"Bugs" wrote in message
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Combination machines are like Swiss army knives; they do a lot of
things, but none of them well.
My Dad started out with a Shopsmith. As he got tired of making the
adjustments to convert from one operation to another, a real shop grew
up around it. It now sits as a pretty much dedicated disc sander.
Bugs


Think bigger like Knapp or Laguna. I think they probably do every thing
well. :~) IIRC 80% of the time each portion of the machine works with out
disturbing other machine adjustments.