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Could someone attach a PDF copy of your jigsaw owner's manual to a PM to me or to an email??

I sold a jigsaw several years ago but let the manual go with it. I should have made a copy but didn't.

I am also looking for a copy of the SS owner's manual for a SS Mark V mounted planer??

Thanks

Here is a link to the Jigsaw manual http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=10571

and here is a link to the manual for the Pro Planer, similar but different somehow. http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=15239

rpd wrote:Here is a link to the Jigsaw manual http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=10571

and here is a link to the manual for the Pro Planer, similar but different somehow. http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/detail.aspx?id=15239

This is the original 10 page jig saw manual. Email Me bill.mayo@verizon.net for the latest Shopsmith 52 page jig saw manual. It will be in 2 Emails from me. I believe some one on the Forum has a PDF version of this manual available but I misplaced the reference.

Thanks all!! I have the owner's manual for the SS Pro Planer. The Mark V installation appears to be that it just sits on the way tubes at the far end so it can't move any further and simply connects to the Power head. What puzzled me is I wonder why they designed it so that you have to be on the far side of the SS to operate it unless I am missing something. If you mount it on the quill side it would turn the wrong way wouldn't it? I would like to see a picture of the planer mounted on a Mark V.

Don G

dgreen810 wrote:Thanks all!! I have the owner's manual for the SS Pro Planer. The Mark V installation appears to be that it just sits on the way tubes at the far end so it can't move any further and simply connects to the Power head. What puzzled me is I wonder why they designed it so that you have to be on the far side of the SS to operate it unless I am missing something. If you mount it on the quill side it would turn the wrong way wouldn't it? I would like to see a picture of the planer mounted on a Mark V.

Don G

Of course! That is why it has to be mounted the way it is. You can still mount it anywhere along the way tubes depending on where the head stock is. It does not have to be all the way to the left end.

The cutter must rotate so as to 'plow' cut.

Since the cutter is above the workpiece, the bottom of the cutter must be moving against the feed direction.

There are only two ends of the cutter shaft to attach to the SS shaft(s).

Moving the planer to the quill side would require driving from the opposite side of the planer. That still requires feeding from the back side.

Reversing the planer on the way tubes so as to place the infeed side towards the ss controls requires the ss shafts to rotate in reverse(the PP does that).

i.e. As long as the cutters are 'above' the reference surface(table) the input shaft must rotate in a direction that provides that plow rotation.

This requires much consideration of possible variations to understand it must be the way it is(there is no alternative other than to reverse direction of rotation regardless of which side of the headstock the planer is mounted or how it is oriented thereon).

I agree with all that has been said. The only thing I was thinking when I remarked sitting it to the far side was, it seems to slide very easily on the tubes and in using it could result in becoming disconnected simply by vibration which it has already done once planning a couple of 2 x 6 and the whole unit sitting on rubber wheels since it can't be lowered to the concrete with this set up.

Also, as you can see in the photos this SS was an original Mark VII and the motor on that unit, as I understand it, was reversible. That being the case it would allow the planer to be mounted on either end or am I missing something again?

Don G

dgreen810 wrote:I agree with all that has been said. The only thing I was thinking when I remarked sitting it to the far side was, it seems to slide very easily on the tubes and in using it could result in becoming disconnected simply by vibration which it has already done once planning a couple of 2 x 6 and the whole unit sitting on rubber wheels since it can't be lowered to the concrete with this set up.

Also, as you can see in the photos this SS was an original Mark VII and the motor on that unit, as I understand it, was reversible. That being the case it would allow the planer to be mounted on either end or am I missing something again?

Don G

Why not? Casters too big?

BTW You might consider adding a foot spacer(1/2"?) so it again can rest on the floor.

Either end and oriented so the infeed side is the control side(unless I am missing something). I am planning on that working on a VII. My only concern is the reliance on a cantilever beam setup. I assume sufficient room so the planer does not interfere with the way tube gear rack.

dgreen810 wrote:I agree with all that has been said. The only thing I was thinking when I remarked sitting it to the far side was, it seems to slide very easily on the tubes and in using it could result in becoming disconnected simply by vibration which it has already done once planning a couple of 2 x 6 and the whole unit sitting on rubber wheels since it can't be lowered to the concrete with this set up.

Also, as you can see in the photos this SS was an original Mark VII and the motor on that unit, as I understand it, was reversible. That being the case it would allow the planer to be mounted on either end or am I missing something again?

Don G

While I'm not an expert nor do I have the mark v mounted planer....it looks like in this picture that there is a mounting bracket under the planer to keep it from moving. http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/cata ... aner_l.jpg

Skizzity wrote:

dgreen810 wrote:I agree with all that has been said. The only thing I was thinking when I remarked sitting it to the far side was, it seems to slide very easily on the tubes and in using it could result in becoming disconnected simply by vibration which it has already done once planning a couple of 2 x 6 and the whole unit sitting on rubber wheels since it can't be lowered to the concrete with this set up.

Also, as you can see in the photos this SS was an original Mark VII and the motor on that unit, as I understand it, was reversible. That being the case it would allow the planer to be mounted on either end or am I missing something again?

Don G

While I'm not an expert nor do I have the mark v mounted planer....it looks like in this picture that there is a mounting bracket under the planer to keep it from moving. http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/cata ... aner_l.jpg

Yep. Two of them. Clamps the planer to the way tubes.