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Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2012 3:50 pm**

I just bought a Shopsmith Mark 5-B ss197064, does this tell me what year it was made? Also what does the B stand for?
Thanks in advance, wlg64

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:13 pm**

You can find the answer to your serial number question here -- http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/serialnumber.htm

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:17 pm**

wlg64 wrote:I just bought a Shopsmith Mark 5-B ss197064, does this tell me what year it was made? Also what does the B stand for?
Thanks in advance, wlg64

I would say Jan/Feb 1985 was the birth date. You can see that here.

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2012 4:50 pm**

Thanks, that is about what I thought. I don't understand Mark 5-B.
Thanks for any help, I am full of questions.
wlg64

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:35 pm**

wlg64 wrote:Thanks, that is about what I thought. I don't understand Mark 5-B.
Thanks for any help, I am full of questions.
wlg64

When you find out the significance of the [-B] let us know.

i.e. Idunno!

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2012 7:49 pm**

Does the "B" refer to the headstock casting type?

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:09 pm**

trainguytom wrote:Does the "B" refer to the headstock casting type?

If so, when did they start that? The 'B' casting has been around since the 1950's, and the 'C' was a 1990's thing. We be looking at a 1984 vintage(we think).

Posted: **Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:58 pm**

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Posted: **Sat Feb 11, 2012 11:17 am**

Just a guess, but is that "B" really an "R" and something Shopsmith adds as part of a headstock rebuild?

Posted: **Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:21 pm**

I called SS and they told me it was made Jan. 1985 Model 500. It was advertised as Mark V-B, guess the seller I got it from did not know ether what the B mint.
Thanks to all!

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