Trying to date delta bandsaw

If you're dating, it's a good thing to know her birthday. Flowers and candy, minimum.

I, on the other hand, preferred to just use mine for my own purposes. Maybe a new blade at Christmas or May day even if the other is still good.

The people on the help line at the "new" Dw/elta aren't going to be tool aficionados. Go with the pictures, everybody else will.

She is wrong. Rockwell badging was gone by the mid eighties. A 1999 saw would have had a serial number that starts with the year ( 99) then a letter to denote the month, (A=Jan, B=Feb, etc.) then additional numbers that could lead you to the week, day, hour off the assembly line and the names of the crew members if you had access to the computer.

That's funny,I thought of that as soon as I wrote it like that, I was going to say "trying to date delta band saw",(Well not go out with the saw)...............LOL

They were real nice at Delta,no charge for the manual and all, Maybe that DG-9965 = 99 th. year, 6th. month, 5th. day is how they do it today,but like I said it looks too old fashioned to be from 1999. Sorry, no digital camera yet. That's why I sent the OWWM link, It looks a LOT like that, The stand too. Thanks Tony

Thanks,

Actually my **stand** looks like the one here,

that apply to that piece of equipment.

Mike

Was told it was from 1965 Thanks, Tony

That's certainly in the ballpark. Have an old Rockwell catalog from that era could look in, but you're certainly close enough.

The Rockwell era was from '48 thru '81 for future reference. Might have been a year or so later that the last of the labels appeared on existing stock, I don't know how agressive they were in ridding inventory, etc., of them.

Thanks dpb Yea check it out if you feel like it A fellow at another site sent me this link to the 1965 manual from OWWM, and it looks just like it.

And why would you want to date a bandsaw? I wasn't aware that a bandsaw could dance! LOL Brian

It's on 4 casters, I just have to lead............. Tony