[Cory]

I've found virtually all of the Chinese copies of Bridgeports to be perfectly fine. Even JET, which I overall hate. we have a JET JTM-1 (or something like that) and it works perfectly fine after more than 10 years. No issues with it at all. However it is the pulley head and not the variable head, so there's a lot less to break there.

It's interesting that this is the case, because most all of those same companies' cheap lathes are total garbage.