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Interesting clone
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 11:15 pm
by heathicus
http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/tls/3816228259.html
Not really a true clone as it is very different, yet the same basic idea. I've never seen this design before.
Shopsmith Clone?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 11:37 pm
by wvthomas
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 9:15 am
by heathicus
I had heard of the SuperShop name before, and had seen the version in the brochure you linked to. But, I've never seen either of the other versions - the one in the CL ad I linked to, or the more primitive version you found at Vintage Machinery. I wasn't aware that the SuperShop name went back that far.
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 9:43 am
by frank81
Do those knobs turn on the garden hose?
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 9:51 am
by heathicus
After looking over it all a little more, I don't think there's any relation between the older Supershops and the Fox/Smithy Supershop. The other two (the one in the CL ad, and the ones on Vintage Machinery) share some similarities. A stationary headstock, moveable and more traditional tailstock, square ways (a flat side up on the older version, a corner facing up on the one on the CL ad), the pivot location, etc. Plus, both were made by a company called Power Tools, Inc.
The more recent Fox/Smithy SuperShop (aka Harbor Freight Central Machinery) seems to only share the name (and general multifunction tool concept).
frank81 wrote:Do those knobs turn on the garden hose?
LOL I had thought the same thing!
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 10:57 am
by JPG
frank81 wrote:Do those knobs turn on the garden hose?
Nope, the bath tub!:D
Laugh if thee must, back then all the fancy knobs available today were non-existant. Methinks they are a well executed use of readily available resources. IIUC, they are clamping knobs.
Beloit, WI - I did not know anything other than the college was there way back then.
