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How many can you get?

I will take it off the plane in which you offered it.... hopefully I can get them all... depends on my wallet

Everett

It's a beautiful drawing, isn't it?

That reminds me Everett I still need to scan my Mark 2 manual at high resolution for you. I have not forgotten but I need to move it up in the pile.

I have most of these in one form or another. The ones I don't have I will I don't think I'll add to my collection unless things change over the next couple of years.

It is a fun sketch.

Ed

tomsalwasser wrote:It's a beautiful drawing, isn't it?

That reminds me Everett I still need to scan my Mark 2 manual at high resolution for you. I have not forgotten but I need to move it up in the pile.

I look forward to receiving it. I am working hard to take the Mark 2 and Mark VII into highly legible documents with scalable drawings, and I am going to reach out to some folks who have one to help me stage and closely reproduce high resolution (color) photos to replace each of the photos in the original manuals. I will need proof readers, and photo submissions as I engage them.

A fellow at Vintage Machinery having seen some of my work asked me to re-create a PTWFE 1953 10ER Based manual in a High Res PDF.

That one, due to the sheer scope of the project is at the bottom of my work pile so to speak. If I ever do that, I am going to attempt to recreate all the 10ER photos in color, realizing that they did not use Magna Bandsaw or Jointer, as they had not created them when R.J. Christoforo wrote it for Magna. Those likely will remain in Black and White, unless forum members own those models and would contribute.

I ordered the documents on both from Shopsmith, which are reproductions (photocopies) of what they found when they bought the Magna plant inventories many years after Magna went out of business. Shopsmith, Inc. as a company never made any of that gear. The quality of the documents are not good, and why I seek high resolution originals.

In the vein of user supported, I thought these sorts of contributions would help others who had that gear to have more legible documentation here in the forums, if I can do them justice.

Montgomery Wards made their version of the machine, and they did have some quality issues. Users here have weighed in on those and offered potential solutions for some of the more common weaknesses.

It would be nice to capture and include some of those as well.

Everett

interesting puzzle! I have most of what is shown but not necessarily in the same form. Those tools I don't have, - the results can be duplicated with my machinery. I have a Mark V, 510! with many attachments (SPTs)

Reminds me of when, 40 years ago, a friend asked me to put together a list of tools he should buy for home repair, auto repair/tuneup and woodwork. I told him that if he didn't know what tools he needed he didn't need them and then suggested he go to the local library and do some research to decide what he was willing to learn to do - they buy the tools. He is still clueless and tool-less. Now we have the internet which is easier than the library. But one still must have the desire to learn. That seems to include everyone here - even the stalwart experts.

db5 wrote:...But one still must have the desire to learn. That seems to include everyone here - even the stalwart experts.

Well said DB. I am always grateful for answers to my questions. I always question the answers of people who never ask questions of their own!