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Well, things are just coming up roses for me lately! I got a call from the guy I bought the SS from... and he found the upper part of the jigsaw. I just ran up to his shop and picked it up! Probably a few small hardware pieces still to be acquired, but all the major parts are in place now. IMG_0688....

JPG wrote:Do you have the rest of the lathe duplicator?

Sadly, no. That's the only thing out of the haul I couldn't identify.

I also got the lower assembly from a Magna-branded jigsaw, but somewhere along the line the owner had lost the tube arm with all its appurtenances, so it's useless at this point.

Any question is fair game! :) Did you free up both movable sheave pulleys? If I understand your question correctly to mean both the motor sheave and the idler shaft sheave, then yep, I did. I almost had to grow a third arm to have enough hands to get that dang retaining ring back on while compressi...

I worked in a cabinet/furniture shop from 1978 to 1983, and among all the nice commercial cast-iron machinery there was a forlorn little Shopsmith Model 500. No one paid much attention to it, but I learned to use it and put it to work. I remember being impressed with what it could do, and thought ma...