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Still cleaning up the Shopsmith

So a couple of fairly brief cleaning sessions have got me to the point this evening of beginning to tear down the motor, the final large piece remaining. The way tubes (I know the real names for them now, thanks Dave) are clean, the headstock and carriage are clean and mounted on the ways. Tony [...]

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Lathe Restoration

My latest project is to restore Ky’s grandfather’s shopsmith tool: It’s a really cool old-school piece of machinery with a 1/2hp motor, reconfigurable into a lathe, a table saw, a drill press, and probably any number of other cunning layouts. We picked it up last weekend from the storage shed, and brought it back home. [...]

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