On Sun, 10 May 2009 00:17:28 -0700, the infamous Gunner Asch
scrawled the following:

On Sat, 9 May 2009 20:58:01 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

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
True indeed.

Or they can simply bite the bullet and spend the $15 for new bearings of
good quality.

I got the Chinese one for $7.50. They wanted $27 for the SKF bearing
and I wasn't interested. This for the idler on the DP I got from you
two years ago. I should probably install that sometime, huh? sigh

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