Help: Bandsaw and Drill Press Machine Project

[Searcher7]

I have some metal and woodworking projects I'd like to get to, but first I have to get to two project machines(Drill Press & Bandsaw) that I picked up a couple months ago.

'm getting ready to clean them up, but I'd appreciate any recommendations on where I can get parts.

The Drill Press has a single phase 3/4" horse power motor that I'll have to take apart, but I'd like to find a simular motor for the bandsaw.

Going by the pics, can anyone tell me if there are any specific parts I should be scouting for?

Any recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris Staten Island, New York.

[Charley]

probably has the manuals, etc. for those machines. They may even be able to help with a source for parts, but those tools look good enough to use the way that they are with just a bit of cleaning. Many small items like pulleys, set screws, , belts, nuts and bolts can best be had from a hardware store or Grainger. Bearings can be obtained, using the numbers that are on the sides of the old bearings, from a local industrial bearing supplier. Used 1/2, 3/4 and 1 horse general purpose electric motors can be obtained very reasonably from heating and air conditioning contractors.

Charley

[Charlie Self]

Good luck finding parts. AMT went out of business some time in the late '80s, if memory serves, and they were noted for producing cheap, hard-to-adjust (almost impossible in the case of a lathe I once had) machines. I seem to recall they were early Taiwanese machines, posisbly early enough to be Formosan.

Don't take the motor apart. Buy a new one and shitcan the old one, if you're goiong to go forward with your projects. It's old enough to retire anyway. But I doubt very much you're going to have a particularly worthwhile tool when you finish. I think I'd start haunting ebay and Craigslist for replacement tools.

The bandsaw looks to me like a no-hoper. No parts, no table, no hope. Blade length is easy, and probably standard: run a piece of string around both wheels, pull it taut, mark and then measure the string. It's usually easier than trying to loop a tape measure around both wheels.