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Originally Posted by Cory
That lathe is a piece of junk. You can make good parts with it but it is not a heavy duty machine. I would hate to pay $2k+ for it. We have one in our trailer and while it may have started out ok for small work and light cuts it is absolutely terrible now.
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I can second this and this will be the case with and mass manufactured Chinese lathe or mill. You will spend more time maintaining the thing than you will making parts, substantially more time if you want accurate parts.
I would never pay 2k for a lathe like that, maybe 1k all in with tooling if I needed a starter lathe and had no patience.