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Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:01 am
by lyall
I got a SS510 and an old greenie
I use the greenie as a drill press
than I made a table on the greenie to hold the my jointer, jig saw, belt sander, and lathe tool rest and lathe tail stock
the band saw is on the end of the greenie.
all of them are handy to get to. the greenie is on casters so that I can move it around when needed.
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good place to store the accessories and saves space in the shop
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 12:29 am
by rjent
lyall wrote:I got a SS510 and an old greenie
I use the greenie as a drill press
than I made a table on the greenie to hold the my jointer, jig saw, belt sander, and lathe tool rest and lathe tail stock
the band saw is on the end of the greenie.
all of them are handy to get to. the greenie is on casters so that I can move it around when needed.
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greenie2.JPG
good place to store the accessories and saves space in the shop
That is a good idea! i like it! It sure makes room for the SPT's without modifying machines.
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:07 pm
by lyncaudle
ERLover wrote:I 5 or 6 it, make a mini with conduit, depending on usage, BS on one end disc sander on the other, jointer, not a planer as you called it on the gray one.
Whoops yea Jointer, i knew that, mispoke, freudian slip. Embarrassed!
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:13 pm
by lyncaudle
JPG wrote:The first ? is, what can you get for 'one' of them. Then ask yourself what is it worth to you. I think the second answer is a larger number.
Since it is a greenie that you may consider shortening etc. be aware the bench tubes are a larger od than the way tubes.
IIWM, I would not cut any of the original tubes. A pair of way tubes cut 25 5/8 \ 26 3/8 or bench tubes cut 26 \\ 26 3/4 will make a mini. The smaller tubes will fit the greenie castings, but the bench tube spacing will be a bit(1/8") wide. A shim could be used to eliminate that.
Other than the band saw, what 'duplicates' do you have?
I have the bandsaw and jointer as well as multiple sanding disks, a variety of tables for table saw, bandsaw table and accessory tables and two tailstocks and an additional headstock. Also have two sets of flangeplates small and large and two live centers.
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:16 pm
by lyncaudle
Will definatly go this route, didnt know i could get this conversion kit.
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:15 pm
by JPG
Sanding disks are like clamps. You canNOT have too many of them!
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:17 pm
by JPG
Sanding disks are like clamps. You canNOT have too many of them!
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 8:53 am
by ERLover
JPG wrote:Sanding disks are like clamps. You canNOT have too many of them!
Ditto that with 4 and each a different grit, and a conical one.
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:56 pm
by JPG
ERLover wrote:JPG wrote:Sanding disks are like clamps. You canNOT have too many of them!
Ditto that with
4 and each a different grit, and a conical one.
Iszat all?
Re: Which is better to keep Greenie or Grey Shopsmith?
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 11:08 pm
by ERLover
@JPG>Iszat all?
I picked up 2 more and the nephew had 1 from his greenie, I set him up with those, I just did not need 2 more. I like the aluminum ones over the steel.
I mean how many do ya need? I am not greedy or do the Ebay thing.