Thanks Ralph, well like Bill Noble says back to the drawing board.
Thanks Lyndell

"Ralph" wrote in message
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Lyndell Thompson wrote:
Mac, Bill noble needs a second opinion on the shopsmith shaft diameter.
My SS reads .6171" (about 1/128" shy of 5/8") with my el cheapo vernier
caliper. Ditto for the inside diameter of all my arbors and I have some
newer ones like a 1-1/4" sawblade adator from a mark V. Anyway, if you
have a way of measuring your SS (if you still have it) Bill and I would
appreciate the info. Same applies for anyone else here. Bill thinks maybe
mine is smaller, but all the arbors fit good and snug. The problem
is.......he has access to a manufactured adaptor that says it fits SS and
it is 5/8" true bored (he dosen't have a SS to test it on though). I
think that mfg. may have made it a little sloppy but I don't know for
sure. Any help from anyone will be most appreciated. Man I can't help it
if someone got into the non-filtered, left-handed cigarettes when they
manufactured this thing in 1949 (I checked the serial # for a fact). But
by trying newer arbors at least they are consistent. I am joking about
the above comment on the cigarettes. Not joking about the year of mfg. I
really like my shopsmith and that is a good thing. It is all I have to
work with.:-)
TIA Lyndell
Been using a shopsmith for quite a while, 20 years. The shaft at the
time I bought it was (is) 5/8" dia.