The speed changer (a bolt on reeves drive) expands the lathe uses to include a great bowl lathe as well. Its an excellent drill press and spindle lathe. Its quite easy to get collets which allow the use on machine tools for the verical mill. The planks on the stand from my first restore came from trees that were alive when President Lincoln was Senator Lincoln. The stand was an option as well as the motor. I will make another a vertical mill (bridgeport style) They can easily be converted to DVM motors. I converted one to a wall mounted drill press. I can tell you from 6,000 miles away in Afghanistan, that those are bad. This is just a preliminary run through of how I got it, I have 3 restorations going on right now, the planer being a huge one so progress will be slow. In this picture added are the table for DP, saw, horizontal mortiser, sander, drill chuck, drum sander, moulding head and loads of cutters. I spy a few lathe faceplates, one welded badly, a lathe drive center, lathe tool rest arm with broken rest, tailstock, mortising attachments and hold downs, miter gauge and table extensions and a few pieces to hold the bars spread evenly and mount it to the table. It runs so many accessories for different applications that it needs to change speeds easily and without losing torque. The coolest piece in my opinion is the 'speed changer' It mounts between the motor and headstock and acts as a variable diameter pulley like a Vari slow on a drill press. It came with a whole box full of accessories and a manual. The handle for the DP was replaced with a wooden one at some point, shouldn't be hard to fabricate though. Both of the machines came with good motors but were all beat up. It was not made by Shopsmith but by the Magna Engineering corp. I recently picked up this shopsmith 10e (e for expirimental) along with a 15 inch planer for 50 bucks! I'm fixing this up completely to put in my dad's garage

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