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Here is my vote. The most expensive weed wacker rewinder.
Bill V

I gotta mention the early advertisung(?) of cutting sheet goods with the saw in drill press mode and an unguarded saw blade.

Also the reversed headstock to drill holes above as into ceiling joists.

ERLover wrote:Skou has a pic of some weird thing, could be the Margaretta thing or a blender. Other then possibly the ice cream maker those were all ER attachments/accessories I do believe over the years, maybe the ice cream maker too for all I know.
I am just wondering what is powering them all at the same time, got to be a 3 step pulley system with a lot of belts running off off the ones that are not powering the head stock.

Just "shows to go you," if you want a ShopSmith to do "Amazing" things,
it had better be a Model 10!

Yes, I've posted that picture before, but just in jest!
(Like this thread should be!)

steve

Oh, on a serious note, I once hung a 360 Chrysler
crankshaft between centers, to polish up the main
journals. No power was involved, used my first
Model 10 as a jig.

(Lathe drive center on the headstock, and a dead center
on the tailstock.)

Yes, the engine ran just fine, after.

steve

There was the 10er I spotted on Kijiji that was set up with a meat grinder. http://shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewtopic ... 27#p201227

And there was a report of a Mk VII that had been used as a chicken plucker. http://shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewtopic ... 70#p164070

I used to bring home shoe repair work from the store and do it at night using a Shopsmith. I didn't have a metal lathe in those days so I had a local specialty machinist make several adapters to my specs so I could do the work. Walking out to the woodshop after supper sure beat driving back to the store for a few hours work to keep up with the work load.
There were a zillion odd jobs I just had to do at the store with special equipment but the meat & potatoes work I could do most of at home.
The Shopsmith served the purpose well.


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