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Not sure if this is the one you are looking for:

My method was similar to above but printed full size on a large peel and stick mailing label, covered with clear MacTac and cut out along border and installed.....looked ok.

Here is a link to an owners manual:
http://www.advmachinery.com/manuals/Zvise.pdf

A kind and quick member has emailed me a copy......Thank you very much!
This forum is terrific.

I have a Shopsmith air system (the later type) and lost the copy of the manual for it. I found a reference to a post in 2008 that seemed to include a pdf but I could not find it, SO, if anyone has a copy, could you email to me at

pmerriam at sign eastlink.ca

Forrest, I enjoyed your Advent Calendar article, nicely done! Gene, you should keep on trying..........writing is a good hobby. Since you have four times as many posts on here as I do, I'm sure the following is like telling Grandma how to suck eggs: Before my first article was sent in, I looked back...

Thanks! This is the seventh article of mine that they published. The sixth (about a year ago) was on the cover and the lead off article at the time. This little one is on the last page, so the "thrill" is a bit less, but I still get a kick out of it, as do friends and family. (I think :eek...

Back in March 2011 I posted about some homemade arbors for the 5/8" Shopsmith spindle here: http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showthread.htm?t=7412&highlight=arbors+Shopsmith I wrote up a short version of that post and it has just been published on pg.47 of the Dec.2014/Jan.2015 issue of Mach...

Here is a post I had awhile back on this subject:

http://www.shopsmith.net/forums/showthr ... ver+repair

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Repair worked and that band saw was sold and I kept a newer one.

Great photos Ed, and high quality looking table. No Rockler anywhere near here but they will ship to Canada. I get into their store in South Portland, Maine, a couple times a year.....always come away lusting after some goodie or other!:eek: