Quote Originally Posted by flyfr8rs View Post
One important motor consideration I forgot to mention - it really needs to be a TEFC (Totally Enclosed Fan Cooled) motor....as you can clearly see in the pics, it gets dusty down there and you don't want that inside the motor housing!

John
At one time I had a table top band saw and couldn't believe the motor was open. I had to clean the motor out more than once because it was getting packed.