MAGNA 10ER Owner’s Guide v1.01 restored by Everett L. Davis – 2016 - Donated without cost to the worldwide Shopsmith Community
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APPENDIX 1 - WHERE TO GET PARTS TODAY
In one year from the time I am writing this, the MAGNA Shopsmith 10E introduced in 1947 will be 70 years old. The 10ER came next.
While the Magna Engineering Corporation and the subsequent owners and manufacturers of this machine no longer exist, many of the
machines themselves survive to this day and are in daily use by those of us who value what this remarkable machine is capable of as we
strive to preserve, restore and use them.
Skip Campbell who lives in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area, and who is both the founder of the 10ER Shopsmith Users Group at Yahoo
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Shopsmith10ERusers/info and the owner of MKC TOOLS http://mkctools.com/index.html is
arguably the Dean of the Shopsmith 10E and 10ER You can reach him by Email skip@mkctools.com or Call 817-319-2297
He has extensive knowledge and has a number of parts that he manufactures, or sources used and restores, plus a host of new creative and
adaptive modifications he builds for them.
One can certainly get on eBay and find a good bit of parts that are available, but as a word to the wise, the machine you have may have
been upgraded through the years and you need to know specifics of what piece you have and what you need to service or replace it. You
need to join the Yahoo group where you will find many who freely offer help, and have parts that you can obtain to help you keep yours in
top shape. Great folks there…
Do you have a 10E, an upgraded 10E, or a 10ER? Those are questions you can get the answers you need in the forum.
APPENDIX 2 - NOTES and COMMENTS
The Shopsmith multi-purpose woodworking machine was the invention of Hans Goldschmidt and with the help of a number of colleagues
formed Magna Engineering Corporation in Menlo Park, California. The patent application for the machine was filed 18 Aug 1947 in Albany,
California.
The 10E (the original model produced) came from the concepts
of the drawing at the left, though select items such as the 4 step
pulley set shown was not widely produced in production, if at all.
It came with a 3 step pulley system, and few other small
changes.
The 10E was produced for use with a table extension with a top
plate made of wood. The rip fence, as shown would fit the work
table, and could be secured to the wooden table extension via
two bolts and wing nuts as shown on the right.
The 10ER is a revised version of the 10E discussed in this revised
Owner’s Guide, and Magna continued making dozens of
production changes to the machine, and developing accessories
during the seven (7) years of original manufacture.
The early adoption of the machine was enhanced dramatically
when Montgomery Ward ordered 250 machines for their West Coast stores for Christmas of 1947. Response was so great that the
department store chain made it a stocked item, nationwide, launching the Shopsmith all across America. This was the driving force that
propelled the Shopsmith into a household brand for the DIY wood workers, home craftsmen, professional, and other woodworkers of all
sorts, and the 10ER flourished.
I included 1953 Montgomery Wards Power Tool Catalog - Shopsmith Accessories Pages 46-49 to give you an idea of the breadth of that
accessory innovation and 1950’s availability present in today’s products from the present RLF Shopsmith Inc. There you will find the drop-
down jointer shown mounted with special bracket and headrest, even the lower saw blade and belt guards listed.
For a starting point on the history of the companies (factually, several unrelated companies made this machine in its lineage through the
years), please read: Buying a Used Shopsmith – Revisited which I wrote in 2015 which is an in-depth review of the machines after the 10E /
10ER, how to tell them apart, and a bit on servicing them using links, photos and comments from the Shopsmith Forums, submitted and
written by actual users and owners. See: https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewtopic.php?p=185690#p185690
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