Does anyone here speak Shopsmith? Last Friday morning, my wife and I went to the Recycle Town area of the dump in Sebastapol. I had just picked up a Delta benchtop saw for ten bucks (needs a new switch), when a truck came in and unloaded a Shopsmith. Now, I need a lathe, so I walked over with the yard man and asked how much they wanted. $40. It came with everything but the sanding plate it seems, plus a few extras (like 4 shaper cutters still in their boxes). It also came with a box that held 6 nearly unused lathe tools and a file ground into a lathe skew. And a folding draw knife, two 1 1/2 inch socket gouges, a pair of old Stanley chisels. And the original manual -- 1949.
It's still in Santa Rosa since it wouldn't fit in my wife's Taurus. We're going to Santa Rosa this weekend and I'll get some pictures. I may have to disassemble it, at least in part, to get it into my van, and I have to get rid of a lot of surface rust. Hope the motor works... I promise to get pictures this weekend.
It's a 10 er Shopsmith. Looks like it just got put in the barn about 40 years ago.