In 1937 Delta introduced this high quality Delta 10 Inch band saw No. 768 that had some of the same quality features found on the larger Model No. 890 14″ version. This version, the Delta 10″ Band Saw No. 768 featured 10″ diameter wheels, a heavy cast iron table, sealed for life ball bearings, micrometer adjustments for the upper blade guide.
Specifications
- Overall Dimensions : 33 1/2″ high; 11 3/4″ wide; 23″ front to back.
- Capacity: 10″ blade to upper arm; 6″under guide.
- Table: Heavy cast iron, swinging on double trunnions. 11″ by 11 3/4″ surface.
(U. S. Pat. No. 2,040,718. Others pending.) - Accurate, true-running balanced disk wheels, carried on self-sealed New-Departure ball bearings. Lubricated at factory for their entire life. Heavy, accurately ground main shaft.
- Micrometer-adjustment upper guide. Each adjustment independent of others, and each made with precision.
- Micrometer lower guide, with adjustments brought out to front of table. Operator’s hands never come near blade. An exclusive feature.
- Upper wheel tilting device and tension scale similar to that used on 14″ band saw.
- Both wheels and blade thoroughly guarded; only portion of blade actually used for cutting is ever exposed.
- Welded stand available to make machine a self-contained unit.
- 1/3 -H.P. motor sufficient for all average work.
I’m a former woodshop teacher, cabinet and furniture maker, and avid tool collector. I’ve been collecting antique woodworking tools and restoring old Craftsman and Delta machines for almost forty years. I love the quality of the old Delta, Craftsman, Walker Turner, and other woodworking machinery from the 1940s through the ’70s. They just don’t make tools like that anymore and no one is going to be restoring woodworking tools purchased at big box stores fifty years from now. You can see my OldWoodworkingTools.com website about hand tools.
