First Chips On The Vevor Mini Lathe - Everyone Should Have One A Lathe !

Having a lathe is awesome. Bought my south bend 9a last December and grew out of it; now have a colchester master 2500. So useful.

That exact lathe is available with steel gears for a few dollars more. I have the same lathe that I ordered with steel gears. I also bought a set of extra gears to cut metric threads. I bought a four jaw chuck and a face plate for my lathe. I also upgraded my tool post holder to a quick change turret. I purchased quite a few extras for my Vevor lathe. While restoring my C3 Corvette, this lathe and my Wen milling machine are great to have in my shop.

Just the Channel name alone had me Subbed instantly , well done :)

One of these looks perfect for most of the little projects I work on.

The EU version comes with metal gears installed. A few years ago I bought a similar mini lathe from HBM in the Netherlands, the 180 Vario which they still sell.

Great video, I have a great like for Vevor, and have several great deals from them. Check your angle setting on the compound, its travel should be just a bit inside parallel of the angle of the cutting edge of the threading tool , making one cutting edge doing the bulk of the work. Enjoyed and subbed, cheers!

I added a srandard and metric threading dial indicator to my lathe and use multiple magnetic base indicators to stop at dead zero every time.

I have one of these lathes in fact the same one and have had it for over two years now it gets a lot of work and I am still running plastic gears and never had a problem, I do how ever have a full set of metal just incase but for now I am just going to keep running the plastic gears.

This "Turned" out great! ;) Hah. My question, and I don't know if you'd be able to even explain this in any future video, is possibly discussing the limitations of this one. I know when I first looked at it, 7x14" that's substantial! But after you quickly showing a few things that get in the way of that 7x14", it's really not nearly that for actual workable space. I'm excited to see the next couple videos of the modifications to the drive selector, and anything else you get into! Very cool.

Very cool! Thanks Joel

Hi, I think you if check carefully you will find that you have set the compound slide angle wrong, it looks closer to 60 degrees than 30 . Happy turning..

I believe you have a British metric piece to replace. I have run across them a bunch of times over45 years of machining. Just real old things used them. Most defeinatlt you woll need a live center you can make with it and I am glad you have the metal gears on order. Fun post so I sub'd you and rang yer bell as well.I pour silver. Stop by for a peek. I try and fave some fun in the process. I am a BC fella from Vanderhoof. Just west of Prince Geord in the middle of the povince , Where are you ? If this is throwing a good thread I am thinking you have a good tight lathe there. A good test for any lathe. Take care eh

Great tutorial! Thanks!

This lathe can easily take off 3-5mm of steel at once if rebuilt and calibrated. There are dedicated channels about this lathe. I have similar. Just didnt have time to work on it atm, later

Amazing work ❤

I had low expectations....you didn't disappoint !

I started out with a mini lathe many years ago, then I slowly graduated from that to a 9x19 and then a full-sized gunsmithing lathe. (same with the mini mill. I went to a CNCmill) Anyway, I sold my full sized machines thinking I'd never need them again after retiring from the work force. Boy was I wrong. Now I'm thinking of buying another Mini Lathe and I was wondering. On my larger lathes they had a dial indicator that would spin around on a circular gauge which indicated the exact time in which to engage the half-nut when cutting threads. I don't see any kind of dial on these Vevor mini lathes that would indicate when to engage the half-nut when cutting threads. How does one time the engagement of the half-nut without these indicator dials in place?

Whilst seller was quick to ask for Feedback on my purchase, not providing a cutting tool meant a delay to trying it out. The Spindle Bore is only 21mm - would have been better at 26mm so 1" or 25mm std material could be used. The tailstock lock lever is really annoying interfering with back guard. I guess as a budget entry machine it is a good learning tool preparing you for your next purchase and what to look out for. Atleast the E-stop is up front where some larger machines I've seen you have to reach over the chuck to hit the stop - last thing you want to do is reach further into a machine area in an E-stop condition.

I got one from princess auto. Are the upgrades the same? I noticed there is no hi/low speed manual shift for head stock

I recently received a mini lathe from vevor. The box was all smashed up and multiple parts damaged. I've had to make several upgrades and have more to do. I didn't get much from them regarding the damaged parts. I've had to repair several things. The manual doesn't have any info.