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Sorry for the brief answer. Penn States Industry is a woodturning mail order catalog. They sell an adapter that fits the 5/8th shaft of the shipsmith. This allows you to attach most of the hogher end chucks. It sells for about $15.00

Penn State sells the adapter for the Shopsmith.

:D I have been a shopsmith owner since 1980. On several occassion I have wanted to modify a feature of the product. I needed to purchase a part to attach to an existing item. Customer service told me what part to purchase and also sent me the manual for the part I was modifying. Specific example. I ...

ShopSmith was sending weekly emails with tips which included the tip you are discussing in this thead. They are available on the shopsmith site under ownersite/archives/woodtip archives/illustrated tips. All the tips have been there for many years. Stop complaining about the site. Spend the time to ...

Which kit did you use? Shopsmith is not listed on their website.

Thanks for the response. I was thinking of the one with all the drawers but having the casters and removing the legs like on jcbrowns. I had already thought about having to build a method of lowering so it rested on the floor when in was use. I also have the lift assist and would have to allow for i...

I have been thinking of removing the legs of the Mark V and building a base cabinet with casters on the bottom. Storage is always a problem in a small shops and the legs seem to be a wasted space. Has anyone done this?

Thanks everyone. I had considered the band saw and router options. Bu:) t the tenoning jig would work if the cut were not as deep. I will check the price of a better set of dado blades

I recently completed a project which required lap joints to be created which were 3" wide. I was using 2x4 stock. I used a dado set to accomplish the cut. The question is the surface of the cut is rough and I was wondering if there is a method to cut lap joints as efficiently as with the dado s...

Incra also has an 18" fence they sell for the original Incra jig which can also be made to fit the miter guage. By the way it also comes with a stop and extender, all for $34.95 purchased directly from Incra.