I'm not a machinist but have been in and around industrial machine shops for 50 years and my dad was/is as good as they ever made. He tried but not much rubbed off on me (He'll be ashamed of me when he finds out I drug this home.) Found a deal on a year old MX 8-14 originally purchased on ebay. All metal change gears, 600W brush less motor with only a 3 jaw chuck and minimal tooling. Runs quiet through the speed range when running the lead screw forward- pretty noisey when reversing it. For what I need it will be better than nothing. Biggest problems for me with it is I cant find a manual that is even close and although the tail stock seems reasonably stable and the quill is smooth I cant get it to center drill. Seems like the bed torques or something and even after facing the stock, the center drill wanders. I haven't put much pressure on it and haven't broken a center drill yet but I also have not got a center drilled yet. I have a couple of machined centers I can chuck in the lathe chuck and my drill chuck and they seem to be pretty close although I think the drill chuck may not be very accurate. I do have a new Jacobs chuck and short taper for it and a dead center for the tail stock ordered from LMS. By the way if anyone is considering one of these (I think it is very similar to the Vevor?? on Amazon) LMS does not have parts for them yet. If anyone has a manual for their Vevor I'd pay to have it copied. Any thoughts on the center drill failure? Thanks