Delta DP 600 OEM color
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Hoorn
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It would have looked like this:
This is the original paint from a 1947 Delta grinder, to my eyes a blue gray.
This is the original paint from a 1947 Delta grinder, to my eyes a blue gray.
with war efforts in effect , it may have been a different colour too
Hoorn
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Delta used a variety of color schemes from the 1930-60s. In the mid 1930s up to about 1937 it would have looked like this:
This would be representative of the gray green you mentioned. A color variant of this would return again after Rockwell sold off Delta, but that would be decades later.
The blue gray I showed you in my previous post was fairly consistent throughout most of the 40s, becoming a slightly lighter color by the 1950s. That lighter color would have looked like this:
Every machine in that photograph is from the year 1950.
The question posed was what would it have looked like in 1946; the grinder shown was from 1947, that is the color it would have been in that time period. With WWII over in 1945, war restrictions would not have affected Delta's color scheme in 1946 or 47.
This would be representative of the gray green you mentioned. A color variant of this would return again after Rockwell sold off Delta, but that would be decades later.
The blue gray I showed you in my previous post was fairly consistent throughout most of the 40s, becoming a slightly lighter color by the 1950s. That lighter color would have looked like this:
Every machine in that photograph is from the year 1950.
The question posed was what would it have looked like in 1946; the grinder shown was from 1947, that is the color it would have been in that time period. With WWII over in 1945, war restrictions would not have affected Delta's color scheme in 1946 or 47.
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Were you able to get a new dial scale or was yours in that kind of condition?
Thanks a lot
Badges and scale are original to the machine afaik.
They are in great condition . I have a source for the badges I think except I will have to give them specs for the scale but I think I can work it.
Thanks again