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The purpose of filling the center is not to gain weight, but rather to gain rigidity. Any non compressible substance will do. Cement grout comes to mind as well. That’s a great idea, I have 2 five foot length’s of 3” pvc pipe. I wonder how a can of expanding foam would work on a 20” section? I know...

So I gather I want to fill the drum with weight? I can load it up the PVC pipe with MDF circles, but I think I'd need a shaft to go all the way through? I just was hoping not to spend anything. Can I glue a dowel through the middle of all them instead of a threaded/metal shaft since they're there ju...

I have some 3" schedule 40 PVC that came with my garage when I bought my house. Wall thickness is .24". I'm using laminated plywood end caps that I turned on the lathe for a press fit. I was planning on making the drums 24" wide but I've been wondering if that's an acceptable length w...

Thanks for the answers everyone, it's working great now. I backed off both nuts maybe 1/8 of a turn, waxed the fence, and then waxed the Shopsmith. I realized I've never waxed the trunnions, so I did that as well. Since I have a dark-ish garage I took a paint pen and highlighted the trunnions and th...

Thanks Dusty, I printed that off to take into the shop. I hate getting my original binder docs dirty and I can just print off the page(s) I want to take into my workshop. Awesome.

It’s just a Crafter mandolin (like an Ovation) that the bridge/saddle destroyed itself when I loaned it to a friend. (They did me a “favor” and restrung it with loop mandolin strings instead of ball-end guitar strings.) I recreated the bridge with my SS bandsaw and at the time my ‘54 Greenie. It was...

Ok, thanks! I will try that this evening.

I have a MKV 500 with the 520 upgrade package. The levers on the pro fence tighten too much and I don't see anything in my upgrade documents about adjusting the tension on the levers upper and lower. I see the nylon locking nut in the rear but does it adjust locking tension on both levers?