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Does anyone have a ShopSmith ?

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Ulma Doctor:
I have owned 2 of them and i was wondering who else uses them.
i currently own one and i'm starting a discussion on what you have used your Shopsmith For?

i don't have all the attachments for mine,
but i have the 10" saw
the 12" sanding disc (works beautifully as a sander!!)
the dado set, router bit set, & the horizontal boring set
the lathe chisels and fixtures, centers, etc


i'd love to have the Band Saw attachment , but those seem out of reach by themselves

here is the picture of the first thing i made when i got my present ShopSmith, some 5 years ago.
it's made from reclaimed pallet oak.

let's see your machine and/or your projects

woodchucker:
I almost bought one, a friend had one when I was young. But then I got to thinking of how I would hate to setup and teardown each time, so I opted for a full set of equipment. 
Glad I did. I think their lathe is the most valuable piece. Maybe as a drill press too. But past that for someone like me who works off designs in my head it would not work well.  I can see putting the jointer on off, tablesaw on off, jointer on off, tablesaw on off... yea not the way I work.

Uncle Buck:
I do not own one, but once read that when used as a drill press they are a brute due to massive spindle bearings. I have no clue if that is true, just something I read about them years ago.

Ulma Doctor:

--- Quote from: Uncle Buck on August 24, 2018, 03:59:53 PM ---I do not own one, but once read that when used as a drill press they are a brute due to massive spindle bearings. I have no clue if that is true, just something I read about them years ago.

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I don't know if i'd call the bearings Massive, they are nice bearings but they do have a strange anomaly.
they have an imperial bore of 5/8" but a metric OD of 32mm
they are very nice drill presses, but i think i wanna do the 2 bearing conversion for even better drilling  8)

chips and more:
I have the jigsaw attachment somewhere?? If you want it, come get it.

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