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Hi, my name is Steve, and I'm a Shop(smith)aholic.

Just found my second ER in 4 weeks.

(Third, if we count the one my brother in Vegas is parting out for me.)

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/tls/4040604710.html
(This link is now dead.)

Since I'm without a truck, he's delivering it to me.

I was pricing the stuff I still need to get my ER FrankenSmith running, and this looks to be about the same. Plus, I get a bunch of extra goodies, including a second coffee table. Getting this, and the Magna dado blade I got off of Ebay, I'll have almost all the pieces I need. Only thing left, is a MkV bandsaw.

steve

That's a great looking 10er. I too am an admitted Shopsmith addict. I am in recovery at the moment,but that's just because of limited space and funds. Perhaps we should be known as "friends of John F" after John Folkerth.

Nice find! Looks to be in great shape - just the original light alone usually sell for at least $30

dgale wrote:Nice find! Looks to be in great shape - just the original light alone usually sell for at least $30

Outside of the "A" and "B" SPT adapters, that is the rarest ER goodie to find. And, I lost one in the fire. Hope that Sheep Dip didn't realize what he had. (The guy who scavenged my burned-out trailer, not this guy.) And, since my FrankenSmith has a MkV headrest, I don't need an SPT adapter.

The legs and casters go for, together, about 1 bill, too.

Archer, I'm in a 650 SF apartment. I'm thinking of "Friends of Hans Goldschmidt." While John kept me in parts for a few years, and his company is STILL building Shopsmiths with ERs, it was Hans who designed this machine. (And, except for this miniscule saw table, my ERs are better machines than anyone's MkWhatever.) Sorry, just funning!:D

steve

I still believe that you can't have too many ShopSmith's but I finally did admit that you can have too many in the same shop...


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Got this one today. Most of the usual stuff, plus a shaper/jointer attachment, and drum sander with 8 ANTIQUE drums. Disc sander with more archaic discs.

It came with a jigsaw insert for the table, but no jigsaw.

Only things I need now, are a live center, dado/shaper arbor, and lathe tools. And, a tiebar. I've got a spare set of drive stuff, (drive shaft and quill) and bench stuff, too. (3 sets of legs with casters.) This "new" coffee table will either be a complete ER, or go into the bedroom. This one was built a few inches short, the tiebar is 4 inches from the end of the ways, but the headrest (and pivot base) are at the ends of the boards.

All in all, I'm happy! (If I could only stay off of Craigslist!)

steve

I noticed on this one, it is assembled about 4 inches too short, and the bench top pieces are also short.

So, I'm moving the whole thing over to my "coffee table" bench, which is about 2 inches too long. (Or, 6 inches longer than the other one.)

A strange thing I've noticed, the bench bolts and nuts are all square head, not hex head. Well, the bolts that hold down the headrest and pivot base have slot screw heads, and square nuts. The diagonal braces for the legs have square head screws. Welcome to the '40s. (I can remember my father getting boxes of "stove bolts" at the hardware store, that had square heads. I think they were for old-fashioned wood-burning stoves.)

I think I'm going to have a complete ER as a coffee table, not just the bench.

steve

skou wrote:I noticed on this one, it is assembled about 4 inches too short, and the bench top pieces are also short.

So, I'm moving the whole thing over to my "coffee table" bench, which is about 2 inches too long. (Or, 6 inches longer than the other one.)

A strange thing I've noticed, the bench bolts and nuts are all square head, not hex head. Well, the bolts that hold down the headrest and pivot base have slot screw heads, and square nuts. The diagonal braces for the legs have square head screws. Welcome to the '40s. (I can remember my father getting boxes of "stove bolts" at the hardware store, that had square heads. I think they were for old-fashioned wood-burning stoves.)



I think I'm going to have a complete ER as a coffee table, not just the bench.

steve

Hex heads are a 'recent' innovation.

[quote="JPG40504"]Hex heads are a 'recent' innovation.]

I recall somewhere in a car-restoration "memoir" book, a fellow had lots of fun finding out that the old Rolls Royce cars used only square-head bolts. The Rolls founder was a stickler for utter quality in the nth level, and didn't buy into hex-heads for decades.

I've just re-thought my ER lathe extension.

I was going to use a semi-dedicated drill-press, and butt them nose to tail, and join them with a tailstock and oak plugs inside the way tubes at the join.

My new idea, make a real dedicated drill-press, and since I've got all the parts, just make an extension. Tilt base on a drill-press short stand, with way tubes a tailstock above the tilt base, and a carriage above that, and a tiebar with the center threads drilled out, that will allow me to put the long tailstock bolt through everything, and pull it all together. Store it vertically, and when I want to turn long stuff, just drop it to horizontal, put the oak plugs in, put a tailstock mounted upside down at the join, and pull everything together.

The only thing actually ON the way tubes, would be the "brace" tailstock at the join, the second carriage, and a tiebar at the top giving me almost a whole way tube longer lathe.

Except for an extra tiebar, I've got all I need. That will be good for over an 80 inch, by 12+ inch spindle (I just set an extension table, upside down on the ways, and it is about 7 inches to the center of the spindle. The carriage, pivot end, and upside down tailstock all stick up about as much as the upside down ext table.

If 7 feet isn't quite enough, I can always use the drill-press the way I was thinking about, and have 3 ERs hooked together.

Crazy? I think so!

steve