Their next door neighbor, Bradley Tools and Fasteners, has taken over the business of rebuilding DeWalt saws and providing onsite repair and service for all woodworking machines. For many years, rebuilt saws and DeWalt parts were available from Wolfe Machinery, which wound down their business in 2016. Within a short time Lancaster went under and the rights to the DeWalt saw designs went to The Original Saw Company, which moved production to Britt, IA. In 1989 the industrial radial arm saw line was sold to two of its former executives, who founded Lancaster Machinery Co. We have seen a model 7170 10" radial arm saw marked "Black & Decker (U.S.) Inc., Hunt Valley, MD. One curiosity of the B&D-era DeWalt is that some radial arm saws were built in Italy and imported here. Still owned by B&D, DeWalt now operates as DeWalt Industrial Tool Co., headquartered in Hampstead, MD. DeWalt was operated as a subsidiary of B&D until 1970, when it became the Lancaster Machinery Division. In 1960 AMF sold DeWalt to budding conglomerate Black & Decker, whose reputation for quality handheld power tools had, at that time, only been slightly sullied by their value-engineered line of homeowner tools. Sales of these DeWalt/Monarch badged machines were modest. Those Monarch machines were sold under the DeWalt name over the next few years. In 1951, AMF bought most of the "Monarch" line of woodworking machinery from American Saw Mill Machinery Co., which had recently ceased operations. AMF is more famous for making bowling equipment and for owning Harley Davidson from 1969 to 1981. was reorganized in 1947 as a subsidiary of the newly-formed DeWalt Inc. By modern standards, some of their ways of using the saws are startlingly unsafe.ĭeWalt Products Co.
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DeWalt introduced new smaller and lower cost saws as well as a series of booklets and magazine articles on how to use your new DeWalt saws in a variety of tasks around the home. After the war DeWalt discovered considerable demand for home-shop machines, which had not been a major market for them. And especially in the Pacific Theater, DeWalt saws were standard issue at military bases to handle all sawing tasks: ripping, cross-cutting, miter and bevel cuts. DeWalt saws were used in the US to to build barracks, housing, crates, and so on. Despite the efforts of various competitors, DeWalt dominated the rapidly growing market for radial arm saws.ĭuring World War II, many GIs got their first exposure to DeWalt saws. DeWalt himself jumped on the bandwagon when he patented such a saw, but the original DeWalt design proved to be the winner.
Several patents were issued for saws where the carriage was attached to the end of the arm, and the whole arm slid back and forth with the carriage. With DeWalt's success, various competitors attempted to improve on his idea and/or circumvent his patents.
and Mackintosh Hutchinson, were otherwise similar but used belts to transfer power from a motor to the saw arbor. Earlier saws, e.g., from Toronto makers Elliot Woodworker, Ltd.
His key innovation was directly powering the sawblade from a motor. Ray DeWalt was the first to use a motor directly driving a saw arbor, the motor suspended in a pivoting and tilting yoke attached to a carriage that slid on a horizontal arm. The saw was a success and over the next couple of decades the company diversified its product line to cover a range of sizes: blades between 8 and 24 inches diameter, and arms between 12 and 30 inches long. was founded in 1924, two years after Ray DeWalt invented the radial arm saw, which he originally called the "Wonder-Worker".
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