The Delta Vintage Project Part One Serial Numbersby Keith Bohn plus contributions and edits from the community. Alright. Ok. Getting Better. Delta Drill Press GuardPretty Good. Awesome. IntroductionIf you are of the type who easily follows shamans or gets fooled into get rich schemes you are the one Im looking for. Its hoped, by me, that by the end of. Delta and becoming obsessed with Born On Datesand intagingDelta on the fly. If. you are the strong type, not easily duped, please move along. This write up will act as the jumping off point for anyone wanting to vintage an old Delta machine or for someone wanting to submit content on a machine of a. V_Ah1z4mrpo/U5o7yr6QnHI/AAAAAAAACOs/opSaYYlLSBs/w481-h269-no/Atlas+drill+press.jpg' alt='12 Delta Drill Press' title='12 Delta Drill Press' />It contains the most rudimentary data required to start ones career dating Delta. Please read it carefully as there are subtle nuances and. At the very least you will be able to establish date. The easiest way to vintage a Delta machine is of course with the serial number. There are guidelines though. Delta began assigning serial numbers. If your machine lacks a serial number plate or holes to mount one then it is from early 1. We have divided the serial number plates used by Delta into three styles, as detailed below. Style 1 plates were made of aluminum and measured 12 X 3 with rivet holes approximately 2 34 on center. This style was used beginning circa 1. Older Delta Serial Number Plate. Style 2 plates are from the World War II era, and are made from one of three materials brass, steel or oilboard. Style 2. A plates were made of brass plate and are from late 1. They are very rarely seen. Delta Brass Wartime Plate. We have seen two other examples of a brass plate, one of which has red painted background and the other has traces of red paint remaining. It is likely that the plate shown above originally had a red background. Style 2. B plates were made of steel, appeared in 1. Delta Steel Serial Number Plate. Style 2. C plates were made of oilboard dense coated cardboard and measured 34 x 3 with rivet holes spaced the same as the first style plates. They were used between early 1. They are fairly common but are somewhat fragile and are often missing or in poor condition. Images/DeltaDP/DeltaDPA2.jpg' alt='Delta Dp220 Manual Pdf' title='Delta Dp220 Manual Pdf' />Delta Oilboard Serial Number Plate. Style 3 plates were introduced in late 1. They are made of aluminum and measure 1 x 4 with rivet holes approximately 3 34 on center. Delta rockwell dp 220 drill press motor mount. Drill press rockwelldelta, 3 phase, variable speed with owners manual. Auction 399. eBay. Notify me. Number of Pages 11 This is a reproduction, not a photocopy, of an original DeltaMilwaukee 14 Drill Press with DP220 Head Casting Operating and Maintenance. Drill press manuals need a manual for a westward. DELTAMILWAUKEE14DrillPressDP220Instructions. Manual for a westward drill press. Newer Delta Serial Number Plate. This aluminum serial number plate is from a 1. Unisaw, and is attached with screws. Delta Unisaw Serial Number Plate. John-Deere-Tractor/deltarockwell-17/png/600/281203313269_1.jpg' alt='Delta Drill Press Dp220' title='Delta Drill Press Dp220' />Some machines, for whatever reason, may have had their serial number plates removed or torn off, making a positive vintage identification more difficult. You can however locate the rivet or screw holes in the machine and perhaps a ghost image of the plate, and use the distance between the holes to narrow down the machines vintage 2 34 means that the missing plate was Style 1 or 2, and 3 34 means a Style 3 plate. Where plates were located on individual machines would take a paper unto itself. I should also note, plate locations on the same machines werent always located in the same spot. For instance, Ive seen plates on the back of a Unisaw cabinet as well as the front. Keep in mind that machines made prior to 1. Please read the rest of this article though before positively determining your machines vintage. Dp 220 Drill Press PartsIts also come to light, from various discussions on the OWWM discussion forum, that Delta used some serial numbers during the same period that dont quite jive with whats known by me. For instance, some five digit serial numbers on 1x. Deltas. If ever this mystery is solved this write up will be amended. Deltas Serial Number List I received this list from a fellow OWWM member. Someone had given it to him at his local Delta service center with no explanation or additional information. For the most part I have found it to be valid but have run into a couple of instances where it has not been 1. Therefore, take it for what it is. The Delta Vintage Project Part One Serial Numbers Print. RSS. DP220, or, LTA325. This parts code pointed the part specifically to a particular machine. Shop OZ Metal and Wood Machine Manuals. Radial Arm Saws Owners Instructions Parts Manual 1058. ROCKWELLDELTA 17 Variable Speed Drill Press Manual. If you called them, Delta used to be able to give you the month the machine was manufactured. This is something you wont get from the list below, and now that Delta has disappeared from these shores, that detailed information has been lost. The serial number list is broken down into three parts. Machines built in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Bellefountaine, Ohio had an all number code. According. to the list machines were built in Bellefountaine all the way up to 1. Machines built in Tupelo, Mississippi had an alphanumeric code. The serial number list starts with 1. These machines would have been built in Milwaukee, Wisconsin up to 1. The following is based on this original document. Straight Numerical Series used by Milwaukee CrescentThe strange jump from 1. If your serial number lies between these two values then all we can say is that your saw dates from 1. The brass serial number tag, above, shows a 1. Year. From To. 19. The Bellefountaine Years Year. From. To. 19. 53. Alpha Numeric Series Used By Tupelo Division Year. From. To. 19. 51. AA 1. 00 AB 7. AA 7. AJ 2. AJ 2. 77. 5 AX 9. AX 9. 47. 1 BE 4. BE 4. 90. 7 BL 9. BM 1. 00 BO 9. BO 9. BU 8. BU 8. 75. 1 CC 6. CC 6. 62. 1 CK 4. CK 4. 07. 3 CO 9. CO 9. 06. 6 CU 4. CU 4. 30. 0 CX 9. CY 0. 00. 1 DB 5. DB 5. 00. 1 DG 1. DG 1. 01. 0 DK 5. DK 5. 91. 8 DO 4. DO 4. 78. 4 DS 9. DS 9. 45. 3 EF 9. EG 1. 00 EI 2. EI 2. EP 5. EP 5. 40. 0 EW 2. EW 2. 37 FI 3. FI 3. GA 7. GA 7. 83 GZ 2. GZ 2. 47. 8 HR 6. HR 3. 05. 9 IQ 9. IR 0. 00. 1 JW 9. JX 1. 00 KP 9. LW 1. LW 9. KP 9. 72. 6 LD 5. Driver Printer Epson Stylus Photo 1390 For Windows 8. LV 1. 00 LV 9. LX 1. LX 9. LY 1. 00 MB 5. LD 5. 59. 5 LH 9. LH 9. 32. 7 LN 9. LO 1. 00 LO 9. MB 5. MC 7. Letter prefixes LP, LQ, LR, LS, LT, and LU were not used. Letter prefixes MJ, MK, ML, MM, MN, MO, MP, NA, and NB range in years 1. Delta may still have this information. Later date coded serial numbersBeginning July 3. March 1. 98. 4 in Canada and Brazil, serial numbers for Delta Rockwell machines changed to an eight digit number. The first three of these digits were a date code, the remaining 5 made up the individual serial number for the machine. Example 8. 3B0. 12. The date code consisted of the two digit fiscal year of production followed by a letter which designated the month of production according to the following code A October. G April. B November. H May. C December. I June. D January. J July. E February. K August. F March. L September. This sequence reflected Rockwells fiscal year of October through September. In the example, the date code 8. B indicated a machine built in November, 1. Rockwells 1. 98. Dated coded serial numbers are covered in this original document. On April 1. 2, 1. Pentair purchased the Rockwell machinery line. Sometime shortly thereafter the date coding system changed to calendar year instead of Rockwells fiscal year. The letter codes changed to A January through L December. When in doubt you should always try and verify the vintage of your machine with any subtle attributes of the manufacturing period. For instance, a Unisaw with a. Raised sheet metal rays on the 1. As this project. goes on its hoped that all of these changes will be brought to light and put in written form. In the mean time feel free to email me with. Most of what I find interesting comes from these requests. If you do not have a serial number all is not lost. Its possible to get within a decade of your machines vintage from a description or photo. Delta Drill Press Owners Manuals.