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10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:52 pm
by Forda
I have just been getting my Shopsmith 10ER working and I set it up as a drill press. Checking the perpendicularity of the drill shaft to the table is not good. Hopefully the 1st picture will show the problem.
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The set square shows the mis-alignment to the drill bit and the blue arrow shows that the table is tilting compared to the casting.
This picture just shows the bottom of the table.
- BottomOfTable.jpg (183.12 KiB) Viewed 3120 times
Any ideas how I can correct this.
Thanks in advance.
Joe
Re: 10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:13 pm
by JPG
Rear trunion pivot upside down.
Re: 10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:20 pm
by jsburger
JPG wrote:Rear trunion pivot upside down.
Magna got another one.
We have all done that once. It is just un-intuitive the correct way for some reason.
Re: 10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:41 pm
by chapmanruss
Joe,
Don't feel bad for putting the rear trunnion on upside down. We recently had that discussion in another thread and I had to admit I had done it again with my 20th Model 10 restoration just days before. Just putting it back together on auto pilot I guess. It really seems like it should go on the way you did it but no.
Re: 10ER Table Alignment issue as drill press
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 10:44 pm
by Forda
Ahhhh, thanks so much! I could not figure out what was wrong. I thought initially, perhaps the main casting should be flipped, but the way I had it seemed to match the manuals. I would have never got that. Now I know what a trunion is!
Joe