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All that will depend upon what motor he has.

If he has to use a step down transformer, that can limit start up power.

Welcome!!! SS Forum now has gone International!!

What a nice welcome ! Now I`m sure I`ll fell good in here - you are a great community I see.

Belive me or not but yesterday was "my first time" with Shop Smith. Try do find out your memories of that day - how was ?

I have 500 mod from 1990:
- lathe
- sander
- drill press
- horizontal bore
- table saw
- band saw
- biscuit joiner

and you know what ? I fell in love!
Unfortunately in here (Poland) there is no parts / accesory / machines from Shop Smith. (thank God we have nice stuff like saw blades etc.) I had to order my SS in England ( 1200 $ - so as like I see your prices are very nice! To show you how much is that my monthly salary is 500$. Next time when you think you have high prices for woodworking stuff - think twice )

* reible - you should see my face: it was like: ooo we have some guy from Poland over here..!
... ooo , it was a nice joke!

Once again thanks for such a great welcome from you! Now we can say international I hope you will understand me well - I never learned English - it`s just came to my brain so that the reason why I apologize for my misteakes

Have a nice day for all of you!(in Poland we have beatifull morning 07.12 and -2 deg celcius) First frozened windows in my car.

JPG wrote:All that will depend upon what motor he has.

If he has to use a step down transformer, that can limit start up power.

In the first post he said he had got it from England, so it should be a 230 volt motor.

Pepis wrote:Hello guys!

I`m new user of SS (Mark V, mod: 500) from Poland (in here nobody heard about SS, I got mine from England) Few days ago I`ve ordered bandsaw and biscuit joiner - maybe today I`ll get it from UPS.

I`m glad to find this forum - so much info in one place!
Sorry for my english
1st question: can I change speed when motor is powered on or I could do that only when it`s power off ?

Pepis,
many here have extras of SS stuff, SS Home Site who Sponsors this Forum, AKA the MS/ Mother Ship, frowns on posting things for sale here. A Personal Message/PM is okay.
I dont know what shipping cost is to Poland but if you need something ask. Then a PM can get to you.
In the past I had things I got with my collection of SS, and knew I would not use, so off to a member here that needed them and would use them.
Here in the States on the Internet we have EBay and Craigs List to sell/buy items but I dont do that to sell SS things, I just buy there if I need something. I save my SS stuff I dont need/use for members here.
A family kinda thing for me.

rpd wrote:

JPG wrote:All that will depend upon what motor he has.

If he has to use a step down transformer, that can limit start up power.

In the first post he said he had got it from England, so it should be a 230 volt motor.

Pepis wrote:Hello guys!

I`m new user of SS (Mark V, mod: 500) from Poland (in here nobody heard about SS, I got mine from England) Few days ago I`ve ordered bandsaw and biscuit joiner - maybe today I`ll get it from UPS.

I`m glad to find this forum - so much info in one place!
Sorry for my english
1st question: can I change speed when motor is powered on or I could do that only when it`s power off ?

Yes, I wondered about that, Voltage Amps. but I have no knowledge of that, been to Italy but did not have any US electrical things me, a straight razor man.

ERLover wrote:Welcome!!! SS Forum now has gone International!!

Pay attention Michael, it is always nice to get a new member, but there are many here that are "International". I have seen at least two from Australia, one from South Africa, several from Great Britain. one from Slovakia, and many of us from Canada.

Pepis,
It will be nice to communicate in my early AM here with you, 1 A M here, while all here are sleeping, while you are having your morning coffee.
I guess now we have to GTM time on the Forum!!!!
Admin, can you handle that???

rpd wrote:

ERLover wrote:Welcome!!! SS Forum now has gone International!!

Pay attention Michael, it is always nice to get a new member, but there are many here that are "International". I have seen at least two from Australia, one from South Africa, several from Great Britain. one from Slovakia, and many of us from Canada.

I was a where from Canada, I was not of the other Countries, never knew or they never said. I did not mean to offend any of them. If I did, to all I apologize, and to the Canadians if I did, same, I apologize, love my fishing trips and ski trips up there.
Brings back a memory, a friend has a cabin on White Fish lake in Ontario, I had the prevlage to use every year, on any given day you see more boats with WI, USA registration on them, so one evening on a Perch and Walleye reef/hot spot a bunch of locals are there too.
We are close, 10ft apart anchored, one sez to me, "so you dont have any lakes in Wisconsin"? LMAO.

* Yeah I know your time (I have a Casio Riseman - it shows me that when I write posr in here probably you are sleeping )

* My Mark V has a 230V motor

* I`m interesting of buy some extras - honestly those are my first steps in woodworking. I have a lot of experiens in ATV logging etc, acctualy I work in big sawmill (my job is to by wood and organize transport - pine and oak)
My grandfather had little workshop many years ago but I have only few chisels and working table (I guess it has 70 years old) I would be very glad if you could offer me some secondhand stuff on PM - maybe transport won`t be so bad.

I`m looking for everything what begginers should have Honeslty I have 3 lathe chisels (1 of them is broken, I need to fix it), 1 normal china chisel, 1 old clamp, some hammers and screwdrivers etc.

I didn`t pay money to US/Canada/Australia but I think you have PayPal od smth ?

EDIT:

Did someone have pdf of "Shopsmith Power Tool Woodworking for Everyone" ?