I would just like to point out, don't let little things like what I have shown put you off from buying one of these lathes.
Almost all these far eastern lathes will have something on them that you don't like.
I love taking salesmen down a peg or two, and sometimes cause them real grief when I get it into my mind that they are trying to be too uppity.
I raised so many points to refuse to use the original machine that was delivered, that it actually got back to the manufacturers about a lot of points that I raised, and legal departments were involved. There are problems when it comes to something like removing the leadscrew guards, they are a second fit safety feature, and by certain country's laws, have to be fitted, but they stopped the machine operating over the specified range that was advertised in the sales literature. So now all the specs have been modified by Chester UK, the original machine suppliers, to take into account the issues I raised, and they also put up the price of the machine by 500 squid, supposedly to get quality control upped to a stage where someone like me couldn't complain.
It took me over 3 months to get my lathe replaced, not because of the supplier, they would have swapped it out straight away, but I wanted them to carry out certain mods to allow the then stated specs to be accessible to me before I would accept delivery. In fact they asked me to the factory to inspect the machine after they had finished playing with it, just to make sure it wouldn't be rejected a second time. It was give and take on both sides. They were breaking the law by removing certain bits on the machine just for me, and I backed down on a couple of very minor raised issues.
Both parties ended up happy, me more so, because they threw in a few sweeteners as well, a spare 3 jaw chuck and some extra tool holders for the QCTP, well over a couple of hundred squids worth.
It is not the correct thing to do, accept delivery of a machine, use it, then moan about it all over the net when it doesn't come up to your expectations. All the supplier is doing is moving a box, in from China, out to you. Normally, with a small machine, he won't know if there are any faults with it. Larger machines are usually given a quick once over. Ours are small machines.
You must give the supplier the chance to put it right in the first instance. If they refuse to do anything, then go public, that usually then gets the gears moving on their part very quickly.
I must say this. Every time I have had issues with Chester UK, they have bent over backwards to get me up and running as fast as possible, unlike a few other suppliers, who always give you the runaround. That is the reason I like dealing with this one supplier, they might be slightly more expensive on some things, but a lot of times not, but the backup just cannot be faulted.
John