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These are pictures of a shaper table in need of repair.
 
Posted by Peter Verbree <p.verbree@sympatico.ca>. 

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Merry Christmas from the Great White North!!
In my quest to re-habilitate my very abused Alba 10" shaper ( nearly
done) I am pondering what to do about the table, which has a large chunk
broken out where it attaches to the cross slide. (See picture in the
dropbox labeled Alba table.jpg The right side is actually the top)
As I see it I have 5 choices:
1) do nothing except drill and tap new gib adjustment screw.
2) Machine the top off and attach a repair part with, say 6, 5/16"
countersink cap screws
3) Machine off just the broken corner and attach repair like in #2
4) Make pattern and have new part cast
5) Buy replacement.

#1 Is the easiest and will probably do just fine for the kind of work I
do, it just looks bad
#2 Lots of work, alignment and strength concerns
#3 Less work, I'm leaning toward this
#4 lots and lots of work expensive but end result should be best.
#5 Very expensive, parts are made from something close to un-obtainium (
the difference in the dollar and shipping make for unreasonable cost,
they must come from the UK)

I would appreciate some input from the group as to what would be the
most appropriate fix to this. Please keep in mind that I only paid
$100.00 cdn and would like to keep the total bill less than $500.

When I'm done I will post some pictures of the results
Merry Christmas
Pete
In Sudbury ON