I have a jet bench lathe and bench mill, had them both in daily commercial use for nearly 20 years, was never disappointed in the performance of either.

As several have noted, there's a fair amount of inspection and final fit and finish to be done if you expect good performance. I had to scrape some of the ways on my mill saddle, for instance, and the qc box on the lathe had to have a minor rebuild and re-bush within 6 months due to grit left in the oil passage.

If you take the time to go through and inspect (which I didn't on the qc box) the jet tools are dead on par with same class domestics, imo.


Tiger