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Switch issue with Delta 46-460

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ebrannon

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A Canadian friend uses a Delta 46-460 and he has chronic problems with the power switch. It is now not functioning at all, and the Canadian service center in Peterborough, ON, said it would be quite a while before they could replace it.

Anyone else had this problem with power Switch (including forward-reverse)?

I am considering a Delta for my travel lathe since it has a number of nice features, but this is question on reliability in my mind.
 
46-460

I had a six month old 46-460 that had a bad vibration in motor, I contacted the Black and Decker repair center in Mississauga, Ontario they are on Dundas Street, and resolved my issue in 4 weeks (replaced Motor) maybe a larger center can offer quicker help to your friend.
Ian
 
For what its worth ......................

since Delta was sold By B&D/Stanley, parts and many new machines are impossible to get. The new owners are promising dealers that they hope to start filling orders sometime in June.
 
Very few of these types of parts are produced for this machine only. I'd bet that if he takes the switch out of the lathe and looks at the markings on it he'll be able to get a replacement from a number of electric supply sources.

A year or so ago I ran into a switch problem with a small Jet lathe. The switch was readily available from places other than Jet.

Just my 2¢.
 
Owen Lowe said:
Very few of these types of parts are produced for this machine only. I'd bet that if he takes the switch out of the lathe and looks at the markings on it he'll be able to get a replacement from a number of electric supply sources.
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May not even be the same switch from week to week, depending on supplier. In any case, a similar switch from the Borg or the Shack can get him up and running in no time.

Free advice - run those wires from the motor to a box you can mount near the tailstock or wherever you won't have to reach through and/or over the danger zone to change positions. I'm real pleased with having mine on the wall behind the tailstock on the 3000. Betting Delta's is another thin contact POS like my original. Like replacing bearings, when you buy, get the grade they SHOULD have used at the beginning.
 
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Lots of good suggestions.

As an update, they told him earliest they would have replacement switches is end of May. This is from the Delta Service rep in Ontario.

I realize that if you want an inexpensive lathe that has power and variable speed, and size, there are trade off.'s. This is one of them.
 
ebrannon said:
.... I realize that if you want an inexpensive lathe that has power and variable speed, and size, there are trade off.'s. This is one of them.
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This is just an opinion, but I suspect it doesn't really have much to do with the machine, but rather what is going on with the buying and selling of businesses these days. Several years ago (I believe that it was in 2005) B&D bought Delta/PC from Pentair and announced that they had some big plans including upgrading the Delta product line with US made machinery. The dust of that acquisition had barely settled before Stanley bought B&D in a $4.5B deal in 2009 (I don't know if that was all or part of B&D). Stanley has been very active in buying and selling companies over the past several years and I guess that Delta is one of the more recent ones to be spun off in early 2011. This did not impact Porter Cable which is still part of Stanley B&D. I can't think of much that Stanley did to enhance the reputation of Delta or PC. I don't know if it was under B&D or Stanley that several of the best PC tools for professionals were discontinued and switched to weekend woodworker products. Of course Delta (now called Delta Power Equipment, formerly Delta International) had to vacate the Delta/PC facility in Jackson, TN so they are now in a facility in Columbia, SC. I have a lot of Delta equipment mostly from the early 1990's so I hope that I will be able to get repair parts in the future. I do know that a couple years ago they dropped support on my stationary planer.
 
I just discovered that the new owner of Delta is a subsidiary of Chang Type Industrial Company in Taiwan. They purchased the full line of Delta’s woodworking tools and machines. I suppose that is where the tools will be made.
 
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