Recent content by jgrickett

Thanks! I've looked inside the cover, and there's the starting capacitor plus a large open relay that probably serves the same purpose as the smaller glass-enclosed one that DeWalt used in their dynamic brake system. If you do have photos of one of those B&D motors, though, I'd appreciate...

Yes, 5/8. No clue what I was thinking earlier. I'm familiar with the electronic brake. My DeWalt has, or rather had, one like that. Some oaf dropped something very heavy on the box that held the circuitry, smashing it and the little glass-enclosed relay inside, before I bought it, and the...

Thanks! Good to know. Now I just have to figure out how it got there and where to find a replacement thermal overload. I suppose someone could have scavenged a B&D motor off another saw, but the carriage is definitely a Delta and I'd be shocked to find the trunnions would be close enough to...

This came up on another thread back in 2020, and someone suggested that perhaps the square drive had been machined, or perhaps even filed, down to 7/16. That was my first thought, too, looking at the nice, sharp corners on yours. On the other hand, the OP stated that his was found with a bunch...

I don't believe I've ever seen a Comet. I was going to ask if they use a belt or gears to offset the blade from the motor shaft, but I see you answered that. The only disadvantage to the design, so far as I can see, is that it can't be mounted close to a wall. I especially like the large...

Question for the group: Several years back I saw, on FB marketplace, a radial arm saw with a worm drive motor. If I recall correctly, it was a Sears Craftsman. I needed another saw like I needed a third nostril, so I didn't buy it, but it's intrigued me ever since. It seems as if a worm...

Ripping in general is scary, or should be. If you're not at least a bit apprehensive about it, you're probably not paying attention. There's a lot of things that can go wrong, and when they do, they go wrong really fast. I've used both table saws and an RAS for ripping, and I have to say the...

The brass or bronze says it's not from an internal combustion engine, and the massive construction of the piston says it's not intended for any sort of high-speed operation. That's just too much weight to be starting and stopping several times per second. The scooped out portion in the piston...

There's an old fisherman's saying, "If a man's not afraid of the sea he'll soon by drownded, for he'll go out on a day when he shouldn't. We be afraid of the sea, so we only be drownded now and again." Using any power tool, or just about any other sort of tool, it's well to keep that in mind...

I'm currently building a table for a similar one. If you look on http://vintagemachinery.org/, they have a number of manuals, parts lists, and such, that members have scanned and saved there as pdf files that you can download. I'm sure I saw at least one that listed the measurements of each...

I have a quite similar one, and it, plus the cabinet underneath, are a light gray, not unlike the usual Delta Rockwell colors that have been in use forever. I have a question for you now. After scraping the crud off, I've discovered that the motor has a Black & Decker label on it, and the saw...

I answered your question below, but now I have a question of my own. I just bought a Delta 10" turret radial arm saw and am in the process of refurbishing it. It's one of the big ones with the really massive carriage and a motor that draws 17 amps using 120 volts. I was a bit taken aback when...

I tend to agree with the comments recommending that you find another sort of disc sander, but if you really want one, Freud makes a combination calibration disc/sanding disk that should do the job. I have one, but have never used it for sanding because I bought it for calibrating, not sanding...

Ryobi, for a brief time in the 1980s or early 90s, marketed a radial arm saw that had a cable device like that built in. I saw them in stores, probably Home Depot, and wasn't impressed with the saw; too light, too flimsy and underpowered. The stories about the blade auto-feeding into the wood...

I'm an old tool junky, and it shows in the shop. I do have a good Hitachi dual bevel compound miter saw that's handy for things like decking, plus a little Skil flooring saw that I bought cheap, but I don't use either for serious cabinet work. I've looked at track saws, but never could justify...