I have a Chinese mini-lathe from Harbor Fright, it is not

by Cherokee , Medina, Ohio, Monday, March 05, 2012, 15:45 (4646 days ago) @ Brian A

a great machine but I have made some things on it that did not require perfection, like seating nose punches and some other reloading stuff. You can't really mill with it. I am not a machinist so I can't evaluate it from that point of view. Were it not for the cost, I would have bought an Atlas. There is a web site devoted to the Chinese lathe http://www.mini-lathe.com/ if you want to explore it.