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Its finally starting to be garage sale season again where I live. Had to gloat a little on my most recent scores:

Porter Cable 890 fixed base router - $40 (guy was asking $50 for it, has a few other 690 fixed base units for $50 still). This one will go in the OPR since it has the push button spindle lock for easy bit changes.

7 Bessy clamps (some brand new) - $125. They are decent sized ones...4 feet or so maybe? Have to check.

10 3/4" Jorgensen Pony clamps with pipe - $40

Doing better than I am. Three weekend three zero's So far everyone is trying to either make up for being unemployeed or use the garage sale as second income. Boy priced out of site. An Old Craftsman router lathe was $60 with a cheap HF router on it. I don't think my router lathe cost me that much new. Also I haven't touched it in probably 10 years. So still waiting for the deals to start.

[ATTACH]14447[/ATTACH]Picked up this 1987 510 from one of the inlaws a few weeks back. He had bought it new, and since has built a big shop and has a lot of seperate tools.
took apart , cleaned and oiled. hardly any sawdust inside of housing. variable speed pulleys show zero wear. had to work a bit on the tubes to cleanup. Installed 12 gauge power cord and 20 amp switch. also installed new shopsmith casters....sold the other 510 that i had fixed up a couple of years ago last week. inlaw was nice and sold this one quite reasonable to me. So, if you are looking, be patient a good deal will come to you...........

Talk about finding a deal at a garage/workshop sale. A week ago, a fellow member of my local woodturning club, who was doing some Fall cleaning and wanting more room in his shop, was selling some tools so I stopped by his shop to have look. To my surprise, he offered me his Mark 510, circa: 2002.

He takes great care of his tools and was using the Mark V up to a week before he offered it to me. Everything is there (tables, accessories, etc. and then some). I then waited for the other shoe to drop with his asking price, and it sure did. He gave me everything for FREE! Not a bad deal for the 20 mile drive.

I plan on turning it into a "Shopsmith Shorty" to run all my SPT's, and compliment all my other Shopsmith tools.

Once in a while, when someone finds out I own Shopsmith tools, that someone knows someone else who is trying to sell theirs. Everytime this has happened to me, I find that they were kept in the backyard with weeds growing around (and through) them and becoming a pile of rust. No thanks I'd say. This time the answer was #@!$ YES!

Talk about finding a deal at a garage/workshop sale. A week ago, a fellow member of my local woodturning club, who was doing some Fall cleaning and wanting more room in his shop, was selling some tools so I stopped by his shop to have look. To my surprise, he offered me his Mark 510, circa: 2002.

He takes great care of his tools and was using the Mark V up to a week before he offered it to me. Everything is there (tables, accessories, etc. and then some). I then waited for the other shoe to drop with his asking price, and it sure did. He gave me everything for FREE! Not a bad deal for the 20 mile drive.

I plan on turning it into a "Shopsmith Shorty" to run all my SPT's, and compliment all my other Shopsmith tools.

Once in a while, when someone finds out I own Shopsmith tools, that someone knows someone else who is trying to sell theirs. Everytime this has happened to me, I find that they were kept in the backyard with weeds growing around (and through) them and becoming a pile of rust. No thanks I'd say. This time the answer was #@!$ YES!:D