Looking for Reliant dd 126 manual

Reliant branded tools were sold by a Boston based woodworking supply company called Trend Lines. They had quite a few stores in the North East part of the US as well as a catalog sales business, but they closed their doors sometime back about 1998. Their Reliant brand tools were all Taiwan built and very similar to many other Taiwan made woodworking tools on the market at that time, so many parts for other brands of similar Taiwan made tools will likely fit, no matter the tool color or brand name. It's quite likely that all of these tools came from the same tool manufacturer in Taiwan and just painted or branded differently depending on what their US customer wanted.

If it's parts that you need for your sander, look at other brand names of the same sander and the possibility of ordering parts for that brand name sander. They will very likely be a perfect fit. I own a Reliant 18" band saw and may need to do this same thing some day. My first search would be Grizzly Tools or Shop Fox to see if their tool looked the same as mine. Woodtek is another brand name of Taiwan made tools that are sold through Woodworkers Supply. They might also be of help in finding the needed part.

Charley

It's a Delta but that''s about all I know. It was purchased by my grandfather when he was was fairly young and my dad ended up with it. Here are some pics, sorry about the rotated ones. I can't get them to stop doing that for some reason.

I'm going on 69 and that drill press was made well before I was born. It needs a new belt but they are generic, they go by length, width across the top flat, and whether they are V, flat, ribbed, etc. An industrial supply store would be able to fix you up with a new one. The reason the belt is crossed in a figure 8 direction may be 2 fold. First is to control pulley rotation direction. That was a common way to reverse motor direction back then. It may also be crossed to increase friction of the belt on the pulley to keep it from slipping. In order to tighten the belt you loosen that nut on the head and lift the head up until the belt is tight and then tighten the nut back down to hold the head at that height. That may be a 2 person job. It doesn't look like there is a crank to move it up and down with so one person may need to lift while the other handles the nut. However, there may also be some adjustment at the pulleys. I just can't be sure from those pictures.

There are no bells and whistles there but it should still drill holes and it may have some value as a collectors item.