Av8tor,

I have the 7X14 lathe from Micromark. I think it is much better than the one a friend has from Harbor Freight. Reason being if you need parts Micromark has them and Harbor Freight is not real good for parts. Also, I buy a lot of tooling from Little Machine Shop, they have all replacement parts as well as tooling identical to Micromarks. When you get into this you will spend more than you think for all the tooling and other assessories. But if you are like me you have to have all this neat stuff. I am ordering the Micromark milling machine also. There goes another grand.