Originally Posted by
Stustoys
Hi Phil,
Did you ring them?
I bought a similar lathe(one size down but with likely the same motor). A cap dropped dead(but not as dramatically as you're or Rays friends). I rang the company up and they had some story about a batch of bad motors, come get a new one. Then I replace the cap for $35(!?), so now I have the new motor on the lathe and the old one I'm using for my scraper hone(for which it wouldn't really need the cap for anyway so it might be removed)
Stuart