Help!!

[costafreak]

My Santinelli 9000 wheel made some noise for a minute, then quit spinning, and I smell a faint burnt smell. Assuming the motor fried. Anyone know if these can be purchased and installed by myself? Got a stack of jobs and unhappy glasses wearers, of course. thanks in advance for any advice anyone has...

[chaoticneutral]

this will not help, and I am not a tech but i've tinkered a bit

It has been my experience that when a santinelli works(regardless of the model), it is a workhorse of a machine. Unfortunatly, if the horse breaks a leg (in most cases) it is not worth the thousands of dollars it would take to get a tech out there and diagnose, fix and re calibrate the machine. It does sound like the motor, but it could be a belt. Have you taken it apart? Does the grinding wheel respond at all? The burning smell might just be a belt that needs to be replaced, but if its the motor or bearings........yikeserdoodle its gonna be expensive to fix.

[costafreak]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, it was the motor. I took it out and ordered another one. Ouch....

[optical24/7]

Be glad that you don't have an ME1200 with the drill motor die. You could pay for an "Elvis in Hawaii" vacation for the cost of that little motor!