Shopsmith Forums

Got to spend some time helping my grandson build a Pinewood Derby race car today. The design was all done by the kid. Grampa cut it out on the bandsaw and Jackson did the finish work. He got to learn how to use a wood float to do the first clean-up and then used a sanding block to do the finish work. A GOOD day in the shop!
[ATTACH]16035[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]16036[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]16037[/ATTACH]

I bought another Shopsmith. A Mark V Model 510 that included the Incra TS-III fence, a Mark V planer, a jointer and a bunch of accessories- extra planer & jointer blades & more. The headstock tells me it was made in 1991, but it is in better shape than any other used Shopsmith I have ever purchased.

I went to the grocery store for some paste wax and they looked at me like I had two heads. Where do you think I can get some locally or what would you recommend on the way tubes & other pieces?

Thanks.

Tony

I have a Power Pro going in tonight or tomorrow morning. I also bought the double tilt base, so Mark 7, he I come- I think. Is there anything else required?

Thanks.

backhertz wrote:I bought another Shopsmith. A Mark V Model 510 that included the Incra TS-III fence, a Mark V planer, a jointer and a bunch of accessories- extra planer & jointer blades & more. The headstock tells me it was made in 1991, but it is in better shape than any other used Shopsmith I have ever purchased.

I went to the grocery store for some paste wax and they looked at me like I had two heads. Where do you think I can get some locally or what would you recommend on the way tubes & other pieces?

Thanks.

Tony

I have a Power Pro going in tonight or tomorrow morning. I also bought the double tilt base, so Mark 7, he I come- I think. Is there anything else required?

Thanks.

HD in the cleaning supplies department(not the paint department).


Key words(all must be there). S C Johnson Paste wax The Original Formula.

UPC 46500 00202

Yellow can with red stripe.

Originally intended to be used as floor wax. It is too slippery, so a non-original formula is intended for that market(As I unnerstan it)

16 oz can with a pry off lid.

Lowes and Ace Hardware also stock it in the cleaning sections. paste wax seems a bit to high brow for grocery stores. Jim

fjimp wrote:Lowes and Ace Hardware also stock it in the cleaning sections. paste wax seems a bit to high brow for grocery stores. Jim

Mop n Glo is there forte! Rub on and polish is too labor intensive!;)

Thanks gents. Product is in hand with yellow stripe from HD just before it closed. I figured I'd clean up everything as I put it back together. The 510 owner had never seen the Shopsmith taken apart. I've done it about a dozen times and broke it down in 5-10 minutes. Just getting to the two Allen head screws on the upper way tubes was a little tricky without a flashlight, but even though I brought a rubber mallet, didn't need to use it. I guess it's the 10E/ERs that give me the most trouble in removing the way tubes after 60 or so years of not being disturbed.
But a few whacks with a soft rubber mallet always does the trick & then I pull off the headstock, bada bing, bada bang- but no bang,bang or even a tap, tap on a new Mark V. Perhaps on a Greenie.

So my work table is set up to install the Power Pro & the double tilt base. I have to take pics. I now have a TS-III Incra table saw fence. I need the rest of the system for the "ultimate" router set up. I saw 3 videos on You Tube the other day on the Incra Wonder Fence on blind dove tails done 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 with no trouble at all. It's amazing what all this stuff can do.

But the real highlight of my day was using a fairly new Lie-Nielson hand plane. Heavy! Razor sharp! See through shavings! I have to have one or two or three.... I bought a $9.99 Harbor Freight hand plane and spent over an hour flattening the base on diamond plates & then with sandpaper on a granite plate. I thought I did good & then sharpened the blade so I could easily shave hair- but it's still garbage compared to the Lie-Nielson plane.

Well it's getting late & I have way tubes to shine up.

bffulgham wrote:Got to spend some time helping my grandson build a Pinewood Derby race car today. The design was all done by the kid. Grampa cut it out on the bandsaw and Jackson did the finish work. He got to learn how to use a wood float to do the first clean-up and then used a sanding block to do the finish work. A GOOD day in the shop!
[ATTACH]16035[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]16036[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]16037[/ATTACH]

Nice to see!

mrhart wrote:Nice to see!

Thank you.

Forgot to say in the "What did I use today".....
A Webelo.....
Guess that's what they are calling the 10-year-old Cub Scouts these days

I hope I get to use a Webelo in the shop many more times
Got 2 more (Well, not Webelos yet, but grandkids), and another on the way.

Nothing exciting today but last week there was a different use of the Mark V. Used the support tubes to hold a platform (actually a jig for shutters). Used the platform as an assembly table to glue and clamp together sections of my new box bed support.

The first pix shows 1/2 of the bed frame standing on end in the foreground, while another 1/4 of the frame is in clamps on the platform.

[ATTACH]16070[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]16071[/ATTACH]

SS router table (turned into a bench-top router stand) to make some trim
510 to rip the trim
DeWalt miter saw to miter the trim

Completed the assembly of my barrister bookcase. Ready for a final sanding and finish....as soon as I get a couple of warm days.
[ATTACH]16170[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]16171[/ATTACH]

[ATTACH]16172[/ATTACH]