I remembered yesterday that I have a shaper! I also remembered, after putting a motor on it, that I have no idea how to run a shaper! I really need to spend some time to figure out how to set the stroke. I followed Shawn's directions for setting the stroke on his Douglas shaper and either I have not understood or mine is different. Or I cocked something up when I put the ram back on...

After finally getting a stroke that worked, I placed my milling vise on the table and with the help of a 1-2-3 block as a jack, I was all set to go. I got down to about 1mm from my target and the tool screw loosened and hit the yoke, moving it in the vise. No damage done but I ran out of time to set it back up and finish. Hopefully, I'll get some time next week to finish it off.

I was looking at the locking handles for the gibbs and in particular, those for the knee. The Kondia has a cam operated lock on the front of the knee as well as two screw type on the side of the knee (directly over the gibb). I was going to make new ones but I noticed that the old broken one has a hell of a lot of thread on it, which sticks out a long way. The reason is to clear the column, otherwise the handle fowls. The two table locks are also much longer than needed. I don't know about the saddle lock, as that had been replaced with a bolt. I'm leaning more to buying adjustable style handles and wondered if there may be any reason not to use these? Keeping it 'original' is not a concern, given the 'custom' parts made already...