Found a Delta 28-276 on sale and couldn’t pass it up. Brought it home and began the assembly process. Found a strange part (lift shoe) lying lose inside the box. Just about finished with assembly and found that the tension lever didn’t work; no way to get tension on the blade. So I took the upper wheel assembly and blade guard housing apart to see what might be wrong. Turns out the tension crank was broken and the part I had found lying lose inside the box (lift shoe) was missing from its place in the tension crank cavity. Additionally, the piece that had broken off of the tension crank was nowhere to be found. Now what really bothers me about this is that neither the lift shoe nor the broken piece from the tension crank could fall out of the cavity with the blade guard housing in place. There was no evidence that the tool had ever been removed from its shipping box. That would means that the damage had been covered up when the tool was packaged at the factory. I’m a fan of Delta tools - but this incident does nothing to bolster my support for their products.
I didn’t waste time trying to get a replacement part under warranty and just made an improved version of their original tension crank (which is cast metal) using a grade five bolt and some ingenuity.
Thought some of you might want to know about this experience so you can watch for similar issues in your future.
I didn’t waste time trying to get a replacement part under warranty and just made an improved version of their original tension crank (which is cast metal) using a grade five bolt and some ingenuity.
Thought some of you might want to know about this experience so you can watch for similar issues in your future.