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[Chillylulu]

I just got a shopsmith (Vintage) about a month ago.  I unloaded it and haven't looked at it yet. I don't have any idea what it is missing. They offered to sell for $150, I gave $200  (It was a charity.)

Has anyone seen any good sites showing the Shopsmith evolution?  I've looked hither and yon, but I haven't found anything.  Vintage machinery didn't even have much paper to speak of.

Chilly

[rusty]

1950 barely qualifies as 'vintage', so not surprising...

The Shopsmith's were heavily advertised in Popular Science and Popular Mechanics. Searching google books for these turns up quite a lot of versions...


https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=%22shopsmith%22#q=%22shopsmith%22&tbm=bks

Alternate link because google is being weird:
https://www.google.com/search?q=shopsmith&tbm=bks&tbo=1

[Chillylulu]

Thanks for the Popular Science / Popular Mechanics tip - those ads should get me what I am after.

I think i understand what you are saying regarding the use of the word "vintage." Most people have a Shopsmith wouldn't be posting on the Vintage Machinery site - but when searching around, the VM site had some of the most useful info, just not much of what I need.

Actually, vintage can be 2013.  Your use of the term was most accurate, as vintage is correctly used with a date.

Ex:
Abc wineries  white wine, vintage 2008.
Other common accepted use is over 40 yrs = vintage, over 100 yrs = antique.
More and more commonly it simply means anything that is not the current style.

Vintage machinery has almost always been my best source for power machine paper.  They had some of the only paper on my 1936 Yates-American scroll saw.


Chilly

[turnnut]

Chillylulu,  try www.shopsmith.com

[Branson]

Has anyone seen any good sites showing the Shopsmith evolution?  I've looked hither and yon, but I haven't found anything.  Vintage machinery didn't even have much paper to speak of.
Chilly

Everything you want to know can be found on the ER forum at:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Shopsmith10ERusers/info

There are examples of members' machines,  a whole documents section that even includes the early blueprints for building your own stand for the ShopSmith that came with
each order, and pictures, discussions, original manuals and so forth for just about everything.  Whatever you need to know, it will be there.   I have almost all the documents that
came with my ShopSmith back in 1949.  If I can be of help, let me know.  I really love the old ShopSmiths.

[Chillylulu]

Thanks guys.

I'll post it up soon. 

I'm working in a bunch of pictures of tools to share, just slow.

Chilly

[bird]

Thanks guys.

I'll post it up soon. 

I'm working in a bunch of pictures of tools to share, just slow.

Chilly

You're not slow unless it takes you literally YEARS to do that! So, no worries!!!
bird

[turnnut]

Chillylulu,  that shopsmith.com site that I mentioned, has a Mark V serial numer list
with dates.

also, Shopsmith Mark V tool history;  how to tell the age of your machine by colors.

also has parts list to order replacement parts.

good luck with yours.

[Branson]

Chillylulu,  that shopsmith.com site that I mentioned, has a Mark V serial numer list
with dates.
also, Shopsmith Mark V tool history;  how to tell the age of your machine by colors.
also has parts list to order replacement parts.
good luck with yours.

That's the site for the current ShopSmith company.  Their product is a different creature from the Magna ShopSmith.  If Chillylulu has an E or an ER
ShopSmith, it won't be much use to him, though *some* parts are interchangeable (just not many).  They are not a source for replacement part for the early Magna ShopSmiths.  The E and  ER dates will not be there, either.

Chillylulu, which model ShopSmith do you have?  Does it have two way bars or four? 

[JessEm]

I would feel right at home in the OP's shop. It reminds me a lot of mine, only larger. It also appears we have the same type of "peg shelving" for our wood storage. I used 5/16" steel rods, 12" long. Drilled 5/16" holes in the studs at the same angle with the use of a jig, and tapped the rods into place. It's the only way to go for storing wood if you ask me. You can check your inventory and access something in a 8' high stack of wood in seconds, when it would otherwise be buried.