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I managed to get a couple pics. with my iphone. The machine belonged to a man that worked for Underwriters Laboratories as a testing manager. It is a beautifully kept up machine (the pics. don't do it justice) and came fully loaded. Is it possible that the "c" represents a custom machine?
Mark

mark-b wrote:I managed to get a couple pics. with my iphone. The machine belonged to a man that worked for Underwriters Laboratories as a testing manager. It is a beautifully kept up machine (the pics. don't do it justice) and came fully loaded. Is it possible that the "c" represents a custom machine?
Mark

Well, the picture is blurry, but it sure looks like a "C"! I'll bet that there wood be a lot of interested owners of model 10's to see your SS in person.

Here is another picture of the "C" I used the flash to high-light the letter, it washed out the red, but you can see the serial better.
Mark

of two things here. One, that is a "C" and two, I have no ideas what it means. My prediction is that this will be a thread that creates a lot of interest, and as mentioned earlier you will have lots of people wanting to see this.

Wouldn't it be cool if the C stood for "CRIS" !!

What is CRIS? Remember I am a newbie :-}

Mark - R. J. Decristoforo was the author of POWER TOOL WOODWORKING FOR EVERYONE. In the first edition he used a 10ER. Note the name on his handsome shop coat below...


"Cris" at work on the Shopsmith

Here's an interesting tidbit on the 10ER history:

"The machines made at the San Francisco plant had an "R" in front of the serial number and those at the Cleveland plant had an "E" (for east). The plants evidently kept track so that no numbers were duplicated. If they had kept that pattern up it would have helped a bunch but after serial numbers get to 60000 range they quit putting the prefix on them so you can't tell what plant they were made in. It looks like, annually, production averaged around 20,000."
(quoted from this website: http://www.woodworkinghistory.com/document_11.htm)

Maybe somebody messed up and put a "C" for Cleveland?

mark-b wrote:Here is another picture of the "C" I used the flash to high-light the letter, it washed out the red, but you can see the serial better.
Mark

I hope you don't mind, but I had to post about this on the 10ER Yahoo group. To my knowledge, there is no other known serial number beginning with a C.

I don't mind at all. I am curious myself. I clicked on the link on easterngray's post and found it interesting that the family I bought it from lived within 3 miles of the Shopsmith inventor (I am only 1 1/2 miles away) so it is entirely possible that this machine is not a regular edition.
Mark

Perhaps you could post me a link to the Yahoo 10er group?