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The most important areas to pay attention to on these benchtop mills of any brand, the real deal breakers for me are is the table flat and are the ways ground straight and true. These machines are notorious for crap ways with tight and loose spots.
If you think these kinds of things can't happen on more expensive machines...my brother and his company are going round and round with Mori Sieki on a brand new $200,000 CNC lathe, the Y axis is rusting and pitting badly.
Agreed coolidge. After cleanup and reassembly one of the first things I checked was the table. I was pleasantly surprised to say the least (VERY flat). And I have no bind/loose on the ways. When I got my 1340GT (Taiwan) there were some niggling things I had to address, so even on a much more expensive machine there were still some issues.
I probably will never own/buy a machine that doesn't need something fixed/adjusted/cleaned.