People seem to think it's a small lathe meaning you can make small parts. I often use the biggest lathe at work for the smallest parts because it provides greater rigidity, stability, and control. You get none of that in these small import lathes unless you pay for it. PM seems to be the only real option for import benchtop lathes that I've found.
FWIW, if you live in the US just find a south bend 9 in lathe and throw it in the back of a uhual truck, you can find them for the same price as these toy lathes.
I guess it ultimately boils down to what you want to do.
>Do you want a project lathe to finish, that still might be garbage?
OR
>Do you want to use a lathe to make parts?
>>2950844
>They are basically the same
>Except they are completely different
wat
>>2950846
The vevor one, grey m100 is 8.7" x 29.5" for $1500 USD.
The orange one isn't even worth mentioning imo.
The lowest cost PM is 10"x22" and is similar size to the vevor but significantly different.
>But Jet, Grizzly, and Enco and a few others are good options for those sizes as well.
A lot of them have the same problems. They still need some work unless you're getting a non-bench lathe. The PM is the only one I've ever seen that just works with promised accuracy out of the box. I've went down this route 4 times with bench lathes for work, a cheap Chinese lathe, a cheap Taiwan lathe, a Grizzly, and a Sherline. I spent more money on each lathe than the cost of a fully kitted PM 10"x22" + tooling to have comparable machines. Yes I was able to sell the "upgraded" machines and get most of the shops money back but trust me buying the PM 10"x22" was worth every penny. If I could go back I'd have bought the PM and never messed with the others. If you could get the same dimensional accuracy as the PM with medium or minimal effort, I would argue to get the cheap options every time. It's just not worth it for how much work is required.
