On May 9, 11:17*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:


Is it a variable speed? If so...they can indeed be noisy from the git
go.

Gunner

No. It is an ordinary single phase motor with very noisy bearings.
It makes a lot of noise when there is no belt connected to the motor.
A supplier like MSC would have replaced the motor or replaced the
whole drill press.
They made a mistake in asking Grizzly if the noise was normal. They
should have told Grizzly they wanted to exchange the drill press
because the bearings were bad.

Dan