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BuckeyeDennis wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 11:05 am What was your cleaning process?

Thanks, Dennis! To clean and brighten the paint, I used:

• A light brush to remove the heavy grime

• Blue Magic Metal Polish applied heavily with a toothbrush-sized stiff-bristled brush. This would dissolve more of the grime and clean any rusty base metal that had corroded from paint loss, and then polish it up with hand buffing.

• Johnson Paste Wax as a last coat to seal the paint and any exposed metal

The paint from this vintage of machine was applied very heavily, probably to try to cover over the imperfections of the fairly crude castings of that period.

jsburger wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 12:09 pmBeautiful!!!

Much appreciated!

rjent wrote: ↑Sat Jul 23, 2022 4:20 pm Outstanding! Enjoy, one of the greatest ShopSmiths!

I will, for sure! Looking forward to getting the Power Mount Adapter Kit restored and added back to the machine. I’ll be running some of my vintage greenie SPTs on it at that point!

Does anyone have a video of the A34 jigsaw running?

Shoprite,

I don't have a video of it running but do you have a question about it that I may be able to answer? I currently have 3 of the 9 I have restored over the years. 1 of the early Version and 2 of the later Version.

Tks Russ, Brand new to Shopsmith and bought three, one 10 ER and, one 500 and one 520. The 10 ER is in good shape with some rust which I am working on and it included a A34 jigsaw. Question, on the jigsaw is the upper blade mechanism supposed to help bring up the blade? In other words should that spring bring the upper head up to the top if not secured to a lower position. Sorry I don't have my manual handy so I am paraphasing the part names.

Shoprite wrote: ↑Tue Oct 11, 2022 4:36 pm Tks Russ, Brand new to Shopsmith and bought three, one 10 ER and, one 500 and one 520. The 10 ER is in good shape with some rust which I am working on and it included a A34 jigsaw. Question, on the jogsaw is the upper blade mechanism supposed to help bring up the blade? In other words should that spring bring the upper head up to the top if not secured to a lower position. Sorry I don't have my manual handy so I am paraphasing the part names.

That IS the way a jigsaw normally works.

However the word "head" troubles me. Only the blade holder is subject to the spring's force. The upper arm(head???) does NOT move at all.

By upper head I meant the upper chuck. so only the upper chuck moves, not the spring cylinder?

Now I am confused!

Well good bye. This has not been useful or friendly. I will figure this out myself.