Customer Reviews for VEVOR 7"X14" Mini Precision Wood Lathe 550W Metal Bench Lathe Turning Machine

The package arrived on time and in mint condition. Using to make items for the home.

I’m still adjusting it, but so far I’m happy. I didn’t bought it to get nothing specific done, so I’m ok making it the target of adjustments and improvements.

Overall the machine is alright for the price. It does have some backlash issues though, especially in the cross slide, and getting rid of it basically boils down to a balance between having either 1-15mil backlash or hulkish crank difficulty. It is okay once you have found the sweet spot but it takes some tweaking and is never really smooth over a full rotation. Really my biggest complaint is that they sent 12mm cutting tools, which are about 0.7mm short of center on a rod and there is no vertical adjustment. Clearly the compound was designed for 1/2\" cutting tools, which means I need to buy some of those, or otherwise buy an attachment with a vertical adjustment. Would be nice if they would exchange just the useless tools for some that fit the machine. Would give an additional star for that.

I love this little lathe. It is a benchtop lathe, so there is a definite limit to what can be accomplished with it. The passthrough of the chuck will limit the size of the material both in diameter and length, but it works really well on smaller projects (which is what it is designed for). I've done external and internal milling of material as well as some boring operations. Once I got everything aligned, which you will have to do upon initial setup, it has been great. I bought the set that included the metal gears. I have not installed the metal gears yet and have been using the installed plastic ones. When the operation gets a bit restricted, by depth or hardness of the material, I have found that the plastic gears will slip and grind. I plan on swapping in the metal gears soon. I have purchased other Vevor lathe tools to experiment with the various operations. I've turned mild steel round stock, tube steel, aluminum, hardened steel (very difficult with the plastic gears) and Delrin. I've found that it performs well on nearly everything that I've tried thus far. Their is a little movement in some of the parts and if you try to tighten it up too much, it restricts the movement of the tooling. Overall, I'm very happy with the purchase for my uses so far. I plan on installing the steel gears and my Vevor, 4 jaw chuck to play around with some other operations.

It needs upgraded tooling, tool post, and tail stock. The manual is worthless. If you know lathes, it's easy peezy. Turns forward and reverse. Treads forward and reverse. Gears are actually metal. Handles nurling pressure well, for 6061. I was a machinist long ago. Feels good to do it again after all these years.

This is a unboxing review I will write another after use Shipping super fast I ordered thus at 12:30 on wensday was delivered at 2:45 Thursday Out the box I'm very impressed everything is there and appears to be in working order I looked at manny mini lathes but for the price this one appear to take the win for price and what it's actually capable of I will thow some chips and write a performance review

Works as it should. Not bad for the price. Good for small projects but don’t bear down too hard as it will only handle so much pressure before stalling.

Exactly as described arrived early and works perfectly definitely was worth the purchase

Shipping was easy and free. Lathe only weighs about 105 lbs. so easy to pick up and move from truck to workbench. Owner's manual is barely useful. Hard to understand for beginners. Order at least two beginner-type mini-lathe books. Go online to look for YouTube videos. You will need to disassemble and lubricate much of the lathe. This is very difficult for beginners to do without good mini-lathe books. Most of the Chinese mini-lathes are nearly identical so the books are very useful. Better to buy at least two books since even the books can be confusing to beginners. Avoid the how-to-make-stuff books at first.

Tracking was always available. The crate was well made and easy to open. Some assembly was needed but very simple. The unit operated without any problems.