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Posted: **Thu Oct 31, 2024 3:05 pm**

Calling it the PowerPro Smart motor is fine. So is just Smart Motor when the non-PowerPro is called a Conventional Headstock or Conventional Motor. Calling the conventional headstock a Smart Motor doesn't make a lot of sense.

Posted: **Thu Oct 31, 2024 4:15 pm**

The term "Idler" is the one that bothers me.

It always has, for the 40 or so years I've called the Mark 5/V/7/4 headstock a headstock. (Which I know is a small number of years compared to some here. jpg.) But when we want to communicate we should use words with a common understanding. So I use Idler and Headstock to describe things found in hundreds of thousands of Marks and Manuals made over 70 or so years. I use "Smart Motor" mockingly or to look up something on ShopSmith's web site.

It amuses me that I find the term 'motor' three times in the description of a single part that isn't a motor. For Example: "PowerPro Smart Motor Motor Outer Motor Mount" aka PowerPro Outer Motor Mount.

- David

Posted: **Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:14 pm**

GetterDone wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 12:18 am I think "Common Sense" motor would be a better term for Old guys in a world that is changing/adjusting to a different Generation.

It's the same in the automotive industry. I remember the old deuce and halves and 5 tons; manual transmissions, no computers, modules, etc. KISS method!
The newer trucks get hosed by being a couple of millivolts off and the whole truck shuts down or goes into "protective" mode. Not good for the next big conflict!!

LTC (R)
Former DoD Mil Tech Maintenance Supervisor

Posted: **Fri Nov 29, 2024 12:03 am**

stihlsawer wrote: Thu Nov 28, 2024 12:14 pm
GetterDone wrote: Sun Sep 22, 2024 12:18 am I think "Common Sense" motor would be a better term for Old guys in a world that is changing/adjusting to a different Generation.
It's the same in the automotive industry. I remember the old deuce and halves and 5 tons; manual transmissions, no computers, modules, etc. KISS method!
The newer trucks get hosed by being a couple of millivolts off and the whole truck shuts down or goes into "protective" mode. Not good for the next big conflict!!

LTC (R)
Former DoD Mil Tech Maintenance Supervisor

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