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Absolutely not. It's a toy looking one piece affair. The lathe came with an almost broken aluminum fixed steady that I finally managed to break, and the replacements on ebay cost about half of what I paid for the whole set. Made one out of PETG on my chinese prusa knockoff 3d printer, and it...

Ok Tested the chucks. The 3 jaw is ok. The 4 jaw is pretty bad. The drill chuck looks like its fucking done. Epic runout, and the lathe came with both a milling head (with a table and fine down adjustment and all), no collets, and a bunch of rusty mill bits in a ziplock bag. Will test it...

Sorta kinda like that, with tightly fitting fixed centres and a thin feeler gauge between them to check slant. Spinning the spindle had very little (but still slightly noticeable) effect on it. Tried it with ram extended to various degree so the tailstock would sit on different points on the...

It's a mk3 with conventional cast bed. I suppose it should be possible to work out what exactly is wrong there by turning a couple of cylindrical workpieces of different length between centers, then carefully measuring them and tabulating the results?

Hi, I have an old beat up looking Unimat 3 that I picked up cheap a few years ago. The tailstock is not adjustable and sits slightly low. Hasn't been a problem for most part, but now I need to make some small hollow shafts with 3-4 mm center holes through them. The drill bits when mounted in...