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http://ebay.com/itm/221340920600

Ends tonight. Good luck to whoever gets it!

Shhhh, I've been drooling for days. It's the same guy with a 510 shorty under a 100 last time I checked and the interesting Drill press mod JPG posted about.

I won this auction from the same guy last night:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221340935012?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

It's about a 5 hour drive from where I live, but well worth it for two planers at that price. I have folks in VA I need to visit too, so it all works out.

[quote="reddog5362"]Shhhh, I've been drooling for days. It's the same guy with a 510 shorty under a 100 last time I checked and the interesting Drill press mod JPG posted about.
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Drool no more!:(

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221340920600?ss ... 1438.l2649

The shorty is still available. I think the drillpress is also. Yep! A DC also! And a lot of smaller stuff.

crosscreekcraig wrote:I won this auction from the same guy last night:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/221340935012?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

It's about a 5 hour drive from where I live, but well worth it for two planers at that price. I have folks in VA I need to visit too, so it all works out.

Great. I have the parts (remains) of a few Thickness Planers available plus have rebuilt a few of them. Most likely the table mounting posts (jacking shaft) have been slighty bent when the planer was dropped with the table contacting the floor. I found the planer was easier to rebuild than the headstock. There are shim type washers located on both ends of the shafts that you will want to keep track of and where they go. You will need a knife setting gauge to set the plane knives. Contact me off-line if any questions or you need the knives sharpen or any parts. Thanks.

Now I've got to find a location for it...

henecle wrote:Now I've got to find a location for it...

Fear Not! It has a small foot print!:D

Nice buy!

Gonna reverse it?

billmayo wrote:Great. I have the parts (remains) of a few Thickness Planers available plus have rebuilt a few of them. Most likely the table mounting posts (jacking shaft) have been slighty bent when the planer was dropped with the table contacting the floor. I found the planer was easier to rebuild than the headstock. There are shim type washers located on both ends of the shafts that you will want to keep track of and where they go. You will need a knife setting gauge to set the plane knives. Contact me off-line if any questions or you need the knives sharpen or any parts. Thanks.

Good to know, Bill. Thanks! I'll let you know once I get these home and have a chance to inspect them. My thoughts are converting the hand fed to motorized, fixing the table lift on the currently motorized one and selling one of them and possibly building another MKV shorty to fit a planer on one side and my jointer on the other. Or sell one planer and save my money and quit buying more Shopsmith stuff -----NAH !

crosscreekcraig wrote:Good to know, Bill. Thanks! I'll let you know once I get these home and have a chance to inspect them. My thoughts are converting the hand fed to motorized, fixing the table lift on the currently motorized one and selling one of them and possibly building another MKV shorty to fit a planer on one side and my jointer on the other. Or sell one planer and save my money and quit buying more Shopsmith stuff -----NAH !

Not to disagree with Bill(I DO agree re bent jack screws), but if the chain has slipped on the sprocket so they are 'out of sync', the 'elevator' can get jammed that way. Step one: loosen chain, then determine cause by rotating each jack screw separately. Each one should rotate the same amount(each direction) prior to 'lockup' as a rough setup. I do not think the pivots on the screw 'followers' are free enough to rotate in the table 'bores'.

That shorty would need to be 'reversible'.

JPG40504 wrote:Not to disagree with Bill(I DO agree re bent jack screws), but if the chain has slipped on the sprocket so they are 'out of sync', the 'elevator' can get jammed that way. Step one: loosen chain, then determine cause by rotating each jack screw separately. Each one should rotate the same amount(each direction) prior to 'lockup' as a rough setup. I do not think the pivots on the screw 'followers' are free enough to rotate in the table 'bores'.

That shorty would need to be 'reversible'.

Thanks for the tip, JPG. And thanks for pointing out my error]http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/catalog/planers.htm[/URL]