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A Shopsmith band-saw met a Skilsaw table saw.

http://tiedyehut.wordpress.com/2013/07/ ... -band-saw/

Doesn't say anything about how he did this but it interesting.

That is a mutant for sure! Thanks for the post.

rlkeeney wrote:A Shopsmith band-saw met a Skilsaw table saw.

http://tiedyehut.wordpress.com/2013/07/ ... -band-saw/

Doesn't say anything about how he did this but it interesting.

At first, I thought it was one of the dozen or so Shopsmith bandsaws where I attached with modified brackets, the 500 main table many years ago before Shopsmith came out with their aluminum table bandsaw. It is not a 500 table on that bandsaw. The 500 main table is 14" X 18" along with using the 500 fence was much cheaper upgrade than the new aluminum bandsaw table which is 13" X 15" and needs a different fence. I still think I had an excellant way for improving the bandsaw functionality at a cheap price.

billmayo wrote:At first, I thought it was one of the dozen or so Shopsmith bandsaws where I attached with modified brackets, the 500 main table many years ago before Shopsmith came out with their aluminum table bandsaw. It is not a 500 table on that bandsaw. The 500 main table is 14" X 18" along with using the 500 fence was much cheaper upgrade than the new aluminum bandsaw table which is 13" X 15" and needs a different fence. I still think I had an excellant way for improving the bandsaw functionality at a cheap price.

Bill do you have a picture of your upgrade ?

2centsworth wrote:Bill do you have a picture of your upgrade ?

My computer hard drive died a few years ago so I lost all my earlier pictures. These conversions occured many years ago and I sold all of them. I mounted these modified 500 tables on both the bandsaw and the jig saw. I had a few dozen 500s that I had accumulated over many years and needed to do something with their main tables. I don't remember but believe I used either 1/8" or 1/4" flat aluminum plate for the brackets between the 500 table and bandsaw and jig saw. I had to remove the fence front rail each time if I wanted to change the bandsaw blade. I cut a groove to the front of the 500 table for the bandsaw blade and made a table insert to work with the bandsaw blade. I can drill and tap holes as needed for these types of conversions. I still stock a lot of flat and angle aluminum for making these items. I can only tack weld aluminum so an aluminum welder person can finish my work. I have a metal cutting bandsaw to do my metal cutting. I can do limited milling operations and have a metal lathe for machining of metals.

Recently, I have taken a 500 main table and cut the legs off the trunnion bar. I jigged up a frame so I could weld the legs setting in the base arm SPT holes and this table clamped to a second 500 main table settting in a carriage on the tubes between two base arms. This allowed for an extension table on either end of the 500 where the fence could slide from the main table to the extension table. I have four more of these setting in my shop waiting for this modification. I found this modified trunnion and table really works well on the Power Station as this table can be tilted.
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The sleeve and insert assembly holds this modified extension table legs on the 500 and set screws hold them on the Power Station.

My latest project was to make a regular 500 main table function as an extension table without cutting any legs. I have put together a 500 carriage with two legs welded under the carriage to fit in the SPT mounting holes. The regular 500 main table will be mounted in this carriage and function just like the main 500 table. Same alignment for sliding of the fence. I have to play with both types of thes modifications to see what benefits eash have when compared to the other one. I do have a lot of fun playing with these types of modifications.