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Serial number lookup

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How do I look up the age of my machine based on the serial number?
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Go to the Shopsmith.com site and open the owners section. Next on a top bar, open the Mark V section. A selection list will drop down. Select serial numbers and you should get chart of serial numbers and the year built. Easy....
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danbean wrote:How do I look up the age of my machine based on the serial number?
Use this link:
http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/serialnumber.htm
Cut and paste. Straight in - no searching!
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Okay, so my serial number is 204330. From the list, I could have a 1985 or 1986 model. I thinks SS told me once it was a 1985, but there is no way to know from this chart. Now they use the date of manufacture, so I guess they make at most one per day. That makes it a lot easier if you have a newer machine.
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Post by reible »

Serial number 204330 would be in the May (203746) July (205719) time frame of 1985.

Ed

Sorry the july should be june.... ed
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reible wrote:Serial number 204330 would be in the May (203746) July (205719) time frame of 1985.

Ed
Ed,
How do you know that? You must have access to a list I haven't seen.

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It is at the shopsmith site:
http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/faq/markv.htm
down at the bottom of the page.

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Thanks,
I've never seen that particular page before.

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Post by PTWFE »

A question about the serial number chart at the Shopsmith site: It seems to break between 1961 and 1978 but didn't Shopsmith, Inc. begin producing Mark V's in 1973 or around that time?
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