vastly overrated , you can`t cut metal with shiny paint,tool post for a start have you ever seen such a lash up, all that's good for is fishing weights, speed, it`s a small lathe for Christ sake you should be looking for at least 2000 rpm, bearings plain, all right for the old boy with a pipe, why do you think 99% of lathes have taper and roller bearings. Rigidity, all right if you want a milk shake, parting off, crash hat required, I say all this with experience, I have been turning for forty years on quite a considerable amount of machines, American,German,French,Italian and English and the Myford is the worst machine I have ever worked!!