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My 510's upper sheaves were stuck together at low speed, so I broke it down, lubed everything and reassembled. Everything was working fine. Two weeks later, when I advance the speed, it gets hard to turn at about G speed, then I get a BANG, and it goes fine up to FAST. I re-lubed without taking it a...

Need somewhere to put a glass of bourbon:

Thanks for the help. I removed the sheave and idler and cleaned them up (probably for the first time 20 years). Then I took off the bearing loop, gently cleaned the inside of the idler with some 600 grit, put a dab of red Permatex on the outside of the bearing and whacked it home using a 1/2" r...

The button bearing on the sheave has popped off....probably because I havent been lubing the sheave. Anyway - I need instructions on getting the sheave off to to replace it. The speed control is in slow, and with no button bearing I can't set it to high to get the belt off. Thanks,

fightingseabee wrote:I had a similar problem and I ordered this and the problem went away

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/item ... =Find+Item

Thanks Seabee. Fixed it perfectly.

My dust collector is leaking fine dust out of the exhaust on the back of the unit. When I took the hood off, it was caked. I put it in the washer recently and wonder if I didn't ruin it. For now, I knocked the hood clean and taped a thin T-shirt over the exhaust and it works, but I'm thinking it's n...