An estate sale popped up last week with a pretty extensive workshop. They posted pictures and a youtube video of the shop contents. I spotted a Delta tenoning jig in the video. No mention of it in the other pictures. The guy running the sale was totally clueless about tools. Most things were not priced. I grabbed the jig and asked him for a price. He took a picture with his phone and said his AI app would give him the price. While he played with his phone I offered $50. Sold. It looks nice sitting on my 1950 Unisaw.
1920-60s DELTA / ROCKWELL picture thread - Post your Delta!
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Great score, thats the first I've heard someone running the sale to use AI to price their items. It will put a whole new age of "Ebay pricing" at yardsales if it catches on. Did you also pick up the 6x48 belt sander cover thats on the wall to the left? Those are also somewhat difficult to find in non-ground through condition or missing entirely.
Good eye @Corndoggeh
Observant.
Observant.
No. There was a belt/disc sander (just to the right of the table saw) The guy who bought it picked up the belt cover and the tilting table for it. They also had a 70s or 80s era Unisaw, but it was about double the price I was willing to pay.
Here is the other 1930s era Hamilton Beach vacuum that I'll clean up and mount on my disc sander as a "sawdust blower".
About 90 years worth of dust/gunk
When done it should look like this.
Here is the post of that sawdust blower.
Post in thread '1920-60s DELTA / ROCKWELL picture thread - Post your Delta!' https://www.garagejournal.com/forum...re-thread-post-your-delta.491552/post-9604612
I managed to locate a Delta brochure published in the early 1940s breaking down the use of this sawdust blower for both the belt sander and disc sander.
Armature is in terrific condition.
About 90 years worth of dust/gunk
When done it should look like this.
Here is the post of that sawdust blower.
Post in thread '1920-60s DELTA / ROCKWELL picture thread - Post your Delta!' https://www.garagejournal.com/forum...re-thread-post-your-delta.491552/post-9604612
I managed to locate a Delta brochure published in the early 1940s breaking down the use of this sawdust blower for both the belt sander and disc sander.
Armature is in terrific condition.
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Hoorn I have the "Tornado" model sitting on my shelf disassembled waiting for a rebuild. I think I just need a 6x48 belt sander to motivate me to actually finish it.
On another note, I picked up this 6" jointer - 10" tilt table saw a few weeks ago for some parts and it came with a nice bonus - the uncommon cast iron casters/foot pads.
On another note, I picked up this 6" jointer - 10" tilt table saw a few weeks ago for some parts and it came with a nice bonus - the uncommon cast iron casters/foot pads.
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@Corndoggeh I'm all about those cast iron casters! As for the sawdust blowers Delta offered in the 30s and 40s, I think the Tornado is even more difficult to track down than the Hamilton Beach.
As always Hoorn, nice job on the caster set. Looks like the new "tires" are going to work well. Really nice that you were able to find the dirty paper on the Hamilton. Thanks for posting. always appreciate your work.
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That’s pure art! Really nice job!
Thanks! Hoorn, your work is inspirational...
McMaster-Carr brass FTW....
I went a little bit overboard with getting an automotive paint color match and bringing the hi gloss down with 2K matte clear...
But thought the old girl deserved it...
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That brass hardware takes it to next level! Well done! 
I bought It from a guy who said it was his grandfathers and he bought it new. It has spoked wheels. It doesn't have a model number on it. I read that means it's from 39, not sure.
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This showed up on marketplace about 60 miles away, I really want it, but have no use for it. I haven't seen the saw on the CI base, the Corps of Engineers badging is cool too.
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Well, I’m not a restoration person, just get ‘em running correctly and use them. I’ve got a couple of Delta tools. Here’s one
It was in a friend’s commercial garage, collecting all kinds of grease, grime and dirt when he gave it to me, to get it out of his way! All I did was take it apart and clean it up. It works fine, and in its current form, I have added an X-Y positioning table and an acme screw jack mechanism to raise the table. I use it when laying out anything that requires a little bit of accuracy. After center drilling a series of holes, I move over to a larger floor drill press and drill the holes to final size. If I’m making something with a slot, I’ll drill a series of holes after laying out the shape I’m makingagain using the larger drill press, then using a metal cutting blade I’ll cut out between the holes and finish file to get the shape I’m after. Lot more work than using a milling machine, but hey I don’t have one. And in my 70s I don’t think getting one is in the cards.
Behind the radial drill you can just see another Delta machine, a Double Duty lathe my brothe’ father in law gave him. My brother had it for a few years and only used it as a horizontal surface, ie it had stuff piled on it. I got it in 2016, and never used it for wood turning. It has a four jaw metal lathe chuck, so I started using it for really backyard metal working. I jerry rigged it to cut tubing to length and boring for tapping, using the chuck from the larger drill press. And I even cobbled up a way to tap the tubing and face it square. That has ended, as I have finally acquired a metal lathe.
The Double Duty lathe came with a manual, which is somewhere in the house. In it are pic of the metal cutting attachments, so I guess it was capable of doing metal work. It was never used for that or being in the repair shop of a textile mill my sister in law’s family ran for generations in eastern Massachusetts. Her father kept it when they finally closed the textile mill in the 70s.
It was in a friend’s commercial garage, collecting all kinds of grease, grime and dirt when he gave it to me, to get it out of his way! All I did was take it apart and clean it up. It works fine, and in its current form, I have added an X-Y positioning table and an acme screw jack mechanism to raise the table. I use it when laying out anything that requires a little bit of accuracy. After center drilling a series of holes, I move over to a larger floor drill press and drill the holes to final size. If I’m making something with a slot, I’ll drill a series of holes after laying out the shape I’m makingagain using the larger drill press, then using a metal cutting blade I’ll cut out between the holes and finish file to get the shape I’m after. Lot more work than using a milling machine, but hey I don’t have one. And in my 70s I don’t think getting one is in the cards.
Behind the radial drill you can just see another Delta machine, a Double Duty lathe my brothe’ father in law gave him. My brother had it for a few years and only used it as a horizontal surface, ie it had stuff piled on it. I got it in 2016, and never used it for wood turning. It has a four jaw metal lathe chuck, so I started using it for really backyard metal working. I jerry rigged it to cut tubing to length and boring for tapping, using the chuck from the larger drill press. And I even cobbled up a way to tap the tubing and face it square. That has ended, as I have finally acquired a metal lathe.
The Double Duty lathe came with a manual, which is somewhere in the house. In it are pic of the metal cutting attachments, so I guess it was capable of doing metal work. It was never used for that or being in the repair shop of a textile mill my sister in law’s family ran for generations in eastern Massachusetts. Her father kept it when they finally closed the textile mill in the 70s.
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I like your setup. I can handle a wood lathe, but was wondering if they still offer night school classes in metal lathe work? When I grow up. I want a set up like yours. But all vintage tools. I bought and restored old tools thirty years ago. And gave them away to people who would use them. No internet back then to talk about.
@shoot summ those badges are awesome! Tilty's look so cool, especially with the uncommon CI base. I've only seen @pmcgowan and @5Prosjeff post CI base mounted tilty's, and Jeff's has the crazy rare CI pulley guard.
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Someone saved me from myself, it was marked sold yesterday.
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Was it normal that these tilt table saws had guards that were chopped off at the factory or is that "aftermarket" where someone buys a guard for a jointer/bandsaw and chops it off themselves? Ive seen that across a few tilt top saws on FB/CL and always assumed it was a aftermarket mod.
I recently showed a badge of Delta off-shoot "TAUCO", which was simply the Delta founders last name Tautz combined with Company.
In 1945 Delta bought Crescent machine and for a very short time produced a few badges which combined the Delta name with crescent. These are very uncommon.
Here it is on large 20" band saw for sale in my area. Colonel Rockwell was not fond of company strikes, and when the Crescent employees had a prolonged, difficult strike Rockwell sold the factory, the brand and the manufacturing rights.
In 1945 Delta bought Crescent machine and for a very short time produced a few badges which combined the Delta name with crescent. These are very uncommon.
Here it is on large 20" band saw for sale in my area. Colonel Rockwell was not fond of company strikes, and when the Crescent employees had a prolonged, difficult strike Rockwell sold the factory, the brand and the manufacturing rights.
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Does a plain ol 1930’s Delta shaped count? Just picked this up so I can work on my car’s wood. Can with a bunch of extra parts. I am going to use it just for sanding so far. Not sure about the stand-think it’s Craftsman?
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@1930artdeco that is absolutely a 1950s Craftsman pedestal. Possibly for a table saw.
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Made my first chips on the Rockwell 21-100 today.
Drilled out the broken 1mm hold-down screw on the left-handed lathe roughing tool. I drilled straight down the center of the bolt, then unscrewed the remnants.
The phases are dinked up, because there are three black wires coming out of the motor with no labels, and evidently I got it exactly wrong, because forward is reverse and vice versa (going into a VFD). Looking at a phase diagram, I think I can swap any two wires and it'll go the right direction.
I probably don't need to keep the belt on the highest gear, either.
Having a mill is awesome.
I've got all the end mills, all the collets, a 3-jaw drill chuck, a set of t-nut hold downs, a mill vise (a little worse for wear, came with the mill), and a set of parallels. Thinking I want an indexing boring head, a fly cutter, and a dividing head for now.
Drilled out the broken 1mm hold-down screw on the left-handed lathe roughing tool. I drilled straight down the center of the bolt, then unscrewed the remnants.
The phases are dinked up, because there are three black wires coming out of the motor with no labels, and evidently I got it exactly wrong, because forward is reverse and vice versa (going into a VFD). Looking at a phase diagram, I think I can swap any two wires and it'll go the right direction.
I probably don't need to keep the belt on the highest gear, either.
Having a mill is awesome.
I've got all the end mills, all the collets, a 3-jaw drill chuck, a set of t-nut hold downs, a mill vise (a little worse for wear, came with the mill), and a set of parallels. Thinking I want an indexing boring head, a fly cutter, and a dividing head for now.
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Reversing connection on any pair of those black wires will fix your directionality issue.
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It's funny, almost all of my stationary tools are Delta tools. I've owned these two table saws the longest, aside from my Delta 900 radial arm saw. (I also have a Super 990 and four other Delta table saws).
Someday, I'd like to make a single base for those to sit on, but it's low on the priority list. Someone chopped up the base on the right hand one and I shimmed it up to match the one on the left; then strapped them both to a sheet of plywood to make them movable. I actually took that contraption to a jobsite once. The 4" jointer and its motor are mounted on a separate piece of plywood for mobility. The 6" jointer on the right has wheels.
Last week, I found these two saw stands at Habitat and couldn't resist buying them for $8 each.
The left one has rubber foot pads and it's the first I've found with that feature. The casters on the other one work well, now that the posts have been cleaned/lubed, but it was a b!tch to move around as found because they'd skid before rotating directionally. One of the carport table saws is on a homemade wooden stand, so I'll move it to one of these someday. In the meantime, I've stacked one on top of the other and they're a rolling storage stand.
I spent the past few days making some complicated knee braces to support the overhang on a roof with weird angles. (Thank goodness for architects' drawings). I put longer (table saw) fence rails on the bandsaw (the holes line up) and made a little sled for the 4x10s and adjusted the Delta tilt-top table-saw to be the outfeed-table.
That tilt-top saw requires an adjustable outfeed table, which is a pain; but it makes a great outfeed table because it's adjustable!
The original 1/3 hp motor was plenty strong, but I did break a blade mid cut.
That was disappointing, but I always enjoy getting use my little blade welding fixture.
I was relieved to see that the break was not at the previous weld).
Here are the finished knee braces, thanks to my old Delta tools.
Tom
EDIT, I mistyped above, the bandsaw has a half horse motor, not one third.
Someday, I'd like to make a single base for those to sit on, but it's low on the priority list. Someone chopped up the base on the right hand one and I shimmed it up to match the one on the left; then strapped them both to a sheet of plywood to make them movable. I actually took that contraption to a jobsite once.
The 4" jointer and its motor are mounted on a separate piece of plywood for mobility. The 6" jointer on the right has wheels.Last week, I found these two saw stands at Habitat and couldn't resist buying them for $8 each.
The left one has rubber foot pads and it's the first I've found with that feature. The casters on the other one work well, now that the posts have been cleaned/lubed, but it was a b!tch to move around as found because they'd skid before rotating directionally. One of the carport table saws is on a homemade wooden stand, so I'll move it to one of these someday. In the meantime, I've stacked one on top of the other and they're a rolling storage stand.
I spent the past few days making some complicated knee braces to support the overhang on a roof with weird angles. (Thank goodness for architects' drawings). I put longer (table saw) fence rails on the bandsaw (the holes line up) and made a little sled for the 4x10s and adjusted the Delta tilt-top table-saw to be the outfeed-table.
That tilt-top saw requires an adjustable outfeed table, which is a pain; but it makes a great outfeed table because it's adjustable!
The original 1/3 hp motor was plenty strong, but I did break a blade mid cut.
That was disappointing, but I always enjoy getting use my little blade welding fixture.
I was relieved to see that the break was not at the previous weld).
Here are the finished knee braces, thanks to my old Delta tools.
Tom
EDIT, I mistyped above, the bandsaw has a half horse motor, not one third.
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When I won the auction for my 21-100, it didn't come with the lever for the spindle lock and brake, or the lever for the handle, so I ordered up some 3/8" round stock, threaded the appropriate ends, and my son made me some walnut handles for them.
I think the project came out nice.
I think the project came out nice.
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This was posted by a member on a woodworking forum, for sale in Canada. The table is the interesting part I've never seen one before.
@shoot summ very interesting find. I looked through a few 1960s era catalogs and couldn't find that table. Could be a custom conversion?
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I wondered the same.