble. If there ever has (and there probably has ) been a case of someone suing a company over missing safety instructions, (winning or not, settled or not) and the company's attorneys picked up on this - then it becomes their job to call attention to such liabilities and to request fixing similar "problems" in their company.

In this age of extreme litigation, it unfortunately has become necessary for a manufacturer like Shopsmith to tell every idiot how to do everything except how to breathe. Whoops, maybe they even have to explain breathing!