My 14" Jet bandsaw motor was flooded by Hurricane Harvey

[lowell holmes]

I am putting my shop back in service after Hurricane Harvey. I was cleaning my 14" Jet Bandsaw
when I discovered that the motor is locked up. Do any of you have experience in purchasing new
bandsaw motors? I'm thinking that I might just go to a motor supplier and buy a replacement motor.
I have done that before. Where should I look for a replacement motor?

[Bill Dufour]

I would replace the bearings and clean the starting switch. Wash it out with clean water. Actually the bearing theoretically should be fine if they are sealed. Do not use a pressure washer just soap and rags to move the dirt
Did the switch gear go under as well? How about your outlets?
Bill D

[Bill Dufour]

I prefer tefc motors in a dusty wood shop. You need a metric shaft motor I assume. For my Jet Mill/drill I used an English dimension shaft motor and reamed the pulley to fit. No keyway was used. It may be easier and cheaper to get a used motor and buy a pulley to fit.
Consider getting 3phase and vfd to give variable speed. they make vfd's with 120 volt single phase input up to one horsepower output.
Bil lD.

[lowell holmes]

I got the saw to run. I am happily flabergasted. It was locked, but after I bumped it, it ran.
Sometimes the woodworking spirit looks after us

[Richard Hash]

Lowell, I also got flooded by Harvey (20 miles south of Houston), and had a similar experience with an old Emglo twin-hotdog compressor that went totally under. It actually (briefly) started (spewing oil everywhere), so I spent a whole afternoon cleaning it up, replacing the oil, etc. Then it wouldn't kick on at all. I had to spin it up by hand (guessing the shaft flash-rusted) and it's been running ever since - thank God since I've been using the heck out of it to re-install baseboard!

[lowell holmes]

Richard, we are in Dickinson. I'm sure the conditions were not much different. We were fortunate in that we had FEMA insurance and
a son who is a contractor. Guess who he took care of first.

[Bruce Wrenn]

You could have had a bridge of rust between rotor and stator. Wouldn't be the first, nor last to have one. Seriously, I would look at replacing both bearings. Most likely uses 6203's. The sealed ones are right at two bucks each thru Fastenal

[lowell holmes]

Thanks for the advice Bruce. This is the value of this forum where information is available.