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Thanks, Nick. That seems to me a good value at that price.

Thank you sir. Perhaps you'll want to alert the website folks that on the parts listing for the Pro Planer, http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/partscat/proplanertableasmpartslist.htm , as well as the one for the MV Mount Planer, http://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/partscat/mvplanertableasmpartslist.h...

Having a backup on hand sounds like a plan, Nick, but could you refer me to the part online? I'm either looking in the wrong place or it actually isn't available as a part. Neither the Pro Planer or the Mark V mount list the cutterhead available as an assembly or as individual parts.

When I purchased my DC a few years ago it arrived with a "buzz" that when the unit was switched off slowed down to sound like a rattle and then eventually a bumping of the fan on the housing. Disassembly by myself confirmed that diagnosis. One call to SS and a replacement fan was on it's w...

Well said, Bill. I believe Stephen Covey would characterize this as a paradigm shift. Point being it all depends on the lense you're looking through at the time.

Unless I'm misreading or misunderstanding something Wixey will ship it for free. That brings the price from them very close to this one with the shipping.

It seems that very few "whole" machines are sold on eBay and those that are usually only bring a couple hundred bucks and are for local pickup only. I've seen a few on Craigslist lately ranging from $250 - $450. Unfortunately I think you'd get more for it parting it out. Speed changers are...

Usually that holds true. But I will confess to having recently purchased a few HF moving blankets, on sale for $4.99. But in my defense I bought them to protect some Shopsmith stuff I was transporting.

Thanks Dennis, for your excellent post. I've thought about attempting to summarize this myself just for my own edification for sometime, just haven't gotten around to it. But I didn't realize the difference in the "large body" arbors until reading your post and viewing your photos. Thanks ...

Yup, on the Yahoo list. Gentleman by the name of John Burger is one who had installed a Wixey on his Pro Planer. It's message #54937.

You can view photos of his installation here:

http://www.ssusers.org/files/JSBurger/Digital_Planer_Scale/