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Menards Shopsmith Clone
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I have one. Menards is a Home Depot type place with generally lower
prices. There's a chain of them in the upper midwest including Wausa WI where my parents live, but they have an even better home supply store there called Fleet Farm - generally outstanding prices, best I have seen anywhere. You find the Fleet Farm stores in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Wish we had them here in Colorado. I keep a shopping list for whenever I visit up there. But I digress. As you said, the Menards tool is a shopsmith clone made in Taiwan. Shopsmith parts are interchangeable in my experience. I haven't noticed them in the Menards stores for a while, don't know if they are available anymore. I haven't had the cover off mine for a long time but I think the belt is a standard v-belt and you can get one anywhere. As a multi-purpose tool, the Menards clone isn't as high quality as a geniune Shopsmith, as you might expect, but it was only 1/3 the price when I bought mine. The saw table is small enough to be awkward for a lot of things, I replaced the poor rip fence with one from Shopsmith, it makes a good variable speed drill press and horizontal boring machine, I love the big sanding disk and 6x48 belt sander attachment I got for mine. As a wood lathe, it is AWFUL. Don't even bother trying it, you'll just be frustrated. Even the small Jet and Delta lathes are light years ahead of it. If I can be of any help, send me an email: -mike paulson, fort collins, co In article , John Hartmus II wrote: Has anyone heard of a Shopsmith clone bearing the name "Menards P. H. D."? My Dad jus bought one at an auction and it needs a top belt. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks, John Hartmus II |
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