Help w/Vintage Delta Band Saw Restoration

try this link. I think this is your saw. Maybe even a contact to them with a pic will get you on the right track.
Good luck.

http://www.old-woodworking-tools.net/delta-band-saw.html

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Try www.owwm.com
That should give you some direction.
Do a good, job you hear.,,,

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Where exactly do you live and when’s the next time you’re going to be out of town? I can take that off your hands so you can enjoy your winter…

That’s a beautiful saw – I had one exactly like it but it was a 10” (model 768). We had just had our 2nd child and I didn’t have the time to restore it so I sold it. That was 5 years ago and I still have the bruises from kicking myself.

I believe this is yours right here http://owwm.com/photoindex/detail.aspx?id=5690

The 1933 catalog doesn’t even list a 14” bandsaw but the 10” looks just like yours. It finally pops up in the 1935 catalog http://owwm.com/pubs/1141/2092.pdf page 30.

p.s. I have a very similar X-ray but mines higher up on the index finger and just barely broke the skin on the second finger. 3 surgeries, a week in the hospital, a bone infection, 2 kinds of staph infections and a PIC line in my left arm for 6 weeks.

-- Steve, Webster Groves, MO

Yes Steve, I think you nailed it again… (Sorry, I just had to say it).

My Delta appears to be a Model 892 from 1935. Saw and stand were $51.15, motor was $18.95, and the lamp was $1.50. Almost $75 in 1935—good to know that someone in the family once had money. Thanks for the info, and your offer to rob my home.

To show you what a stand-up guy I am, I won’t rob your house and I’ll give you the full 75.00 retail price without even deducting anything for depreciation or the green paint job.

-- Steve, Webster Groves, MO

Try this:
http://wiki.owwm.com/(X(1)S(3lvwcb55bddaggvow1bm45jt))/Default.aspx?Page=DeltaSerialNumbers&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

They didn’t always put model #’s on them. Mine is a 1946 or 47, no model tag, only a serial #. Somewhere I have a phone # for Delta customer service. They will tell you when it was made, by the serial #. Parts should not be a problem.

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http://www.old-woodworking-tools.net/delta-band-saw.htm

Ick, no never that site.

http://www.owwm.org (forum)
http://www.owwm.com (knowledge base/repository)

Oh, Deltas from the 30’s have a more green cast to the paint. Not metallic but much much more green mixed into the gray. Not the standard machinery gray the are now.

It doesn’t look to be in to bad shape. Unless the rust is real deep you should be able to use a wire wheel on an angle grinder or drill to clean it off and repaint it.

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It depends on how far you want to go with the restoration. I recently did a Delta 14” and completely stripped it. I used electrolysis to remove the rust and it also removed the paint. If you use that method be careful to not put the pot metal trunnions in the solution, they will dissolve. As has been mentioned in earlier posts www.owwm.com is a great source of info and sometimes parts.

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