These are just breakdown pics of the saw...gotta be careful of black widow spiders here!!! I've only noticed one bolt missing from the motor mount area and everything else seems to be there. "This is a good thing"... In the background are cast pieces from the base that I posted in Part 1. Dave potts warned me about being careful when opening the gearbox and at first I thought I would leave sleeping dogs lie; I did not try to put the saw through its paces (read mistake), when I bought it and never having used a gearbox bandsaw, I was a little puzzled as to how to engage the gearbox and change speeds. Delta tech told me that pulling out the knob would disconnect the gearbox, conversely, pushing it in engaged the gears. Therefore pushing it in would cause the lower box shaft to engage and drive the 4 sheave pulley....I think.... I moved on to cleaning/painting and reassembling of the base and motor areas before being brave enough to tackle the gearbox as I have no credible drawings of how things are supposed to look in there. (can anyone help with paper here??)

The cleaned and painted base began to go together fairly easily and the hardware was wired brushed and coated with a spray of acrylic clear. I am missing one of the sloted screws that holds the bracket to which the sides are mounted, but I am waiting to order any and all parts until I can go no further without them. The nuts and bolts for the base are not snugged up tight yet as I want to wait until a final fit is made with the other 2 sides in place.

The motor was cleaned and touched up with semi gloss black and Do-it gray paint and the motor ID tag was given a coat of clear. The motor was also mounted on four circular 1-1/4" rubber biscuts about 1/2" thick. I Don't know if these are original to machine or not..but they ARE old. I took this chance to make a "quickie" mobile base for the saw out of 1/2" ply and some casters I had kicking around as my previous method of wrestling the saw around was only looking for trouble. The base with motor weighs only about 100 lbs. at this point. OK Delta fans, I think I got it correct... "Gray" on top; "green" always on the bottom, right?

I moved on to the main body of the saw. The results in the picture above are after a simple cleaning with Castrol's Super Clean followed by a steady stream of water from the hose. I am fortunate in this instance that the coat of paint was very loose and the unit will clean right up with some 80 grit sanding, that way i can avoid using stripping solution to get to the original base coat of mfgr's paint.

Final assembly is a slow process for me as this is where I clean up the nuts and bolts as needed. They are then given a coat of clear acrylic. Things such as the bright metal upper blade guard will tarnish quickly, so I broke down and sprayed it aluminum. The only alternatives were to have it bead blasted, followed by nothing and/or clearcoat. Similarly, the wheels.

The motor bell end cover was quite dented, as it is aluminum and fairly soft. I tapped it out as best I could, then used JB Weld as a filler. I then chucked it on the lathe and sanded it to the proper shape. I used semi gloss black as I was unsure of the original color.

The finished machine. It still needs tires and guide blocks.