I recently found a local tool guy who sells and refurbishes Delta woodworking tools. Full tear downs and sells parts too. Anyways, he buys a lot of tools in bulk sales for one price and then breaks them up. Estate sales and auctions that sort of thing, as well as facebook. Included in some of these sales will be non delta tools he just wants to quickly sell and get out of the way. For example, I saw he had a shopsmith over arm router table along with a seperate stand and a bosch table top. I could build me a 2 in 1 for $50 bucks. Couldn’t pass this up.
When I got there I got to see dozens of machines. It was pretty amazing. He showed off a lot of cool stuff. He had a recently finished delta 8 inch jointer and I was like man if I had money I’d buy it. He said well for $200 I’ll sell you this 8 inch powermatic…. it had some light rust but the motor, a 3hp fairly new motor, ran great and the casting all looked great. So, I came home with it too. I plan to fully take apart just because it probably needs it anyway. I had to rearrange the shop a bit to put it in a place I liked but I’m extremely happy.
The next day I sold my 6 inch delta jointer for $100. Its what I had in it, and I now feel like I finally got an 8 inch jointer for a 100 bucks lol.
Thousand Oaks Toolworks 