Delta 37-190 Jointer Opinions

[Mike Lujan]

I'm thinking about purchasing the Delta 37-190 Jointer. This looks
like a pretty solid machine for its class. I don't have room for
the larger industrial class machines. This will be for home shop
use. I'm interested in opinions about this machine from other users.
Thanks
Mike Lujan

[Heartbreak Kid]

Mike,
I bought a 37-190 2-3 years ago. I used (tried to use) it for a
month before returning it to the store for a refund. It's the ONLY tool
I've ever bought, used, and returned that wasn't physically "broken". The
damned thing was just plain junk! I guess it's possible that the one I had
was the only one on the planet that would put a "bow" in the edge of every
board it touched..but I doubt it. Only the infeed table adjusts on the 37-190
and it was my experience that, if you put too much downward pressure on
a board (more than the weight of a short eyebrow hair), the infeed table
would 'tip' on it's axis so that you were feeding stock over a bowed
surface instead of a flat one. I still get a "bowed" edge once in a while
on my 6" Jet Joiner but ONLY with really long boards. I couldn't get a
straight edge on a 12 inch board with that Delta. A 6" Jet sells for
around $470.00 mail order... About $100.00 more than the Delta. But a
world apart in quality and performance (& they take the same blades).

"Bow" = a marked difference between the center of a line and each of it's
ends when compared to a known true parallel line.
HBK
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>

[hau...@mbi.org]

In article <aa7cb$983a...@pantheon.thepoint.net> h...@thepoint.net (Heartbreak Kid) writes:
>From: h...@thepoint.net (Heartbreak Kid)
>Subject: Re: Delta 37-190 Jointer Opinions
>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:08:58 GMT

>In article <45bem5$g...@nonews.col.hp.com>, lu...@col.hp.com (Mike Lujan) says:
>>
>>I'm thinking about purchasing the Delta 37-190 Jointer. This looks
>>like a pretty solid machine for its class. I don't have room for
>>the larger industrial class machines. This will be for home shop
>>use. I'm interested in opinions about this machine from other users.
>>Thanks
>> Mike Lujan

>Mike,
> I bought a 37-190 2-3 years ago.

The 37-190 was not even available 2-3 years ago.

I used (tried to use) it for a
>month before returning it to the store for a refund. It's the ONLY tool
>I've ever bought, used, and returned that wasn't physically "broken". The
>damned thing was just plain junk! I guess it's possible that the one I had
>was the only one on the planet that would put a "bow" in the edge of every
>board it touched..but I doubt it. Only the infeed table adjusts on the 37-190

Wrong. Both tables adjust on the 37-190.

>and it was my experience that, if you put too much downward pressure on
>a board (more than the weight of a short eyebrow hair), the infeed table
>would 'tip' on it's axis so that you were feeding stock over a bowed
>surface instead of a flat one. I still get a "bowed" edge once in a while
>on my 6" Jet Joiner but ONLY with really long boards. I couldn't get a
>straight edge on a 12 inch board with that Delta. A 6" Jet sells for
>around $470.00 mail order... About $100.00 more than the Delta. But a
>world apart in quality and performance (& they take the same blades).

Sounds like you're talking about the 6" 'motorized' jointer, which is indeed
junk. The 37-190 is the much newer 'deluxe' 6" jointer, which is the best
jointer in its class.

Richy

[Janusz R. Mrozek]

My Delta brochure (picked up last week) shows both the 37-190 and the 37-280.
Highland Hardware (Atlanta) sells the former for $470 and the latter for
$370, as of the Early Fall 1995 catalog.

In article <James_Morgan-1...@cis-ts2-slip10.cis.brown.edu>,
Jim Morgan <James_...@Brown.Edu> wrote:

>I think you're talking about the 37-280 ("Motorized Jointer"), which was
>available up till a couple of years age and which sold for around $390.
>The 37-190("Deluxe Jointer") is a newer model (introduced in 1994, I
>believe), which usually sells for about $430-$440. Several months ago,
>there was a long wait time for 37-190s due to (according to Delta) QC
>problems. Other than this, I don't recall seeing negative comments about
>this machine on the list.
>
>Jim Morgan

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[Heartbreak Kid]

I stand humbly corrected as far as model numbers...and I apologize to
the entire woodworking cyberworld for not remembering the stock number of
the worst tool I ever bought (and not looking too closely at the pictures
in my handy International Tool Catalog when I checked to 'be sure' I was
talking apples to apples..which, obviously, I was not). I have not seen
the 37-190 in person so I have no comment on it. Hopefully it'll be as
good as Delta's 12" portable planer and not as bad as any of the other 4
Delta power tools I curse every day.
H...@thepoint.net

[Heartbreak Kid]

hau...@mbi.org wrote:
>In article <aa7cb$983a...@pantheon.thepoint.net> h...@thepoint.net (Heartbreak Kid) writes:
>>From: h...@thepoint.net (Heartbreak Kid)
>>Subject: Re: Delta 37-190 Jointer Opinions
>>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:08:58 GMT
>
>>In article <45bem5$g...@nonews.col.hp.com>, lu...@col.hp.com (Mike Lujan) says:
>>>
>>>I'm thinking about purchasing the Delta 37-190 Jointer. This looks
>>>like a pretty solid machine for its class. I don't have room for
>>>the larger industrial class machines. This will be for home shop
>>>use. I'm interested in opinions about this machine from other users.
>>>Thanks
>>> Mike Lujan
>
>>Mike,
>>
>
>
>

>Sounds like you're talking about the 6" 'motorized' jointer, which is indeed
>junk. The 37-190 is the much newer 'deluxe' 6" jointer, which is the best
>jointer in its class.
>
>Richy
>

Richy,

[Tim Hoyman (hoymant@mfldclin.edu)]

I purchased the 37-190 two months ago and I love it. I have jointed 8
foot boards and 1 foot boards; it edged both well. Also, both tables are
adjustable.

Good Luck,
Tim
hoy...@mfldclin.edu