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I really hope I will not offend Precision Matthews or anyone really by asking this question here.
I am quite interested in buying my first mill (never machined before) and PM-25MV seams to come up a fair bit in my searches as one of the best in that price range. I consider buying it, but I am based in UK. Now, I learnt that this these mills and lathes are not really manufactured by brand names, but are imported and rebranded from China. Model PM-25MV apparently it is based on (cloned?) another machine of Optimum. And there are many manufacturers of these clones in China, and some of them are good, some of them are not.
So does anybody know who is the original manufacturer of PM-25MV? What I am trying to do is to identify which machines available in UK market are the same as PM-25MV. Alternatively, I would like to know how to distinguish a good clone form bad.
As a side note, I would like to express my frustration. I find rebranding of these machines really confusing. For someone like me, who is new to hobby it is very difficult to follow what machine is what. I don't blame anybody, I know that Chinese suppliers are giving this option to put your own brand name and colour on to ordered machines...
I am quite interested in buying my first mill (never machined before) and PM-25MV seams to come up a fair bit in my searches as one of the best in that price range. I consider buying it, but I am based in UK. Now, I learnt that this these mills and lathes are not really manufactured by brand names, but are imported and rebranded from China. Model PM-25MV apparently it is based on (cloned?) another machine of Optimum. And there are many manufacturers of these clones in China, and some of them are good, some of them are not.
So does anybody know who is the original manufacturer of PM-25MV? What I am trying to do is to identify which machines available in UK market are the same as PM-25MV. Alternatively, I would like to know how to distinguish a good clone form bad.
As a side note, I would like to express my frustration. I find rebranding of these machines really confusing. For someone like me, who is new to hobby it is very difficult to follow what machine is what. I don't blame anybody, I know that Chinese suppliers are giving this option to put your own brand name and colour on to ordered machines...