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See, this is why I didn't write steps in my first post. Last night I spent 2 hours of my time, having to even sign up for another Dropbox account from another email address, I make a PDF with simple instructions and pictures, and it's ignored. Ask me again why I didn't provide detailed steps to begi...

Hi George, I don't think there is a Sawdust session specifically on tuning the Band Saw, if that's what you are looking for. The owners manual is available on the ShopSmith website for free, and that has alignment and maintenance procedures. Additionally, the online Power Tool Woodworking for Everyo...

So is it better to be woodworking or philosophizing, the age old question. I enjoyed the threads you referenced. And to answer your question above, it is better to be woodworking when I can, and to be philosophizing about woodworking when I can't. Like these forums, or tool browsing/shopping, or pl...

But would that be disingenuous? I think if I said it without qualification it may be. If I'm touting the benefits of the Shopsmith to all the naysayers and I cite my beautifully running 1982 model as evidence of its quality and longevity, without mentioning a few details, then it's less than forthr...

Besides, what does it matter? To one for whom it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. :) It's an age old question, couched in Shopsmith terms, and your outlook on it can have real world impact. But primarily it mattered to *me* for the sake of properly identifying what it is (discerning truth) and fo...

A somewhat philosophical question for you to consider (and provide feedback on). Don't laugh, I will agonize over this one for days (or weeks!) and maybe never be satisfied with my final answer. If you have a 1982 headstock, and yet you fill it with 2001 guts (motor, sheaves, belts, drive sleeve, qu...

Here is a link to a document with instructions on converting your typed list to a list of links that lead back to the individual documents, housed on Dropbox. Dropbox (or OneDrive, or Google Drive, or a host of others) are file storage and file sharing services in the cloud. You hear a lot about th...

And I meant easiest as in easiest for people to access without wading through a bunch of attachments on the thread. Not easiest to implement. There are much lazier ways to implement.

db5, I am well aware of user awareness (or lack thereof). I work in software and have worked in both a support capacity and now as a business analyst, translating user requests into requirements developers can use to code, and translating the features the developers coded into documentation the user...

Easiest would be to upload them to a free file storage service, like Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc. and then just get links for each one and convert each of your lines in the original post to a link. That way nothing is actually uploaded to the forum itself and the bandwidth usage stays off t...