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After reading multiple issues by people with the poor performance of brand new asian lathes, I was holding my breath as I turned on my new mini tonight.
Sure enough, I had that sickening feeling when watching.
I haven't even tried testing anything with the tooling yet, as the first thing I see is the first gear rather wobbly to the point I don't even want to have anything engaged. Even with just the regular eye, I can see that the whole shaft connected to the main sprocket is rather bent off center by a significant amount.
Considering it took me a long time to drive to an area to purchase my lathe, drive back, get it down my steep stairs and set up, etc... is not something I want to do all over again.
Maybe I'll get lucky and hopefully the company will swap out an item or two with me under warranty. Or with my luck, they'll want me to re-ship the whole thing, because taking apart anything could violate the warranty.... ahah!
I'll get around to maybe videoing the issue on my iPhone for others here to examine and give input. I just don't have the time for all of this at the moment...
Stay tuned for future information on my buyer's remorse. LOL
Sure enough, I had that sickening feeling when watching.
I haven't even tried testing anything with the tooling yet, as the first thing I see is the first gear rather wobbly to the point I don't even want to have anything engaged. Even with just the regular eye, I can see that the whole shaft connected to the main sprocket is rather bent off center by a significant amount.
Considering it took me a long time to drive to an area to purchase my lathe, drive back, get it down my steep stairs and set up, etc... is not something I want to do all over again.
Maybe I'll get lucky and hopefully the company will swap out an item or two with me under warranty. Or with my luck, they'll want me to re-ship the whole thing, because taking apart anything could violate the warranty.... ahah!
I'll get around to maybe videoing the issue on my iPhone for others here to examine and give input. I just don't have the time for all of this at the moment...
Stay tuned for future information on my buyer's remorse. LOL