Customer Reviews for 180x300mm 400W Precision Mini Metal Lathe Variable Speed 2250RPM

Still moving into new home shop, but looks great, came weeks faster than expected. Much bigger than HF 10" version, costs less than even with 20% off coupon. It has cam tailstock rather than needing a wrench to adjust. Still have to fully unpack and get going.

Produxt is well made. It is very quickly assembled. It requires you to go through the whole lathe to make sure it is adjusted properly and all nuts and bolts are tight

It is up and running good. I have ordered parts for it to make it do what I want. I ordered this lathe because of the bed was 14" long. Thankyou for the way everything went.

With a few hours of cleaning, and some minor upgrades, I now have a very accurate professional machine. The stickers are a little crooked and It came covered in oil, but that is a good thing. That way it couldn't rust. The one in the picture looks like it has some loose parts that need tightened. I took a chance and for once I came out on top.

The tailstock was loose and banging around in the crate when the shipping container arrived. It appeared to not have been installed tightly enough and came unbolted from the ways. The loose heavy tailstock did some damage to the sheet metal tray, and the sheet metal rear chip guard, bent them up quite a bit.The advertisement claims that the lathe has the ability to cut both metric and Imperial threads. This is not true given the gears that ship with the lathe. The lead screw is metric and has a thread pitch of 1.5mm. The lathe will cut a full range of metric thread sizes.In order to be able to cut Imperial thread sizes additional gears need to be acquired.Needed gears: 55 tooth, 57 tooth, 65 tooth.LittleMachineshop.com has a full metal gear set that includes these for about $150.Plastic versions of these gears can be purchased individually on ebay. Cost each which includes shipping is around $20 each.These lathes have been a nightmare for a lot of people, however the trueness of this particular lathe is acceptable. I agree with the recommendation by many to tear the lathe down and build it back up checking for tension on fasteners, and proper alignments as well as lubrication while putting it back together. They appear to be quickly assembled at the factory, and the tolerances need to be verified.

Product as described, works fine, upgraded to steel quick change post. Good enough to learn and upgrade slowly. I like that this was cheaper than HF. But longer.

It's a mini lathe! Seems to work fine. Didn't come with any tooling. Drive motor needed to be properly positioned prior to starting. It was very crooked. Other than that a Chinese mini lathe is better than no lathe!

For the money great deal, used to cut 1" axle shaft would buy again

My lathe was dropped by UPS 4 times before delivery, breaking the plywood crate in 3 places and breaking the end off the cross slide screw. There is enough variation in the manufacture that I had to get a replacement from China. It arrived yesterday and works great.All gears are metal except the change gears which are nylon. This model doesn't have the dual spindle speed range, so simpler construction.

Got here quick, haven't had time to really test it out. It runs fine so far. Seems to be pretty well set up correct, not much slop as I expected.