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In 2007, Home Shop Machinist ran a series of four articles by Robert L. Bailey titled: "Shopsmith Adventures- Converting a Shopsmith to Cut Metal". In these articles he converted his Mark V to mill metal, added a speed reducer, drill sharpener, and several other modifications. They are very interesting articles, and exhibit some impressive capabilities of the MKV. At the end of the first article he mentions a writing assistant, his neighbor Patricia Johnson. A few years ago there was a website called Shopmachineadventures which had articles, (available for purchase), detailing several modifications that weren't published in Home Shop Machinist. These articles were a continuation of the articles in the magazine. The website is no longer active. I've contacted the publisher of Home Shop Machinist, but they have no contact information for Robert Bailey or his co-author.

I have the magazines containing the first four articles. I would like to find copies of the additional articles. I'm hoping that someone here may have purchased those additional articles and still has them. Or, someone may have contact with Bailey or his co-author, and a way to contact them to obtain the articles. Any information is appreciated.

Also, if you haven't read about this modified machine, it's very interesting even if you have no real plan to work metal. It's amazing what this guy accomplished with his Mark V.

You might try
http://boyerfour.com/metal/mymill/mymill.htm has a piece by Chris Boyer you may find helpful as well as this PDF from Bill Cleary

Bill Mayo shows his setup that he uses in Sheave repair in this post, in a thread about Shopsmith Lathe Chucks http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewt ... 756#p91756 There's a bit of discussion you may find of help.

Everett

Did some searching and found

Shopsmith Adventures - Converting a Shopsmith to Cut Metal - Part One Robert L. Bailey HSM Vol. 26 No. 3 May-Jun 2007
Shopsmith Adventures - Converting a Shopsmith to Cut Metal - Part Two Robert L. Bailey HSM Vol. 26 No. 4 Jul-Aug 2007
Shopsmith Adventures - Converting a Shopsmith to Cut Metal - Part Three Robert L. Bailey HSM Vol. 26 No. 5 Sep-Oct 2007
Shopsmith Adventures -- Converting a Shopsmith to Cut Metal - Part Four Robert L. Bailey HSM Vol. 26 No. 6 Nov-Dec 2007

I went to the index of articles cached from the site, and indeed the index only has One through Four. Most curious was the fact that Robert L. Bailey wrote a number of articles for them from 2003 to 2007. That shows to be the last article he wrote based on the index. I did not find part Five Conclusion, nor anything by him after that article. Don’t know what happened to Robert after that as his contributions ceased after that date, based on the index.

I did a Google Search for 'Robert L. Bailey Shopsmith Adventures - Converting a Shopsmith to Cut Metal' and found the HSM Article Index.xlsx which contained that data.

Everett

Send me a PM; if you have exhausted all options, then I have Parts 5/6/7. Seems like the series ended before it should have.

Chris