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I picked up an old scroll saw (jig saw?) at a yard sale yesterday for $2. It looked pretty grubby, had not been used in years (spider webs, dirt and sawdust all over) but it cleaned up ok and on dis-assembly, appeared to be little worn. I wire brushed the worst of the rust off the parts, greased the innards and hooked it to the Shopsmith. Conveniently, the shaft is 5/8" diameter. It was obviously designed to be minimum cost to manufacture, has sleeve bearings and is very lightly made. It is missing the hold down foot.

I used the same base as on my 2" belt sander, i.e. floor flanges and pipe nipples bolted to the extruded aluminum horizontal piece; very easy to assemble and line up with the coupler. Amazingly, it actually works pretty good.

peterm, that is a neat adaptation of a tool not designed for the ShopSmith!

$2??!!!!

Forrest

Yup, $2.00

They were clearing out an old garage and I had to tell the guy what it was. After that, still only $2. I like yard sales!