Although I have asked three other stores to verify pricing, I got a figure and a model number for the Jet 1014 lathe conversion to variable speed. When the other stores check in I will pass info along if it is at all different from what I got from the first store that got back to me.
Jet 1014 Variable Speed change over kit part number 708351VSR Price: $161.88. Not cheap but will make your old lathe the same as the new. This includes the same motor that is on the new Variable Speed model.
Bob Darrah West Linn, Oregon