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FIGURED OUT MY TROUBLE. mY SHOPSMITH IS A PEICE OF JUNK. THE QUILL SHAFT HAS A BIG WOBBLE IN IT THAT CAUSES THE SPUR CENTER TO WOBBLE OFF THE BOARD.

I have a Mark V 500 the sheeves and every thing inside was bad so i configured it like a 10er in order to use it.i used a 1horse motor it works fine i have cut a few boards with it and it is right on the money.That is why ihave to use pullys to make it work. i know it is a jerry rig but i did not ha...

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after reading all the posts at several different forums imayby my problem is the speed. To make a long story short, i have one speed to change speed i have to change pullys so with a 2 inch pully at the motor and a 4 inch pully at the shaft i get about 862 rpm that does good on the ring master and o...

Who knows? i thought so but maybe not. i have done all of the above. a teacher at the school i work at has a shop smith and he does not have any trouble with his on the same type of wood. we both get it from the junk pile at the school. he is going to let me use his spur center and see if maybe i ne...

I have a problem with the 4 spur center staying on in the wood.it keeps spinning on the wood. this happens on all the wood i try. i hade a school wood shop teacher look at my center and he said it was ok, i made sure it was on real good. could i have that much wobble in the shaft of the markv that i...

OK guys heres an other way toook at it .I had a chev pickup 4 speed had 650x16 inch tires it had a low torge rear end. it spun out on snow and ice on the parking lot. haf tread trouble and could not aford new tires. change to old tires on a fored that was not being used. the tires were 700x16 tires....

My exsperiance is that if you use just the filer you will be cleanning that filer all thew time. use a paper bag with the filter and when it gets full open the bag ,empty it ,seal it back with duck tape and reuse. some times i get four times use before you notice decreace in preformance. we use that...

You guys should start a thread on what all the cleaning sticks can be used for.1. sanding disks,2.erase pencil marks on wall where kids mark the wall on the school walls,3.erase pencil marks on wood. There you go from there. curious as tro what all people use it for. Just like used dryer sheets. gre...

Yea the wife got it right. i told my brother inlaw he diode not get the connection pj is food,ham is food and biscuts are food so like the riddle goes oh heck i forgot it but its like if you spell a word and sound it out then the last one is really funny. i hate it when you have an old timers brain ...