Visual Review 1 Year Vevor MX 400 Mini Lathe Walkaround Review BONUS Video, Would I do it all again? 

Great vid, good follow up to the last one. Very positive and spot on advice...just do it, it s a lot a fun. Getting rid of beer has never been a problem 😉 and a mill will look epic in that spot👌. There are ways to make the handwheels feel better, remake some parts, add the correct bearings for the load or add bearings because there are none(my lathe). A new banjo and support pins for the gears will make changes easier too. Its usually a compromise between level change gears for feed and threading and having variable speed. Most that have lever thread gears have lever speed gears too. You dont see many with no change gears and variable speed. Cross feed is a whole other question, so is spindle bore size, 38mm are most often on bigger lathes and can take a 5C collet setup in the spindle, very handy. Loving it mate👍👌🇦🇺

Do you know which lathe you would get if you were going to buy a second machine?

Hmmmm......that lathe is over $1000 Canadian on vevor,ca. It does have the nice metal gears and the big bore, but I wouldn't call it inexpensive. I'm sorry, but if i had to fiddle with it and even repair ii like you had to in the 1st year, then I wouldn't be recommending it to anyone. But to each their own. You obviously like your lathe. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

If you want to put a magnetic dial indicator on the tail stock , just super glue a little strip of sheet metal on top .

I've enjoyed coming along on your journey! 😁 I'll have had mine for a year in september, and is still going strong at the moment. It's proved to be a great usefull tool, I've been able to make everything I set out to do with it, with a bit of puzzlement and head scratching along the way! Last piece was another adapter for an air filter on a triumph motor, threaded at 24 tpi, I used a chunk of scaffolding pole to make it, - it's the only thing I had in the garage that was near enough the right dimensions to start with! 🤫 Next on my list is to try and knock up a verticutter cylinder for my scarifier - my lawn needs some attention! 😵‍💫

I tried to focus on this video but the meandering, rambling narrative made it very hard to pay attention to.

Use notebook paper instead of card stock. Notebook paper is ~0.004" thick and gives a good running clearance. Cigarette paper is ~0.001" thick and is a little too thin for this.. but great shim stock for other applications. The paper strip trick is really useful when setting the gear clearance on the banjo gears as you need to set the clearance on two gears at the same time. Using paper strips you can hold the gears in place with one hand and tighten the fixing bolt with the other. Another handy trick is to cut out a small square of aluminum sheet and glue it somewhere on the lathe with weatherstripping cement (contact cement). Now you have a place to write down the current gear train with a magic marker. Then you don't have to open the cover and try to read the tooth numbers on the gears. This is very helpful when you have set the gear train for an extra fine feed rate that isn't on the chart. Into the weeds here and may not apply to the lathe here, but to get the finest feed possible put the smallest gear you have to mesh with the spindle's tumbler gears (for lathes so equipped). Then engage that with the larger tooth count of the compound gear used to convert from inch to metric thread leads. Now put the largest gear you have on the lead screw and mesh it with the smaller of the metric/inch compound gear. On my lathe that reduces the feed by a third over the listed finest feed rate. Cheers from NC/USA