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Welcome! I took the blood comment as intended!

I have a few starters

In comparison to what is out there your Greenie is actually not in bad shape at all. Most the tubes are rusted and the paint is so faded it is hard to know it is a Greenie. A little work and you will be like new !

Welcome! Being close to Portland, you are in luck as Shopsmith items tend to be fairly plentiful on the Portland and surrounding CraigsList. I've seen some good deals up that way over the past few years, although it was always a bit too far for me to make the trek (Portland is ~7-8 hour drive for me). Soon enough, you'll discover that one SS is good and multiple sho[smiths even better, especially when the price is right As noted previously, read up on maintenance and post lots of questions and photos as needed.

Thanks guys. I'll be doing the clean and lube at the end of the week. The upper tubes aren't too bad, the lowers are in need of work. I picked up some mineral spirits and johnsons wax. The band saw table has a bit of surface rust, but no pitting. The table saw table looks decent, just very small. The jointer is dark, but doesn't appear to be rusted. The paint has some issues, it looks like someone spilled some solvent or something. I intend to strip it and paint it this summer, unless I get into projects, then it will wait. The seller was a great guy and gave me a lot of information.

In all, I got several blades, a shaper set, bandsaw, jointer, dust collection pack, grinder wheel, all the original lathe pieces and tools, cutting wheels, and every document the owner had. It appears it was serviced in Ohio in early 2000. He even had a couple ShopSmith magazines from 1955 and 1957. Everything for $350. I see less complete setups for more than twice that on craigslist. The top guard, for the table saw, has a broken plastic connector (piece that screws to the table) but the lower guards and dust collection are good. I'll need to find a new connection, I don't like the idea of an exposed blade with my inexperience. Of course, I do not intend to run the other functions with the table saw blade attached. I figure it will be safer and easier on the motor if it is only trying to run a single tool.

I have a friend that is giving me a dust collection machine. It has sat in the back shed for greater than 20 years, unused, but still works great. Has impressive suction. It's a Torit. I plan to strip it and paint it to match the SS.

Wow!

You got a seriously great deal.

That Torit dust collector is a definite winner too.

Electrolysis will work wonders on that BS table.

aiellon wrote:I have a few starters

Is that a homemade anti rattle spring that is around the switch in the headstock picture, some other purpose, or optical illusion?

redleg wrote:Is that a homemade anti rattle spring that is around the switch in the headstock picture, some other purpose, or optical illusion?

No, that is an original type 'A' headstock 'interlock'. That must be pushed to increase speed beyond 'saw/joint'. A 'button' on the end of that piece rides in the groove on the back of the outer ring. Present 'anti rattle' spring does a similar thing. Extra force is required as the spring rides out of the groove.

The original maintains pressure on the back of the ring as the current spring does. So both could be called 'anti-rattle', but IMHO that is not the original intent.

It amazes me that the original ring design has been retained after all this time.

My guess is that with the 'B' headstock the interlock was deleted and since the ring then rattled, the spring was added. It does not provide much tactile feedback as the spring rides out of the groove, but it is there.

First closeup I have seen of the interlock. Thanks.