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There are a few more videos out there in the hinterlands of the interweb with those two hosts (the one you linked is 3 of 3 for the cabinet project - you can get to the first 2 parts from that page by clicking "Show more" under the date published). I'm not sure if they had a short lived TV...

Looks like a Shopsmith speed increaser.

http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/catalog/speedincreaser.htm

Looks like a pretty good deal with all of the SPTs.

Years ago, when I lived in a colder area, I used it for a couple of years.

I never had any problems with removing it. Could be it's made differently nowadays.

Looks like that might be the bottom of one post immediately below the dust port. As SDSSmith said, it's hard to tell.

Raised and mentored by marxists/communists/socialists (whatever you want to call them), hung around with marxists/communists/socialists in college, joined at least one marxist/communist/socialist political group in Chicago, went to church for 20+ years led by a marxist/communist/socialist, surrounde...

I've noticed that the recent (within last couple of years) "new" products (i.e., casters, speed chart, drum sanding guides, lathe live center system, etc.) are periodically part of the e-mail specials, but the price is rarely if ever discounted from what the price was when they initially i...

That's a new one to me as well. Interesting.

I can definitely verify the theory!

This comes in second only to the tighten headstock prior raising to vertical and always secure the 'vertical lock' screw.:rolleyes: This reminds me of a TA I attended several years ago. The instructor was going to demonstrate some procedure that would require drill press mode and he asked one of us...

I'm guessing it is part of the Miter-Pro (Part No. 555404). It appears to be missing the other metal "fence" that would be installed 90 degrees to the fence you have. The bar under the part with "Shopsmith" on it would run in the miter track allowing for 45-degree cuts.