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Serial number lookup
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:41 am
by danbean
How do I look up the age of my machine based on the serial number?
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:44 am
by admin
number check
Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:32 pm
by chiroindixon
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....
Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:10 am
by wurlitzerwilly
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!
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 10:46 pm
by Bruce
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.
Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 11:39 pm
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
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:03 pm
by Bruce
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.
Bruce
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 6:15 pm
by reible
It is at the shopsmith site:
http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/faq/markv.htm
down at the bottom of the page.
Ed
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:38 am
by Bruce
Thanks,
I've never seen that particular page before.
Bruce
Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:06 pm
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?