Hello, I’m looking Delta.Rockwell 20 inch vertical bandsaw. It is model number 28 - 3

bellaireroad · Apr 28, 2018

Model number 28 -365. It has variable speed which works. There is also a shift lever to shift from high to low. My understanding is that you need to shift with the machine turned off, however when that is done it will not go into gear. The only way it goes into gear is to shift when the machine is running, and it makes a clunking sound when that happens. Is this a fatal flaw.?

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thermite · Apr 28, 2018

bellaireroad said:
My understanding is that you need to shift with the machine turned off, however when that is done it will not go into gear. The only way it goes into gear is to shift when the machine is running, and it makes a clunking sound when that happens. Is this a fatal flaw.?

Given time, you can probably make it INTO a "fatal flaw".

Machine OFF doesn't mean you might not have to swing a cover open and move the wheels so gears line-up.

bellaireroad · Apr 28, 2018

thermite said:
Given time, you can probably make it INTO a "fatal flaw".

Machine OFF doesn't mean you might not have to swing a cover open and move the wheels so gears line-up.

Ahh... so this is normal function?

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thermite · Apr 28, 2018

bellaireroad said:
Ahh... so this is normal function?

No idea what a Delta bandsaw considers "normal". I never even dated one, let alone married it.

Makes sense for most manual "crash box" transmissions lacking "syncromesh", though.
Ain't as if you could double-de-clutch the average bandsaw as if it were a 1931 Duesenberg.

neilho · Apr 29, 2018

Put more baldly, it is indeed normal function, and if it's shifted while running, eventually a gear tooth will break. Can't tell you when - maybe tomorrow, maybe 20 years from now, but eventually, it will happen. Kinda like driving through a blind corner in the wrong lane. So....please don't do that.

As Bill writes, moving the wheels back and forth a bit while engaging the shift lever will help, as will grabbing the blade and moving it up and down.

thermite · Apr 29, 2018

neilho said:
as will grabbing the blade and moving it up and down.

That's what I DID.. on another make.. but I wont admit to it, I was out sick that week, someone else must ha' punched my timecard, I was never on that Company's payroll to begin with, and they didn't even HAVE both bandsaws!

So there! "At your own bleedin' risk" IOW.

bellaireroad · Apr 30, 2018

thermite said:
No idea what a Delta bandsaw considers "normal". I never even dated one, let alone married it.
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Consider yourself lucky, I hear they have sharp teeth

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thermite · Apr 30, 2018

bellaireroad said:
Consider yourself lucky, I hear they have sharp teeth

In my episodic random boredom... I once picked up a DVD on that. Turned out to be both more graphic than expected.. and funny as all Hell in the way it was handled!

Well .. given I've managed to AVOID teeth in that physical location, even if not those of a Divorce as deferred "bite", and can BELIEVE it funny, 27 years into far the lovelier marriage anyway!

Have a care on your rebuild, though.

Seems to be an "occupational hazard" that Machine Tool rebuilders can grow teeth in their Anal sphincters.. then chew up one computer keyboard after another "teething" whilst singing religious cult hymns through their arse out into the vastness of the ethereal internet.

Hodge · Apr 30, 2018

I've pretty got pretty much the same saw maybe a few years different. Rock the wheel and it drops in.

Hodge · Apr 30, 2018

However, I use it for metal cutting 98% of the time, I rarely change it.

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