My Delta 10" Contractor's Saw (Model: 34-444 * Serial: 91K64857 * Ref: CS4L3) has bad bearings (sounds like). I read a few posts and watched a couple videos. Looks like I have enough savvy to remove the old bearings, but need to take it to a shop for pressing the new (unless it's okay to bang on the new bearings so long as only striking the proper race--I can figure out a way to do that). Anyhow, I'm looking for guidance to remove the arbor. What's the minimum I need to do? I have the original manual and exploded view. Any videos? Thanks! m * P.S. Anyone in the Twin Cities area done this before?
Delta Contractor's Saw--Remove Arbor--Bad Bearings
- Thread starter mbruffey
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Sounds like you have the perfect excuse to buy a new shop press. 
I have owned a Delta 34-444 for over 40 years, a great home shop saw. I have never had to do anything to it so I can't offer any tips. I also have a Delta 34-500 8" table saw (1950 vintage) that I recently restored including replacing the arbor bearings. IIRC, one bearing is fixed in position while the other can float a little as the bearings heat up. These threads have some instructions on replacing Delta contractors saw bearings.
www.lumberjocks.com
Looks like yours was built Aug.1991.
wiki.vintagemachinery.org
I have owned a Delta 34-444 for over 40 years, a great home shop saw. I have never had to do anything to it so I can't offer any tips. I also have a Delta 34-500 8" table saw (1950 vintage) that I recently restored including replacing the arbor bearings. IIRC, one bearing is fixed in position while the other can float a little as the bearings heat up. These threads have some instructions on replacing Delta contractors saw bearings.
Changing Bearings on a Table Saw
www.lumberjocks.com
WoodCentral's BP Archives: Rebuilding A Rockwell Tablesaw
Rebuilding A Rockwell Tablesaw
www.woodcentral.com
Looks like yours was built Aug.1991.
The Delta Vintage Project - Part One: Serial Numbers - VintageMachinery.org Knowledge Base (Wiki)
bubinga
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What did you ever come up with, did you get the bearings replaced?
Yes you should be able to tap the bearings on I don't know about banging them on
as you stated bearing pressure on the appropriate bearing race.
Yes you should be able to tap the bearings on I don't know about banging them on
as you stated bearing pressure on the appropriate bearing race.
bubinga, I have not yet dug into the thing any further. I got too busy with other things this summer. Didn't want to take it apart and end up with parts lying around. I have a machinist friend who offered to acquire the bearings once identified and who may have a press that can do the job--once I get around to it!
I replaced the bearings on my older delta saw, admittedly not the same model # as yours, and found the tolerances to not be so tight that it required a press or excessing hammering. Runs quiet now even without the likely proper tools to accomplish the job.
Indexmill
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Don't hammer on bearings. Use an arbor press, hydraulic press or a vise or a large C-clamp. Don't hammer; not even on the "right" race.