Well!
I did it and I got the shaper for $500, I paid full market price for it but I am very happy with it.
I did a quick once over cleaned up the most important parts, oiled and lathered her up then pulled the switch on and she started rocking, I have not ran a shaper for 25 years or so I just stood there for about 10 minutes while it swooshed away and studied what does what and such, with a piece of fresh 3/8 HSS stock I strolled over to the grinder and formed a roughing tool and threw it in the tool holder, slapped some scrap aluminum in the chuck set for a .010 cut then I let it loose.
The click feed (indexing ratchet) kept sticking so a slight tap with a mallet cured that problem, the clapper box was acting up by not quiet seating back ready for the cut stroke so a dose WD40 was ordered and surely enough it capitulated, now we were in business and she worked her magic like she was designed to do, with a little more tweaking mainly in the advance feed area it squared up my block and gave me a glass finish. I will get more pictures of its results this week and post them for all to see
Get off the truck! you are heavy!!!

Mr red to the rescue

Here is my little machinery mover crane I built for putting machines into the shop

It’s been wheeled into the shop and the lifting arm has been attached ready to be lifted onto its temporary table ( I need to build a purpose designed unit as this one in no robust enough)





This is where it lives for now, this will be an early spring project to make the table. All the best Anthony.

