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With a bunch of projects in a time crunch I have had my Power Pro and lift assist sitting in the box for nearly three weeks. I got both installed today and am very pleased with the results. With all the banging and clanking associated with the Power Pro and bandsaw I was a little leary to put the coupler to the PP and bandsaw.

After playing around with the control panel for awhile I went to a test cut of fully 2" ash wall studs from the family barm that was built in 1905--it was dry. I had ripped the ash for some boxes I made for a charity quilt auction with the original SS motor so I knew the demand it placed on the motor. Just like ripping pine with the combination blade on the PP. I was pleased! The task cutting up a piece of pine for moulding between two sliding sliding windows was at hand. Ripping and cutting to length went fine. But the 3/4" thickness had to be cut dow to a little under 3/16". As good a time as any to do some resawing on the bandsaw. Not wanting anything to happen during resawing the moulding piece I selected a 12" piece of the old ash about 3" thick to resaw. I set the PP to 900 rpm an turned it on. No banging or clanking. It did the 3" resaw like it should with no complaints. No problem with cross-cuts either. Using a 1/4" blade with 6 TPI. I will add that I did have the saw-blade and guard in place on the quill end. Also the plastic coupling does have play between the splines on the couplers. So I took the blade and guard off to see what would happen with nothing on the quill end. Resawed the moulding just fine. Next I mounted up the planer to take care of the rough bandsaw cut and plane to final thickness. All ran well--but this is my question. Using the "chart" feature it correctly selected the speed of 4,000 rpm but fortunately before pressing confirm I noticed that it had selected reverse rotation as if the planer was mounted on the quill (right) side of the motor. I'm wondering if that is the same for the other PP's out there? I did confirm that the motor did indeed turn top to the back in the reverse direction. FYI the firmware version is 9.08CSA16.

Also glad I installed the lift assist. That PP is a heavy one.

Regards,
Dwight

Congratulations on your PP installed.
I am sooooo jealous of you but I cannot swing it right now and here in Canada we still do not have access to the PP upgrade, we are offer only a new head ... at 1899$ canadian plus taxes and plus shipping from Toronto, which is almost more than from Ohio.
Anyway it is not in my future right now.
I have talked to Shopsmith about selling to us directly.
We cannot be part of those specials that Shopsmith puts on every week, not offer to us except through some nice US forum members.
Anyway I said it before and I will say it again, Shopsmith is loosing money by not selling to the rest of the world.
Enough of my rant ... Again I congratulate you and work safely.

I have a 2 planers one of which mounts on the bench. I haven't tried to use that planer with my PowerPro. This sure doesn't sound right. I'm gonna go check it out.

Just checked it out. My PowerPro goes to Reverse & click confirm, but I was able to change it to forward & then it ran okay.

Something doesn't seem right. I hope it's a simple change/correction.

I sent a technical request form for technical support & await an answer. Good going DRL.

I've withdrawn my support request. I was looking a t pic & didn't realize it was he motor pan I was looking at. In the immortal word of Homer Simpson, Doh!

Yes, "normal" mounting for the planer is on the quill side when using the PowerPro. This allows feeding from the front(control) side.

Ditto to what jimthej ,Jim in Bakersfield, said. PowerPros automatically set reverse for the planer, when using the embedded speed selector.

Jim, I had never used my bench mounted planer before as I have a stand-alone planer which is easy to move around. It came with a 510 I bought in February. I used the chart & sure enough the DVR menu prompted me to operate in Reverse- Confirm? But I selected Forward & it ran like I believe it is suppose to.

charlese- is that correct?

Yes!...... See this from Oct. 2010
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?p=76372&postcount=53

Thanks! It just seems odd the planer is shown on the right (quill) side of the catalog for a 1982 catalog I looked at for the Mark V. I didn't think the motors went in reverse then unless modified. It's too late for me to set up to actually watch the planer operate. I'll say good night.

charlese- I missed the link. A very long thread! I've got to try it before writing any more. Opps.

p.s. I looked at the pic again and it was the motor pan side; not the quill side. Withdrew my support request.

Thanks for verifying the default reverse setting for the planer. It does fit nicely with SS's philosophy of the numerous ways the SS can be configured to complete a machining task. I have not tried this yet but I would guess the joiner could be on the left end, the table saw in the center and planer on the left. One would just have to lift off the table, remove the blade/guard and hook up the planer. Making 4 square machining a lot faster.

My PP is a factory PP. I also blew out the dust and lubed the old headstock before putting it away in the box. As mentioned in another thread--I see comfort in having a spare. A lot more "magic" going inside the PP.

Regards,
Dwight