Photo Index - Delta Specialty/Delta Mfg. Co./Delta-Rockwell/Rockwell Intl. - 1382 drill press

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Delta Specialty/Delta Mfg. Co./Delta-Rockwell/Rockwell Intl.
Milwaukee, WI; Jackson, TN; Tupelo, MS

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Drill Press
Machine Size:	17" floor mount
Submitted By:	Daniel Wenzel

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	1382 drill press
Date of Manufacturer:	1940 ?
Serial Number:
Last Updated	7/5/2005 7:38:20 PM

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I thought the model# was DP-600 but was informed ( after posting )by Joe Potter that it was actually 1382. The DP-600 is actually a part #. I bought this drill press because I liked the "flash gordon" hood design. It was encrusted in flaking green paint and heavily rusted. It had been refitted with a 1HP Baldor 1PH motor. It is tagged on the side with a brass label "Weber Aircraft" which may or may not still exist in Los Angeles. This model was available with a foot pedal which I am hoping to find one day. My best guess is that it was manufactured around the start of WWII.

This is Joe's post to me:
Hi Dan: I just happened to notice your new picture posting on owwm. Nice drill press! Those 17" presses are one of the best and longest-lived tools Delta ever made. The early ones like yours, are cool as you noted, because of the fairly-rare early belt guard, which was only used up to maybe late '41 or early '42. Yours is missing the rear part, which was made of pot-metal and usually ended up broken after a while. I don't believe they ever sold them with only the front guard, as they did with the 14"-series DPs. See pic attached for a similar (1939) DP in our shop which is still in use with the whole guard. I had always thought that they went to the sheet-metal guard during the war to conserve other materials, but the early rear one was such a poor design (from a functional and material standpoint only, because it looks great) that they would have "improved" it anyway. In the slo-speed version, it hits the front pulley unless you "tweak" it when you open it, and in general, it can be difficult to open and close. It also made for belt access problems on the multi-spindle units. The later sheet metal guards lifted straight up instead of swinging out. Actually, yours is either a model 1382 (slo-speed, #2MT spindle, production table) or 1382-H (hi-speed, etc). The "DP-600" is the head casting number, aka part number. If you don't have a serial number tag, it's probably 1938-39 vintage, as you have the "flat" knob on the depth-indicator. The very first ones used a "faucet" type knob, like those used on several other Delta machines.

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