Delta Milwaukee Band Saw Serial Number
Good afternoon all, This morning I went to go purchase a 12” tilt head Craftsman bandsaw for $25 from CL. I know it is not the greatest bandsaw but as I am a beginner and I really need a bandsaw and the price was right I figured I would go for it. When I got there someone else had come earlier and stole it away. I was not happy but then I saw an old Delta Milwaukee band saw on an old wooden table. I checked it out. It ran so I offered $25 and they took it.
I bought this saw yesterday off of Craigslist. I paid $100 for it. It belonged to the seller's father and she knew nothing about it. From the serial number.
Now, I am new at all this and did not have a tape measure with me so I thought it was a 9” or something like that. When I got it home I measured everything and found out that it is a 14” bandsaw! The motor is the original Rockwell 1/3 hp motor. I went onto the vintage machinery wiki and looked up the serial number – 94 4788 and it turns out that it is a 1951 model. In my haste to get out I left the belt I have a couple of questions.
Is this going to cost me a fortune to refurbish? What is the best things I can do to make this saw run awesome? How do I figure out what belt size I need? Where can I get a manual for this saw? How do I figure out how big a blade to put on? Lastly, I just want to make sure that this was a good deal. I know the saw runs but have never seen what this type of band saw goes for.
Any help will be greatly appreciated - -Howard, Amesbury MA. I think you should post some pictures to help us out. But, that being said, as long as this thing hasn’t been run over by a truck or something, you got a great deal. The 14” deltas from yesterday changed a little bit through the years but not dramatically. I have a 14” Delta from ‘84. It shouldn’t cost too much to get cleaned up. Get all surface rust taken care of.
I’d check the bearings, it probably could use new tires, a new blade, check the guides and replace/upgrade if necessary. I run a link belt from HF on my Delta and it works great. They’re around $25 if I recall correctly. Use the HF coupon.
Check the alignment of the table to the blade and make any needed adjustments. Once you’ve done all that, I think any remaining problems will either be readily apparent, or you’ll have a good starting point to start troubleshooting it. EDIT: Check out this link.
= The saws didn’t change a whole bunch between the years, so you can probably find a manual for a 14” of a different year that will come in handy. Where are you located? There may be a LJ locally who has an old or spare blade you could test fit. If you were anywhere near me, I’d throw one of my blades on there. I use the Timberwolf blades from Woodcraft and like them very much. I’d recommend not getting your blades at HD or Lowes.The mightiest oak in the forest is just a little nut that held its ground.
What have you got against 1951 eh?I was born then and I still work albeit not like I did previously.LOL I would say all joking aside you have stolen a 14 inch bandsaw (for that kind of money, you couldn’t buy a used motor for that normally) if it is apart from the belt otherwise complete and working. If you start off with a really vigorous cleaning campaign followed by lots of oiling and before that of course sanding and painting if required and thought desirable. You should find it will run fine although to be honest these things are almost impossible to make more detailed comment upon without a nice collection of photos otherwise it should be as I have tried to advise you from my experience,it sounds like you did really well old pal.keep buying like that and you’ll be fine.So long as it works ok of course.LOL Alistair - excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease. Yes, some pictures would help, as already mentioned. For $25, I’d say that qualifies for a STEAL! Last year I purchased my 14” Delta Milwaukee with riser block built in 1946 for $150 and got a really awesome deal at that price, I felt. Mine was in great, running condition, but I did do some upgrades that really made this saw sing.
Your saw, while a handful of years newer, is the same saw.
Photo © Martin King Photography Early Beginnings In 1919, Herb Tautz started Delta Manufacturing Company in his garage. In 1923 he started manufacturing a small scrollsaw based on a design licensed from its inventor, Carl Moberg. The saws were sold through a subsidiary, and wore the 'Delta Specialty Co.' In the late 1920s and into the early '30s, Delta rebadged a 12' bandsaw made. Beginning in 1929, Tautz started identifying Delta Specialty Co.
As 'a subsidiary of Delta Manufacturing Co.' In early 1932 the 'Delta Specialty Co.' Name was dropped. A Period of Ownership Changes and Acquisitions In 1939, Tautz sold the company to a partnership consisting of Marshall Field, Charles G. Cushing, and H.
Campbell Stuckeman; Tautz went on to run, which rebadged and sold Delta products overseas. The Delta name was difficult to trademark in other jursidictions so the Tauco name was used instead. We are uncertain of the ownership of Tauco and it is possible that it existed before the 1939 Marshall Field buyout. Tauco label from a scroll saw that was exported to South Africa In 1942, Marshall Field and partners sold it to Timken Detroit Axle Co., part of an early conglomerate controlled by Willard Rockwell.
In 1945, Delta was sold to, which had until very recently been known as the Pittsburgh Equitable Meter and Manufacturing Co., and which had just purchased In late 1945 or early '46, Rockwell bought; although both Arcade and Rockwell/Delta had a 'Homecraft' line of machinery, none of Arcade's Homecraft designs were ever sold by Rockwell/Delta; they did, however, use Arcade's foundry and machining facilities. Label from a Delta Homecraft machine.
In 1948, Rockwell/Delta bought, makers of a line of turret-arm radial arm saws that competed well against radial arm saws. It appears that the saws and their motors were manufactured for Rockwell by, which had already been making motors for Rockwell, and possibly for Delta before the purchase by Rockwell. In 1953 Rockwell/Delta purchased the, a Canadian company that made the Beaver Power Tools line that dominated the Canadian hobbyist market. In 1960 they bought Porter-Cable Machine Co., maker of handheld power tools. In 1963 they bought Buckeye Tool Co., maker of pneumatic tools. In the early 1970s, Delta manufactured the machines for department store chain J. The Rockwell International Years In 1973, Rockwell Manufacturing Co.
Merged with North American Rockwell Corp., and the resulting operation was Rockwell International Corp. The former Callander Foundry continued to operated as The Rockwell International era was marked by an emphasis on corporate financial performance and quality suffered on some products. In 1981, the line of handheld power tools was sold to Pentair Corp., which operated it as the Porter-Cable line—a name that had disappeared shortly after Rockwell had bought the Porter-Cable Machine Co.
In 1984, Rockwell International sold the 'machine tool' (woodworking and metalworking machinery) division to Pentair. Pentair operated it as the Delta International Machinery Corp., which included the Canadian operations. The Pentair Years and Black & Decker In the early '90s, Delta bough the subsidiary of; their main product was an edge sander that remains the basis for Delta's edge sander. Also beginning in the early 1990s, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, manufactured all of Delta's American-made drill presses, an arrangement that continued for about fifteen years. In 1995, Delta bought rip-fence maker In the late 1990s, Pentair merged Delta's and Porter-Cable's manufacturing operations in Jackson, Tennessee.
In 2000, the two divisions were formally merged. On July 19, 2004, Black & Decker Corp. Announced that it would purchase Pentair's power tools group, including the Porter-Cable, Delta, DeVilbiss Air Power, Oldham Saw, and FLEX brands. B&D already owned the DeWalt brand. In January 2011, Stanley Black & Decker sold the Delta brand to a Taiwanese power tool manufacturer, Chang Type Industrial Co., Ltd., that was already manufacturing benchtop tools for them. The new company is Delta Power Equipment Corp. The CEO has said that the Delta products currently manufactured in the United States will continue to be made there.
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Delta Resources. The above history was cribbed from by Keith Bohn. Keith's history article also provides information on specific product: when they were introduced, and how they changed over the years., an article that demystifies the complex web of Delta serial number systems. Paint colors, how to rebuild a scrollsaw air pump, a type study of Delta cast-iron stands, information specific to bandsaw, lathes, Unisaws, and more.
Keith Bohn's 1939 Unisaw, S/N A-100—the earliest Unisaw known Parts and Manuals Delta provides owners manuals and parts lists for a variety of machines, including many of those from the Rockwell and Homecraft lines. Check the first; some manuals are available there for free download. To request a manual and/or parts list, call the Delta Hot Line at (800) 223-7278. Be sure to have either a model number or serial number handy. If you are calling from Canada and need information regarding Rockwell/Beaver machines, you can call Delta in Canada toll-free at (800)463-3582.
There is a small fee for manuals sent by mail. Be sure to check out the 'Publication Reprints' tab, above, where you will find a list of over 500 manuals and catalogs covering the entire history of Delta, from the 1920s to the present. Well, there isn't much information past the mid-1980s but Delta can provide information on those more recent machines. Resources from other web sites.
—The home page for the modern Delta Machinery Company. —History of the company from the Delta Machinery web site. Some of these facts are in dispute.
—Delta Accessories and Parts. —Delta Parts and information on rebuilding a Unisaw. —A nice article on just just what the title says. —Has lots of parts list on-line for Delta, Rockwell and Beaver machines. Delta-branded Products from Other Makers Delta mostly made their own products, but especially in the early years they sometimes OEM'd machines from other makers. For example, Delta's No.
385 12' bandsaw was manufactured by / for Delta back in the late 1920s to early 1930s. And the Model 23-600 6' old-style bench grinder was made by Doerr Electric Corp. Information Sources. Thanks to Keith Bohn and many other members of the Old Woodworking Machines forum for contributing almost all of the information here.
A search of provided a few snippets from 1925 to 1930 mentioning Delta Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee, Wis. The earliest mention we have seen of Delta Manufacturing Company in an ad is: 'Delta Specialty Company / Division of Delta Manufacturing Co. Electronic principles malvino 8th pdf. / 1661-67 Holton St.
Milwaukee, Wis.' . The 'Delta Specialty Co.' Name appeared in the April 1932 issue of Popular Mechanics: 'Delta Specialty Company (Division of Delta Mfg. The following month, the ad read, simply, 'Delta Manufacturing Co.' .
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Information on the Marshall Field partnership comes from patent records; click on the 'Patents' tab and then search the page for Marshall Field. Information on the January 2011 sale of the Delta brand came from the. Further information on the January 2011 sale came from an. The buyer is Chang Type Industrial Co., Ltd., of Taiwan, a company also known as TOTY.
'The new company has been renamed Delta Power Equipment Corp.' PLEASE NOTE: VintageMachinery.org was founded as a public service to amateur and professional woodworkers who enjoy using and/or restoring vintage machinery.
Delta Milwaukee Band Saw Serial Number
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