Vevor mini metal lathe review 7”x16”

In this video I give my review of the Vevor 7 x 16 mini lathe straight out of the box it is mostly unusable! #lathe #minilathe #machine #machining #metal #chinesetool

[excitedbox]

Wrong tool, wrong height, wrong speed, not sitting on a solid surface, not bolted down, no tailstock used, and feeding backwards. This was like watching someone drive stick shift without ever having seen a car before. The fact that everything was so loose on the lathe makes me think this thing was abused during shipping because that is not normal. Unless you had already ran it for a while not bolted down, vibrating everything loose.

[pulidoggy]

Got mine just yesterday, very same model (MX-S716)
First lathe experience in my life (I'm 66) although I like to fiddle with mechanics from time to time.
So I spent half a day checking tutorials on YT, learned the basic controls, parts names and understood the weak spots of the machine, then spent half a day more adjusting play, tightening (or loosening in some cases) nuts and bolts and finishing with a good coat of lithium grease on slides, screw, gears, rack and pinion until all travels were smooth enough with the least possible amount of play.
And then... time to make some shavings! Put a tool on, set the correct angle and height as seen in the tutorials, clamped on chuck a brass rod about the same size of that shown in the video, and.... got a mirror finish on first try, both shaft and face 😃
Then I stood for quite a while contemplating my debut feature, feeling its satisfying smoothness and pondering over the undeniable fact that you cannot expect to have such a complex tool working flawlessly right out of the box and that, especially when dealing with cheap chinese items, "no pain, no gain", but patience, curiosity and learning can prove rewarding in the end.

[jmbstudio]

Did you not see your insert shatter and loose it's tip on your first pass? Apparently not because you continued to try and cut....backwards direction ....with a 1/4 tool in a 1/2 holder. Scary bad. I would suggest watching a vid or two from Open Source Machine Tools lathe vids before turning your lathe on again. Seriously.

[A.Lifecraft]

Someone does a lathe review. Same person also does a test-run with about 6 times diameter stickout and the cutting tool improperly shimmed. Lathe might be trash but at least try to handle it correctly.

[dazaspc]

I have bought the exact same unit and had no problems. Out of the box!
If you are going to set a tool you do it either on center height or below never above unless you are boring an inside diameter then the opposite is the case. This is extremely important as you want the cutting edge to make contact with the job and not just rub on a lower part. Being on center also makes sure it will cut the diameter you have applied to the hand wheel.
I bought mine due to it having the largest bore through spindle that you can get in a mini lathe. It isn't a power house but with common sense it works just fine.
If the unit isnt stopping the stop switch is wired incorrectly, it needs to stay on usually to remain open circuit so just use the E stop button as it will hold down the contact and make it go open circuit. If you must just use the stop button additional relays are needed in the control.

[Michel-Uphoff]

I assume you are a first time user and have understood by now what you did wrong? (center height, speed, feed direction, tooling, tailstock support). Poor lathe, poor ears, poor knowledge, poor review..
Although the play is quite large, it matters less than you think. Every lathe has play, and you just have to take that into account, regardless of the amount. Anyway, mini lathes as cheap as these need a lot of TLC but mostly will do the job afterwards. Yours is probably abused during shipping.
Take some time to clean and adjust everything, and take more time to learn how to use a lathe.

[christiantrab]

When I learned machining basics, on of my teachers said, when you don´t know what you are doing, you need the best equipment, experienced guys can better handle less good equipment and make it work - this video clearly shows he was right.

[neowiza]

9:30-11:10 was genuinely hard to watch. Holy shit

[Steven]

I dont understand you guys complain about super cheap mini lathes. It has a reason why they are cheap. There are a lot of videos online saying that you have to improve them on your own. So did i. And i really have to say for that amount of money i’ve spent its a decent lathe.

[clintchapman]

I don't think your tool height is correct.

[timmontano]

I bought one of their 7x14 models from Amazon and it showed up at my place completely demolished. No exaggeration: it was totally busted up and missing all of the peripheral parts like gears, belts, tools, etc. The busted up wooden crate should have been a dead give-away that the contents of that crate were in bad shape, but they sent it anyway.

I contacted Amazon about it, and they sent someone out to pick it up and take it back. Three days later a brand-new replacement was delivered. The wooden crate of the replacement lathe looked a bit more pristine, so I had high hopes that the previous mini lathe was just an unfortunate mistake.

When I opened up the crate of the brand-new replacement mini lathe, I found that it too had sustained enough damage to render it non-functional without replacing several major components. It took a little over two weeks for Vevor to send out the replacement parts I needed to install before this "Brand-New" mini lathe would function.

I finally got all of the replacement parts installed and ready for its' maiden run. It looked and ran perfectly for about five minutes, then I started hearing some rattling coming from under the gear cover. That rattling turned into a loud clunking sound, so I quickly turned off the machine. I found that one of the little brass studs that hold the smaller 20-teeth gear had sheared off right at its' base.

I'm now waiting for the replacement brass stud to be shipped to me. In the meantime, I've been able to modify the studs on which the 20 and 25 teeth gears rotate on by fabricating some replacements out of tool steel. I've modified those studs so as to be able to use bearings in place of the metal-to-metal fit that caused the brass components to shear off at the slightest amount of heat and pressure.

The only reason I kept the second lathe they sent out was because they gave me a huge discount if I kept it. I got it running really well now. Right now I'm waiting for some extra gears to show up so I can cut some specific thread. This mini lathe is capable to cutting a fairly large range of imperial threads but the gears that came with it are not the correct ones to cut the thread pitches I'm needing.

You're right when you state, "Don't Buy" these Vevor lathes. They can be more trouble than they're worth.

[AdamMaszynotwor]

1- zanim kupiłeś mogłeś zobaczyć inne filmy o tanich chińskich tokarka, jak pracują jak ustawić i z czym się trzeba mierzyć podczas pracy na niej.
2- z tego co rozumiem wypowiadasz się o niej krytycznie ale jednocześnie nie przygotowałeś jej do pracy i używasz jej jak byś pracował na tokarce po raz pierwszy - uważam że uczciwie było by sprostować ten film po nabraniu wiedzy

Mam wiele filmów o przygotowaniu takich tokarek do pracy i jak na nich pracować podpatrz sobie ;)
Fakt to nie tokarki przemysłowe ale i ich cena jest adekwatna do jakości i możliwości

[huntz]

After watching many reviews I put off buying a mini for over 12mths but finally got 1. It has loose joints all over but I hadn't touched a lathe in over 30yrs so expect to learn a lot along the way. Saw many of the same issues as you but the VS not stopping is a concern, hopefully it's just a grub screw in the knob that needs tightening after you adjust to the 0 position.

[GeorgeWallace-ls]

you really have no idea what you are doing.

[rodgraff]

I bought this same lathe. Although it had a few issues, Vevor has been great with customer service. The only drawback is they were unable to supply some parts, which I had to purchase elsewhere. Vevor actually refunded me 300. For the inconvenience. They responded within 24 hours, every time I contacted them. You have to dial in these Chinese lathes, but after you go thru them, they are pretty good for the price.

[charlesbrewer]

The green button is the "turn it on -make the spindle turn" button.
The speed control knob is just that!
It makes it go slow or fast, it does NOT turn it on of off!
Your tool wont cut because, as you said, it is too high!
Any tool has to be shimmed to the center height if you want it to cut.
The play in the gears and feed knobs is NORMAL!
They can be adjusted but there will AWAYS be play!
You are the guy who would buy a guitar and then do a review saying it was crap because it was not tuned "out of the box"!
Lathes require setting up, just like guitars do.
Tool height and speed matter.
AND you can do pression work, even with "all that play" in the feed knobs!
Take the time to learn how to drive a lathe before you post a crappy review!

[geoffankrett]

I bought a second hand MX 600A that had everything done on it. I would say they are excellent value for the money. You have to remember that if you want perfection it comes at a very high price.

[buddynewman]

Have to agree with others, the tool has the kind of issues cheap machine tools tend to have but you don't really seem to know what you are doing.

[reamer]

Don't be discouraged. With a little bit of work done on it you'll have your own little gem of a lathe. And will come to love it.

[dustinbates]

Its not the lathe its the lack of knowledge of the user... watch some videos dude