Universal Tool Rest

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beeg
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cousinwill wrote:Well that sounds a lot better than the nightmare I had envisioned !!
To install it, will take about as much time as any other change over. Two minutes maybe. Mostly I leave mine on the carriage, and I LIKE the positive lock down on it over the old one. I never could get the main post to KNOT move.
SS 500(09/1980), DC3300, jointer, bandsaw, belt sander, Strip Sander, drum sanders,molder, dado, biscuit joiner, universal lathe tool rest, Oneway talon chuck, router bits & chucks and a De Walt 735 planer,a #5,#6, block planes. ALL in a 100 square foot shop.
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I thought at this point in the discussion it might serve well to link to a batch of pictures of said "Universal Tool Rest". :)
https://www.google.com/search?q=Shopsmith+universal+tool+rest&safe=off&client=ubuntu-browser&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=KkzIUurTFoeoyAGF9oHICw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=867&bih=436&dpr=1.5

I don't own one but I plan to before too long.


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robinson46176 wrote:I don't own one but I plan to before too long.

It's on sale till 01/07/14.
SS 500(09/1980), DC3300, jointer, bandsaw, belt sander, Strip Sander, drum sanders,molder, dado, biscuit joiner, universal lathe tool rest, Oneway talon chuck, router bits & chucks and a De Walt 735 planer,a #5,#6, block planes. ALL in a 100 square foot shop.
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Bob
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