Hello wonderful community!

The Shopsmith Forum is now open, thank you to all who helped make this happen.

Cheers!

I guess that explains why I couldn't access the Shopsmith thread I was looking for!

John

Yep there is a Shopsmith forum section now!!

One of mine was bought new in '75. The shorty was bought in 2015. Never bothered to research it's birthdate. The older one was outfitted with a Jointech SawTrain and router table. The Saw Train came with a super accurate fence which doubles as the router fence. The shorty runs the band saw and 6X48 belt sander. It's also handy for dados and, the like and, I built a couple or 3 special purpose sleds for it. 

Sadly, they're both in storage, now. It took me a half a day to break down the Saw train. I'm not looking forward to putting it all back together. 

Thanks again to all that made this SS forum possible ! Some of the members know me from the SS forum and know that I am a total addict when it comes to SS’s. I grew up with a “greenie” and have had at least one in my shop for many years. Now days my shop is a little bigger and I have 5 SS’s that stay set up in semi-permanent configurations. Two have the dvr motors and all are 510’s, one converted to a custom incra fence application. I use them daily in the shop. Can’t imagine woodworking without one. 
Paul

3 hours ago, Masonsailor said:

Thanks again to all that made this SS forum possible ! Some of the members know me from the SS forum and know that I am a total addict when it comes to SS’s. I grew up with a “greenie” and have had at least one in my shop for many years. Like Artie I bought my first new one back in the seventies. Now days my shop is a little bigger and I have 5 SS’s that stay set up in semi-permanent configurations. Two have the dvr motors and all are 510’s, one converted to a custom incra fence application. I use them daily in the shop. Can’t imagine woodworking without one. 
Paul

Pictures.....maybe????

My first one was given to me by a friend who had developed MS.  He was no longer able to use it and not all of it was there.  EBay and I became friends until I finally got all the parts that I needed which is fewer than what is available. Other users have turned out wonderful products with the smaller tables and I will deal with it.  For the second one, after I retired, I no longer used my pickup and some young couple gave me $500 for it and I purchased the second machine.  They are rather easy to do most maintenance on.  But when I first saw one in the mall in about 1980, I wanted one.  Both my machines are from 1985.  One gets used more than the other but when I reduce some of my wood inventory, I will pull out number 2 as a partially setup of some configuration.  I don't know yet.  

 

Thanks, John, for doing this.  I will help with what I have learned and experienced.  

6 hours ago, FlGatorwood said:

I will help with what I have learned and experienced.  

Looking forward to it!

Trying to reapply sandpaper to drill press drum sander attachment.  Anyone know a video.  It has a silver rod that comes out and you wrap the paper on.  

Can you post a picture of the drum ?

Paul