re: shop smith 510

I have a large shop at home in Canada, fully stocked with all the stand alone tools. At my winter place in Az. I have a garage and a ShopSmith 510 with several SPTs (special purpose tools, ie: bandsaw, planer, etc.)
I can do anything in my winter shop that I can in my summer one.
I do not find the SS table saw to be a problem, perhaps because I’m tall and of course the 510 has a much larger potential table size than the 500 or even most stand alone TSs.
If you keep everything waxed and moving easily, you can change from one setup to another in less than a minute in most cases. Over a day in the shop I may do this as many as ten times……. I’ve definitely got ten minutes for that.
My 510 stores under a bench / cabinet and all my SPTs are on a mobile cart making changes very quick and easy.
The SS is a great quality piece of equipment, far superior to any of the cheap box store stuff and can be found used at very reasonable prices.
I’m starting to rave. Suffice to say that as a career woodworker, I always scoffed at them but now having actually tried one I’m totally impressed.

I have re-posted an old blog on my Az. shop featuring my 510. The shop has changed a little but the tools haven’t. I play out there almost every day. :-)