Welp. It finally happened. Sometime last year I began to hear a noise in the motor of my Jet EVS 1642. Of course it was just out of warranty. I bought it May of 2009 and started realizing the noise sometime last fall or so...
Well Saturday I was in the shop turning some coffee table legs and the noise got louder and louder. A look at the pulleys while running shows the motor shaft wobbling while motor is making a 'scrape, scrape, scrape' metal-on-metal noise...
I took the motor off clamped it to my bench, and attempted to make the shaft wobble or make noise. It feels smooth as can be... Put it back under power and the noise and wobble comes back.
Jet technical support guy said his went bad too, and had to replace it. The local motor rebuilder say it's cheaper to replace it than rebuild it.
It's still not cheap at $460 plus shipping.
Dang it. Wish I'd heard that noise before the warranty ran out.
Why's a motor going bad on a 6 year old machine anyway? It's not like I run the dog crap out of the thing running it couple times a month....