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Don't know why, but all the sudden I'm wondering what the oddest thing a Shopsmith has been used for?

I seem to remember a guy rigging up a shaker on the accessory shaft for making frozen Margaritas.

moggymatt wrote:Don't know why, but all the sudden I'm wondering what the oddest thing a Shopsmith has been used for?

I've done woodworking with it. Also used it as a work bench.

I think this picture has you covered.



Polishing the car, making ice cream, painting a wagon, polishing shoes and cutting wood --- all at the same time.

algale wrote:I think this picture has you covered.



Polishing the car, making ice cream, painting a wagon, polishing shoes and cutting wood --- all at the same time.

Pretty cool but scary how he is cross cutting that wood.
Edit: unless the miter gauge is hidden by his arm and shirt

Skou has a pic of some weird thing, could be the Margaretta thing or a blender. Other then possibly the ice cream maker those were all ER attachments/accessories I do believe over the years, maybe the ice cream maker too for all I know.
I am just wondering what is powering them all at the same time, got to be a 3 step pulley system with a lot of belts running off off the ones that are not powering the head stock.

Skizzity wrote:

algale wrote:I think this picture has you covered.



Polishing the car, making ice cream, painting a wagon, polishing shoes and cutting wood --- all at the same time.

Pretty cool but scary how he is cross cutting that wood.
Edit: unless the miter gauge is hidden by his arm and shirt

Magna showed that all the time in their adds.

One of the other ones is the YouTube video of the guy turning a somewhere around a 30' X 12" plus log on a MK V. He was making pillars for his house and did it more than once.

ERLover wrote:Skou has a pic of some weird thing, could be the Margaretta thing or a blender. Other then possibly the ice cream maker those were all ER attachments/accessories I do believe over the years, maybe the ice cream maker too for all I know.
I am just wondering what is powering them all at the same time, got to be a 3 step pulley system with a lot of belts running off off the ones that are not powering the head stock.

Well, the sprayer needs air. The SS air compressor was a MK V item. It could/can be run on the 10ER like all the MK V SPT's once Magna made the SPT adapters at the end of the Model 10 run. The SPT's were driven from the pulley end of the head stock. No compressor in sight. The flex shaft for the car buffer is run from the right hand quill end. You can't saw and run the flex shaft at the same time. The picture shows two flex shafts connected together. That will certainly work. I have two here.

Ice cream churn. Certainly possible and a good idea. SS product, no.

That picture is 1950's advertising hype. See, things have not changes so much in 65 years.

jsburger wrote:

ERLover wrote:Skou has a pic of some weird thing, could be the Margaretta thing or a blender. Other then possibly the ice cream maker those were all ER attachments/accessories I do believe over the years, maybe the ice cream maker too for all I know.
I am just wondering what is powering them all at the same time, got to be a 3 step pulley system with a lot of belts running off off the ones that are not powering the head stock.

Well, the sprayer needs air. The SS air compressor was a MK V item. It could/can be run on the 10ER like all the MK V SPT's once Magna made the SPT adapters at the end of the Model 10 run. The SPT's were driven from the pulley end of the head stock. No compressor in sight. The flex shaft for the car buffer is run from the right hand quill end. You can't saw and run the flex shaft at the same time. The picture shows two flex shafts connected together. That will certainly work. I have two here.

Ice cream churn. Certainly possible and a good idea. SS product, no.

That picture is 1950's advertising hype. See, things have not changes so much in 65 years.

Ya it has, Photo Shop.

When my Son was in high school, he picked up a used limited slip differential in the wrecking yard for his Chevelle. As you would expect from an almost 40 year old part, it was badly worn so the limited slip didn't work anymore. He took it apart and determined that if he could mill down one piece, it should work again.
He put a grind stone on my Shopsmith in drill press mode and carefully milled the piece down a few thousandths of an inch. He reassembled it again and it worked.
If any of you guys are really mechanically savy about old cars, you probably know something about the Auburn limited slip differentials and that they are not rebuildable when worn out. The one my Son found was a similar design made by Warner gear, and it too wasn't rebuildable. He managed to make it work again with a little Shopsmith "machine work". The work he did added a bit of end play which isn't a good thing, but that rear end worked again for him in spite of that. The car had positraction after that with his repaired differential.