Hi everyone

I’ve just took a delivery of a new littlemachineshop hitorque mini lathe 5200 and taking a look at it.

It has quite a bit if a runout and i took a side gear box cover off and noticed a pretty bad wobble of the rear part of the spindle. Here is the video. The gear is wobbling pretty noticeably. This does not seem to help with the runout I guess. Also there is noticeable vibration on certain RPMs.

I am wondering if it is just an unlucky one that I have, or are all of the chinese mini lathe spindles like that?

Any suggestions on what to do with it are welcome.


https://youtu.be/1QYtfi224fY