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I have a suggestion for Shopsmith and hope the rest of you will chip in. For many years I've used a 10ER and then lately I acquired a Mark VII. Fortunately most of the gear rack is usable. I hope if a new Mark VII is built and a steel (not plastic) gear rack will be part of it. If one wants to raise...

This must start as a gloat. I picked up a Mark VII this weekend for the vast sum of $40. It had sat for sixteen years after the owner past away. His widow was moving to a condo and had to sell it off. I did run it for a second and I turned the speed control just a little way. Turning it back down I ...

Hard steel punches would shatter when struck by the hard steel of a hammer face. So unless you would only use a mallet you definitely would not want a hard punch. I didn't believe in hard steel shattering until I was helping my boss drive out a bearing race. He was using an aluminum punch on this ve...

The parts are for the 10E or 10ER. The Yahoo group for 10ER has files that will identify most of them.
Ed

You may not be very successful in drilling out a roll pin. Roll pins are made from spring steel and are VERY hard. They often are harder than drill bits and so the drill goes dull long before you make any progress. Frozen roll pins are a big problem even for machinists. Do a lot soaking (PB Blaster)...

I built a unit with Create-A-Bed mechanism several years ago. It seemed straight forward and not much trouble. We had a long term guest and it was used daily for a long time and it worked like a charm
Ed Friedl

Watching the web site's repeat of early episodes I was struck by what was the original appeal to the series. Norm used equipment that I might have. He didn't have a mortising machine. He had a Shopsmith bandsaw and so on. I think it was in the last season Norm was re-sawing some material. The bandsa...

I used to work in a place where we used a 7-1/2 HP Dewalt radial saw to cut aluminum extrusions. It originally had a brake system that was engaged by a solenoid to stop the blade. The aluminum saw dust shorted it out in no time flat. For a long time we didn't have a brake and it took a LONG time to ...

Wasn't that an SPT bandsaw that he used in this video also?
Ed Friedl

It always amazes me how buried treasures can be found in unusual places. Our church had a grand piano in the choir rehearsal room. It wasn't the best sounding and it looked like a refugee from the scrap heap. Some naughty person managed to spill soda into the interior. And it really gummed up the wo...