It was made just before Delta changed the cabinet and cheapened much of the rest of the saw in the process. In retrospect I can't see why I hesitated in purchasing it, I knew it would be a good saw and a new one is over six times what I paid."įor what it is, this saw has performed very well and I have grown very fond of it. I've done some significant work with it and can say I'm most satisfied with my purchase. I finished up by waxing everything external, greasing the necessary internal parts and realigning the top, fence etc. It ran like a hairy goat when I first powered it up but replacing the belts has it passing the nickel and dime tests. The motor bracket had never been painted so I took it back to bare metal and painted it black. In a couple of bad spots I scraped with a razor blade first. There was some light rusting on the top which I took off with a maroon Scotch Brite pad in a half sheet sander. I cleaned it up including a number of unfinished or parkerised pieces that had begun to rust. The motor cover was nowhere to be found and it doesn't have its original mitre gauge, but otherwise is complete. It looks like the old "make a bracket with the lugs off the original motor" technique has been used. The original motor has been replaced with an Australian made 2HP Crompton Parkinson.
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The saw was originally purchased in Alice Springs, a town in the middle of Australia not far from Ayers Rock (but a long way from anything else). Maybe its just because I've been dragging home some monsters lately but this saw sure seemed easy to move. We settled at $550 (US$305) and I threw it on the trailer. Then it dawned on me, this machine was about ready to cut wood. Hmm, not a bad machine and as sheet metal cabinets go, its quite solid. Oh well, I decide to give it a quick tyre kicking anyway. (Turns out that the cabinet has always been sheet metal). Second thing, its not even a cast iron cabinet. First thing I notice is that its not a four footer. I decide to bite the bullet and make the 2 1/2 hour round trip.
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After several nerve racking hours of getting no answer, an elderly lady answers and tells me she knows nothing about it.
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Wow, that's cheap, it must be an old one, maybe even a coveted four footer. Saw an add in the paper: "Saw, Delta Uni, $600 (US$330)".