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I do use the tailstock with live center to help steady the large piece. I will have to try without it. I did align with just spindle drive and tailstock without the speed reducer but not turn it. I can look at that. THanks.

I have been using my speed reducer but when something is not exactly round, which is why I use it, it wabbles even after it rounds out. Is this normal or is therre an adjustment to control this. It makes it hard to round a blank.

Whatever you do, don't throw it in the garden for mulch. Made that mistake the first time. It turns into mush the first time it gets wet. You will end up shoveling it back out.

I live on the East coast and was affected by the power in our town. Miami power plants apparently had a fire and went offline. I work at a hospital and we immediately went to generator back up. A lot of the traffic lights were out for a while but eventually came back up with in a few hours.

I have the speed reducer and it help with the big pieces or out of round ones. Even if they are wet (green) they may throw the balance off even thought they look round. The reducer really slows it down so you can that big stuff without chasing your SS out the door. The duplicator I don't know much a...

This came up a couple of months ago. You can probably search it with the right wording and get a lot more info. It is a spacer to allow the carriage to stop against the headstock and allow your saw blade to align with the slot like Dusty said. Of course if you want to turn something fairly flat, the...

I just recently got mine and have left it on. It is not in the way of everything I have done so far but I have not done the tablesaw mode yet. Can the 3-way be mounted so the one of the arms is pointed straight down, leaving a wide v-shape pointing up? Then it may not get in the way of the tablesaw?

I ordered the 3-way handle for the drill press option awhile back, it showed up yesterday. Got an email a few days ago and then there it was, almost forgot about it.

Many years ago I started with new SS and usd it quite a bit. When the divorce came, I ended up selling all my stuff to pay the mortgage. The shuttle blew up that year and the housing in my area was not selling well. Many people in my area were emplyed through the shuttle program. I stayed out of woo...

I have one of those for my Ryobi chopsaw. It is for mounting on to a portable sawhorse like thing.

The Ryobi model has two tubes that go across that is supported by fold up legs. It universal fit type. Got it at HD, works like a champ.