I watched a bunch of videos about this before purchasing and again before I heated it up for the first time because I'm a scaredy cat. Another reviewer mentioned how wiggly the top is, and it does like to do that, but it hasn't been an issue for the quality of my output. Obviously if you're doing a ton of shirts every day, you should opt for a higher end piece of equipment, but I'm not in that line of work. I need to set inks/dyes, occasionally HTV, and use fusible interfacing and for that, I'm thankful to find a heat press within my budget.As far as mounting is concerned, I don't have a large workshop available so I got a rolling printer stand that's 15.7"x23.6" and supports up to 200lbs (this VEVOR heat press is ~34lbs). https://amzn.to/3I2n0Jb