Eric Patterson...Help!

Rick Pierce

Rick Pierce

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Eric,

After tearing the shop apart and putting it mostly back together, including moving my father-in-law's workbench to my house, getting the old table out of the shop and putting in the "new" old table, planing down the oak slabs to discover some damn fine grain underneath, and adding two coats of gym floor sealer, I still don't have the classic Delta up and running. Final arranging, setup of the planer, and cutting a hole in the wall for the heat/ac unit are the last steps. It's usable now, but will be wonderful very soon. Oh, and adding the "man fridge"...gotta have a man fridge.

Problme with the Delta is that I CANNOT GET ITURRA TO SEND ME A @$#%^!$^# CATALOG! I called last fall, then left a message sometime between Thanksgiving/Christmas, left a message about six weeks ago, and spoke to a real person again about three weeks ago. I got a story about issues with their printing company, but ye gods, I hardly ever have to beg a company to become a customer...

Any suggestions? This saw begs to be used, but without parts, I'm dead in the water.
 
Rick

What parts are you looking for? These guys http://www.sawcenter.com/bandsaw_parts.htm cover a lot of the basics.

Got my Parks planer restoration completed. Runs nice and doesn't bog down like my DeWalt lunch box planer does.

Before:

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After:

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wood not stacked widest to narrowest and there's actually a leaning box of some sort in one of the cubby holes....

Geez.....must have been a wild woodworking party at the Pattersons over the weekend...

Steve
 
Judy and I were just looking at your before and after photo's and we really were impressed by all the work you put into restoring that planer. Just beautiful!

Dave
 
Well if we're going to hijack Ricks thread, I may as well join in. hehe ;>)

Nice looking rebuild job there Eric. Was the belt cover missing? If so did you find one to buy or was this one custom made to fit? How soon before you outgrow the garage and will be building a shop in the back lot?
 
Thanks guys, I appreciate the compliemnts. That old planer was a toughie. I have more in it than it's worth due to the transmission having to be completely rebuilt. Luckily I found a parts machine otherwise mine was going to become a parts machine itself. It fought me a lot during the resto project but in the end I think we are both happy. With the 3hp motor she flat takes off some wood. When DeWalt would give up the ghost on stuff that doesn't even phase this one. They don't make them like this anymore. Let's see how many of the Chiwanese planers are going 70 years from now.

Dave, the blet guard was there all along, just not in the "before" pic. I already have outgrown my shop but Michelle won't budge on building a detached workshop. You've seen my house and know we have a perfect lot for one but she has this kooky dream we are going to build a new house. Problem is the area she wants to build has all these stupid covenants. I have two boats, an old pickup, and a kennel. None of those are allowed. So for the mean time I'm crammed into a small area. I'm tempted to buy some more machinery and put them where she parks her van and say "well we don't have a choice now unless you want to scrape ice or get wet when it rains." Of course if I tried that I'd probably be declaring my own celabacy haha.

Eric
 
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wood not stacked widest to narrowest and there's actually a leaning box of some sort in one of the cubby holes....

Geez.....must have been a wild woodworking party at the Pattersons over the weekend...

Steve
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We gave up the wild woodworking parties after a few lost digits. Opening a beer can can be a real bitch when you're missing fingers. Thanks for pointing out the tilting box. It's straight now, I whipped out the level and it's on the money now.
 
Eric great Job I sure do love seeing old machines brought back with such loving care. I'm sure that planer will last another 70 yrs.
 

Eric,nice restor on the planer and I think you are on the right track for building a shop on your current property.The new house would probably restrict hanging out sheets to dry with that nice fresh air smell to them.
3Dogs
 
Eric,

I need the table insert piece, new thrust bearings, new guide blocks, riser block, the longer hexagonal guide bar (as opposed to round), longer blade guards (original on the throat of the saw is wooden) and probably new tires, at a minimum. I don't have a guide rail on the front for a cutting fence, but I don't really use one anyway at this point.

I'll check out the site you mentioned.

Rick
 
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