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I bought my Shopsmith Mark 5 for $150 a couple years ago and I was going to use it as a stand alone machine to basically build a homemade drumsander. I have since mounted my Porter Cable router into the tablesaw base and use it for a router table. The video I made is a tour of how I built these tools and attachments and the future plans I have to improve the design and functionality. These were just proof of concept, but I have since used them in production and I am ready to modify them and improve them. When I purchased the SS it did not come with a tailstock, so I built my own for use with the drumsander. It is a simple design. I like to not over-engineer things and I am actually surprised how functional it is. I would enjoy to hear your thoughts on my setup so far and will gladly accept feedback from the folks here.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hpB4Kn2KE[/youtube]

MakinSawdust wrote:I bought my Shopsmith Mark 5 for $150 a couple years ago and I was going to use it as a stand alone machine to basically build a homemade drumsander. I have since mounted my Porter Cable router into the tablesaw base and use it for a router table. The video I made is a tour of how I built these tools and attachments and the future plans I have to improve the design and functionality. These were just proof of concept, but I have since used them in production and I am ready to modify them and improve them. When I purchased the SS it did not come with a tailstock, so I built my own for use with the drumsander. It is a simple design. I like to not over-engineer things and I am actually surprised how functional it is. I would enjoy to hear your thoughts on my setup so far and will gladly accept feedback from the folks here.

Welcome aboard.

I have been posting your videos here in another. thread.

p.s. The way the forum software is written the [youtube] function doesn't process properly using the embed link with the dot between the u and the b. If you use the actual url it will work properly.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-hpB4Kn2KE[/youtube]

very clever tailstock! Thanks for sharing...look forward to seeing what you come up with next.

This the second video in this series. I install a dust collection shroud and hook up my shop vac. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-C68jqL1Ok[/youtube]