Customer Reviews for VEVOR Mini Metal Lathe Bench Top 8.7"x29.5" 1100W for Turning 2250 RPM Metal Gear

This is my first lathe, so I was hesitant to purchase this. The lathe arrived in excellent condition and was packed in a custom wooden box which was well put together. the lathe had no marks or missing pieces and all was good. If I had to complain about something it would be having to remove all that cosmoline, otherwise perfect

It's a good lathe. But it needs setup, adjustment and care. After an hour or so of adjustments and cleanup you can do some basic lathe work with decent accuracy with everything that is included. If you are patient and mechanicaly inclined.There's some basic modifications you can make to get to a higher level of accuracy and usability if you search on the internet. There's mini lathe videos, tutorials and modification tips all over.

My name is C.D. Somers. I have been a machinist for 45 years. I am retired but still like to tinker. This mini lathe is a great little addition to my tools of the trade. Very tight and well built. I love that it has metal gears instead of plastic ones. Am looking forward to many years of use. Would definitely recommend to anyone. Thank you.

If you want to plug and play and accuracy is not your goal, this little machine will render positive results. The lathe has the potential of being tuned to much higher tolerances, but it will require you to do some work. YouTube is full of great videos tuning your machine. In my case, I disassembled it, measured and corrected the hastily assembled product. The least you should do is to clean and deburr many parts. Grease is sloppily applied (if at all). There’s overspray on the ways. The carriage and tails stock don’t run smoothly on the ways. I lapped the carriage with 240 grit sandpaper strip glued to the ways. A lot of elbow grease, but it’ll make everything operate so much better. I’m planning on replacing the bearings with high quality angular contact bearings that can stand both radial and axial loads.I can go on for hours about all the improvements that can be made to this lathe. I knew all this when buying this machine, and it has not discouraged me from purchasing it. It’s still a great price, and you get a lot of bang for your bucks. Buy it.

Good tool for making bushings and doing some light threading. Great for mobile service truck use.

Works as expected and no I didnt get the steady rest either but knew I might not. however shipping was very slow from NSD but amazon did check updates and call me about delivery.

nice lathe works real well on Aluminum and steel. this comes feom someone that replaced my larger older lathe

The expectation I had when I bought this was based on online research and reviews. It is a lathe that you can disassemble to the point where you can lift separate components and put wherever you want without heavy rigging. It will make serviceable cuts on aluminum, brass, and steel- AFTER YOU DO A LOT OF WORK ON IT. It will never be a lathe that you can take heavy cuts and do production work, it just doesn't have the size or mass and never will. Comparable size lathes of heavier construction and delivered quality are more expensive and less portable. You do get what you pay for and mass does count in machine tool rigidity.Many will correctly tell you this is essentially a "kit that arrives assembled". You will need to fully or almost fully disassemble, clean, file, stone, machine, replace some items, and alter some design features before it operates at its weight class capability. Some of these handworking operations are going to wear you out, an example is correcting the variation in thickness at the back of the ways. You can run it without this correction, but it will run better with it. At time of this review, I'm in the middle of that. You'll need the lathe running to make some of the parts to make it run better, expect to take some pieces apart more than once. There is a lot of help for these repairs and upgrades online, no really useful info is in the supplied manual. Everything I've read or seen in videos so far is true - mine came with all the expected original design limitations and final finish/assembly deficiencies.The seller was extremely good to work with. I reported the unexpected issue of lathe way pitting and non-functional lead screw gearing. The lathe pitting is not correctable, but won't affect operation - just looks nasty, the only positive is it will likely help hold oil on the ways just like the way scrapings on higher end machines but less pretty. I expect the gearing problem to be correctable by resetting the control positions and adding spac

great price very happy with it works good i was surprise

I experienced very good service overall, quick delivery and after sales service. Lathe comes in good protective packaging.