vtgaryw
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I had emailed Rikon Customer Service (they're in Billerica, MA) last week to ask if they were going to have any company sponsored sales on this lathe. They gave me the name of a place in Charlestown, NH, which is about a 2 hour drive for me from VT, so I went down there yesterday and brought one home.
Turns out this place (Dan's Max Saver) bought 22 of these from the factory that needed the speed control replaced. Brand new units, apparently Rikon had some faulty speed controls. They supplied this place with replacement controls, and this place has been opening up the boxes, replacing the speed controls, testing the units and selling them. They come with the full 5 year Rikon warranty.
Bottom line - $ 429.99. And no sales tax in NH. Well worth the 2 hour drive.
If anybody wants I can give you the owner's contact information. You walk in the place, and from the front it looks like a liquidation store dealing in a lot of low-end household stuff, but you walk in the back and it's all tools - hand, power, stationary.
Gary
Turns out this place (Dan's Max Saver) bought 22 of these from the factory that needed the speed control replaced. Brand new units, apparently Rikon had some faulty speed controls. They supplied this place with replacement controls, and this place has been opening up the boxes, replacing the speed controls, testing the units and selling them. They come with the full 5 year Rikon warranty.
Bottom line - $ 429.99. And no sales tax in NH. Well worth the 2 hour drive.
If anybody wants I can give you the owner's contact information. You walk in the place, and from the front it looks like a liquidation store dealing in a lot of low-end household stuff, but you walk in the back and it's all tools - hand, power, stationary.
Gary
