ANGLE GAGE - TILT SCALE - for VINTAGE DELTA 14" BAND SAWS - ALL NEW

Description

ANGLE GAGE OR TILT SCALE FOR A VINTAGE DELTA 14" BAND SAW’S WORKTABLE SETTING
This is an “all new” banana-shaped angle gage plate to fit the vintage Delta band saw worktable.
Although a couple of trunnions are shown in the listing photos for reference, this offering is only for one red labeled tilt gage component.  The trunnions or screws shown are not included in this sale.
The original angle gage or tilt indicator plate that is used to set the worktable position was made from thin aluminum and was often dented, dinged, scratched, damaged, painted over, or lost.
Our tilt indicator plates are newly manufactured and better than the originals.
These nominal 3/8” x 3” plates are made of stainless steel and have been carefully and painstakingly recreated from the dimensions of the original plates and from the original artwork.
The indicator blanks were laser cut from .030" thick 304 stainless steel before being carefully deburred and brush finished, prior to application of a high quality bright red vinyl decal.
The holes in the angle gage plates are an exact to match the original plates, and use the original holes to mount.   The holes in the gage are 1/8" diameter and can accomodate either rivets or screws to anchor them to the trunnion casting.
We tap our restored trunnions to 5-40 thread and use stainless steel pan head screws.
Each plate is individually bagged and shipped in a protective envelope.
Shipping is .00 to anywhere in the lower 48 states.  Other locations may have to pay an additional shipping fee
When restoring or refurbishing a Delta band saw, getting the old angle gage plate off is always difficult because of the drive rivets Delta used to install it.  Removing the rivets, more often than not, damages the gage plate to some extent.
That problem has gone away, now that a replacement gage is available.  We use a die grinder to remove front portion of the rivet and carefully drive them out, with less concern about plate damage.
Installation of a new plate after the machine is painted and complete can be done with OEM type rivets or with screws like we use in our restoration work.
The original rivets holes can be drilled out with a #38 drill bit and tapped for 5-40 pan head screws.  We find that screwing the new plate back in place with stainless steel makes more sense than using the once installed nonremoval rivets.