EdM
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I received my new Jet 1221VS a week ago, purchased from CPO Outlets thru my Amazon account.
The unit seems to be price fixed at 1099, with free shipping when purchased with my Amazon Prime account.
This unit, which seems to be excellent quality, and solid as a rock, weighs close to 100 lbs, so I'm sure my prime driver now hates me .
Turned it on and revved it up to 1500 rpm, it sounded like a jet taking off. Removing the drive belt revealed that the motor is dead silent, and the spindle only freewheels about 180% degrees, so I figured that I have one or two bad spindle bearings.
Took a frustrating 2 days to get a return call from Jet's tech support group, but they agreed to send me new bearings, rather than have me go thru the hassle of boxing up the unit and swapping it for a new one.
Bearings arrived in 2 days.......
Saga to be continued when I have the time to replace them....
The unit seems to be price fixed at 1099, with free shipping when purchased with my Amazon Prime account.
This unit, which seems to be excellent quality, and solid as a rock, weighs close to 100 lbs, so I'm sure my prime driver now hates me .
Turned it on and revved it up to 1500 rpm, it sounded like a jet taking off. Removing the drive belt revealed that the motor is dead silent, and the spindle only freewheels about 180% degrees, so I figured that I have one or two bad spindle bearings.
Took a frustrating 2 days to get a return call from Jet's tech support group, but they agreed to send me new bearings, rather than have me go thru the hassle of boxing up the unit and swapping it for a new one.
Bearings arrived in 2 days.......
Saga to be continued when I have the time to replace them....
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