This lathe does everything I need it to do. Huge upgrade from me old lathe, and easier to use. TSC staff was terrific with all the details ordering the lathe and loading the lathe on my trailer. The most surprising thing is the manual is very detailed making setup and use easy. TSC has everything needed to get up and running, like the oils needed for the gear boxes, available on their shelfs. This was a wise purchase from TSC.

I've owned this lathe for the past 6. It is mainly used for chambering rifle barrels, along with machining parts for local farmers when they break stuff on their equipment. Until the last 2 years, this was my part-time job. After retirement from my full-time career, I went full time in my shop. The lathe serves me nicely. I have made a few mods here and there, such as adding a long narrow basket on the back splash shield to hold tool holders and cutting fuild, a mag strip to hold commonly used allen wrenches and made a longer chuck key. I moved the light to the back shield, as well. The only changes I made to the machine was installed a MultiFix tool post and added a DRO to the tailstock quill. Both just make my job easier. I also aligned the spider bolts to be inline with the jaws of the 4 jaw chuck. This just makes dialing in barrels easier. My only complaint is the quality of paint on the cast parts. It has started to flake around the edges and where there are nicks in the paint from chips hitting. But, it is a tool and you'll have that. That is the only reason for 4 stars vs 5. But other than that, I really like the lathe. $ for $, I don't think you can go wrong.

I've owned this lathe for several years now and have done a lot of very good work with it. A test indicator doesn't even quiver when run in the spindle bore. The 3 jaw that came with the lathe only has about .002 of total run out which really surprised me. I barrel and chamber a lot of rifles and couldn't be happier with the way the lathe performs.

Originally bought some time ago and then had an illness before started to use regularly. It was delivered with a metric gear in the gearbox that was supposed to be an Imperial gear. They sent me the gear but i had to fix it myself. Probably they would have if I had found it out originally. I knew it wasn't threading right from the day I got it but, like I said, had a lengthy illness. There were a number of other issues. The places that had oil in them all also had a lot dirt in them. Poor factory cleanliness, I guess. A number of other less significant problems. Then spindle motor bearings went out. Then start capacitor went out, then run capacitor, then eventually overall power and ability to get going depite new capacitors meant I had to replace the motor. Gearbox housing is porous and leaks continually. That all sounds bad but, for the amount of work I have done with this lathe with continued service and accuracy are well worth it. Just can't give it 5 stars, needed a US made spindle motor to achieve that performance and reliability and better paint inside gearbox housing.