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No one better to do this brother! anxiously waiting for your final product!

Wrapping up an illuminating week in Dayton When I get home I will begin the alignment corrections, stitching of oversized scans together,despeckling, patching and repairing things as I seprate book research materials out from general interest materials

Next week I will clean up and post a photo perhaps the only surviving photo of the first shopsmih made - for the patent office.

Tonight Tera and I had dinner and a lot of fun conversation with Jim McCann of Shopsmith, Nick Engler formerly of Shopsmith and their wives also each formerly with Shopsmith.

Great evening altogether.

That must have been a very intersting dinner. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall!

I still think the Shopsmith story should be an exhibit in the Smithsonian... I mean isn't that basic design about 70 years old now? And so many still in active service... Some of us could even argue that the original Mark V (500) was better proportioned and the the best mix of form and function than their morphed-out successors...

Looking forward to the historical photos and documents.

Ely

EliWalton wrote:I still think the Shopsmith story should be an exhibit in the Smithsonian... I mean isn't that basic design about 70 years old now? And so many still in active service... Some of us could even argue that the original Mark V (500) was better proportioned and the the best mix of form and function than their morphed-out successors...

Looking forward to the historical photos and documents.

Ely

The 70 year old model was a Mark 5. Mark V (500) model designation came a couple of decades later.

JPG wrote:

EliWalton wrote:I still think the Shopsmith story should be an exhibit in the Smithsonian... I mean isn't that basic design about 70 years old now? And so many still in active service... Some of us could even argue that the original Mark V (500) was better proportioned and the the best mix of form and function than their morphed-out successors...

Looking forward to the historical photos and documents.

Ely

The 70 year old model was a Mark 5. Mark V (500) model designation came a couple of decades later.

The 70 year old model was a 10E/ER, Mark 5 was introduced in 1953 = 65 years.

rpd wrote:

JPG wrote:

EliWalton wrote:I still think the Shopsmith story should be an exhibit in the Smithsonian... I mean isn't that basic design about 70 years old now? And so many still in active service... Some of us could even argue that the original Mark V (500) was better proportioned and the the best mix of form and function than their morphed-out successors...

Looking forward to the historical photos and documents.

Ely

The 70 year old model was a Mark 5. Mark V (500) model designation came a couple of decades later.

The 70 year old model was a 10E/ER, Mark 5 was introduced in 1953 = 65 years.

YEP! I did not do the math!

I took the statement in context(the original Mark is the best mix of form and function than it's successors). The original was the Mark 5 not the successor Mark V (500).

Too many folks are not aware of "Mark 5"s.

Just to clarify and eliminate some continued parsing of my original post: I just had a couple of very broad points: (a) the original overall design (10E/10ER/Mark II/ V/VII/... et. al.) is museum-worthy and about 70 years old, and (b) the original Mark V (Mark V-500) table size looks better proportioned to me than the larger versions 510, 520, Mark 7).

I apologize if my passion got ahead of my writing accuracy. Thanks!

Ely

EliWalton wrote:Just to clarify and eliminate some continued parsing of my original post: I just had a couple of very broad points: (a) the original overall design (10E/10ER/Mark II/ V/VII/... et. al.) is museum-worthy and about 70 years old, and (b) the original Mark V (Mark V-500) table size looks better proportioned to me than the larger versions 510, 520, Mark 7).

I apologize if my passion got ahead of my writing accuracy. Thanks!

Ely

The Mark V-500 table is identical to a Mark 5 table. I consider the Mark 5 to be "the original".

I know, picky picky, but accurate.

JPG wrote:

EliWalton wrote:Just to clarify and eliminate some continued parsing of my original post: I just had a couple of very broad points: (a) the original overall design (10E/10ER/Mark II/ V/VII/... et. al.) is museum-worthy and about 70 years old, and (b) the original Mark V (Mark V-500) table size looks better proportioned to me than the larger versions 510, 520, Mark 7).

I apologize if my passion got ahead of my writing accuracy. Thanks!

Ely

The Mark V-500 table is identical to a Mark 5 table. I consider the Mark 5 to be "the original".

I know, picky picky, but accurate.

There is nothing wrong with being accurate. Magna made the Mark 5 (numeric 5) starting in 1953. Later Magna American changed it to Mark V (Roman numeral) or was it Yuba. Anyhow both are completely different companies than Magna Engineering that first introduced the Mark 5.