Is this Shopsmith salvageable?

[Tembro2005]

I inherited a Shopsmith from my grandfather and it was badly damaged while being shipped cross country to me. I'm trying to figure out if it can be fixed and function again? Sold off for parts? Or do I need to write it off as a loss? Photo attached. Not great quality pic, but maybe gives you an idea of what I'm dealing with.

 

[PugetDude]

Shorten it up and use the power head and quill to make a dedicated drill press out of it.
That's where the Shopsmith really shines.

 

[Robbie B]

If try to put it together before I said it was parts but that looks kinda iffy. What did the delivery company do drop it from a plane without a parachute? That’s pretty impressive to break something that bad in transit.


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[Farmall450]

First, go after the shipping co like no other.

Then, I'd go the drillpress route, too.

 

[rsanter]

Buy the one I have and fix yours plus have some spare parts.

And show a better picture of exactly what’s broken

Mine had the jointer with it so if you don’t have that you will gain that.

You can have the whole works for $200

 

[matt_i]

I would buy another and make 1 good one out of them. You can probably still keep most of the original.

 

[oflannabhra]

Need more pics, but if the head unit works it is salvageable. Might require picking up a second unit off craigslist, but there is no shortage of Shopsmith parts.

 

[mrzip]

Just wondering if you had salvaged it or sold it off.