Over a Year Later: A Full G0765 7x14 Mini Lathe Review!

hi I'm Jeff and I've been talking about doing a review for this lathe for a little while now so here it is this is the Grizzly G 0 7 6 5 7 by 14 million lathe and it actually comes in here to the states under another number of different names and importers I'd like to talk to you about this one and why I chose not just a 7 by 14 lathe but also why I chose the Grizzly and I'd like to kind of go for some of the things I like about it and then some of the things I don't like about it and then I'd like to go into what I've done with this and how I've used it over the past year now I will say this is going to be a long one I want to address a lot of the questions and comments that I get about this lathe I'm no particular aficionado of mini lathes I don't have a specific desire for small machines or things of that nature it just happens to be the one that fit my needs now the seven by fourteen lathes as you can see they're not large and that's kind of the biggest thing about them both you know pro and con that's that's really one of the major factors about this length is that it's not very large 7-inch swings so that means three and a half inches from the center of the bore here to the the bed the ways and that 14 inches Center to Center that means if I was to back the tailstock all the way out and then put a Center here in the headstock there'd be 14 inches so practically speaking with a chuck and if you were to have a drill and tailstock and yet cetera et cetera you know you're probably looking at much more diminished dimensions than the seven by fourteen but that does give you an idea for the approximate size of the lathe now this is not a heavy lathe the shipping weight is just over a hundred pounds the actual machine weight is yeah maybe maybe just under a hundred pounds as you can see it doesn't take much reading moving around and one of the things that I've wanted to do is actually bolted down to the table so why would I get such a little lathe well when I was going to purchase this last year I wanted to lay that could do a number of operations that let's face it aren't offered by some of the larger lathes the next size up from this in the kind of the general import category the 9 by 20 or even 10 by 22 like the Grizzly g0 6:02 which admittedly is a much more sturdy and rigid lathe but it there's a few things that doesn't offer such as the variable speed which on the Grizzly model has a digital readout for the spindle speed which is very handy as well as a reversible lead screw for threading left-handed threads and after some consideration I really decided at the time that those as well as the ease of transport of this lathe the fact that I currently live in a rental and moving in the future I knew was an inevitability and I didn't want things that would be difficult for that process not knowing exactly when that would be so all those compounded that's why I decided for the seven-inch lathe there's also a resounding amount of information and support for these that you can find all over the internet Frank who's of mini lathe comm has a really good amount of info about these lays they're all made by the sikh company that's i believe s ieg and they're imported under different names including Sieg itself but this is also the same basic one is sold by Harbor Freight as well as little machine shop and micro mark and I believe Cummins has a brand of this as well as big dog machine which has a very similar to this model one of the things I like about the Grizzly is that it has one of the largest motors of these seven axe lathes that is a I believe that they listed as a 650 watt motor and it said listed as 3/4 of a horsepower it's a variable speed DC motor so it can be upgraded to if you were to say get a treadmill motor or something of that nature but it's got a lot of power to be perfectly honest especially when it's completely up to speed then it's got a really immense amount of torque this lathe is really not lacking as far as actual power at the spindle goes with with the motor the digital readout shows motor speed which is infinitely variable between ultimately 0 and 2,000 rpm and you have two speed ranges selected by this transmission in the rear one of the other reasons I chose the Grizzly was that this tail stock is they call it I believe their big boy tail stock and it's actually way beefier than any of the others in this range any of the other seven by tail stocks and it actually has a proper cam action tail stock law which is very convenient makes for much faster action when moving the tail stock in for various operations the lathe also comes with a bunch of the tools and accessories you're going to need including things like this face plate here believe that five or maybe six inches tools Allen wrenches as well as box end wrenches there's a bigger one over in my toolbox it does include that the change gears you'll need different jaws for the chuck steady rest a couple of dead centers I think that's it it might come off more but but a lot of good handy stuff that can get you running right away I think it's worthy of note that the steady rest here is actually one of the big things that sold me on this lathe because this allows you to work at the end of very large items that won't fit through the actual spindle bore of the lathe so that's a that's a handy thing to have and I think to buy it separately can be almost a hundred dollars so basically the reason I went with this lathe is because for the price which last I checked on grizzly which is the same as I paid about a year ago is about $600 for this laid with the accessories pictured and the upgraded motor and the bigger tail stock as well as the digital readout for the speed control all those together in you know it's the the Harbor Freight version of this which lacks a lot of those features is only a hundred or two less and I believe the sieg is you are to buy it from a supplier it's about the same price and it comes with a lot less features the Big Dawg machine and the micro mark as well as the one that little machine shop all sell are pretty comparative to this one although as far as I recall they're all a little bit actually more expensive so that's that I'm not not necessarily saying one's better than the other here because there's a lot of nuance there as far as which one you end up going with you could get a Harbor Freight and if you're comfortable with what it comes with and it's set up then you obviously are you know better off as far as price goes if that's you're comfortable with or if you'd like a slightly better machine or at least a comparative machine you're willing to really pay for that peace of mind you would go with one of the slightly more expensive ones I found the Grizzly to be a nice balance of features accessories and price point so given that in mind why I chose this late in the first place what do I like about this leg whether the pros well the price is obviously a big big consideration this was my this is very much a beginners machine in my opinion you know a very much a first time machine or or somebody who doesn't want isn't looking to do machine full-time necessarily or even heavy-duty but just to have a machine around to kind of play with occasionally or light duty stuff this is fantastic for that I got it I got this because it fit in my budget at the time I really wanted to start the learning process for machining price is a big thing especially if you're looking at it starting into learning machining and you've got to consider tooling costs and and measuring and indicating equipment work holding to a holding all the things that go into machining is not just the price of this guy but it's everything else that you need to buy and that you know that was a major consideration in my budget but it is really good to start off on it offers a lot of ability as far as actually getting into machining and learning the processes so that that certainly is a very valid consideration and one that you know I think that makes this one enticing for for a learner or beginner or somebody who wants to just have a little bit of metal turning capabilities in their shop it's also easy to work with because it is lighter weight and and to clarify that I mean it's you do not need multiple people or special moving equipment just to get this lathe into place I was able to bring this home in my SUV and truthfully I could transport this around in my little Honda Civic if weighs a hundred pounds so it doesn't it and it's not huge it's about three feet long by oh it probably takes up a foot front to back it can be very easy for somebody who does not have a lot of shop space or even a permanent shop to get into their shop to be able to do an amazing amount of metal turning capacity now some of the questions I get about this lathe is like what will it cut or how accurate is it etc etc and to be perfectly honest I have not cut an extreme variety of materials on this lathe but you can watch the videos you can yummy you can verify this with what I show you in my videos I've cut 4140 steel that's a medium alloy hardenable steel I've cut a one tool steel in this aka drill rod I've done a lot of work on that with this lathe and no issue they're aluminum obviously this lathe really loves aluminum and brass they both machine beautifully in lathes such as this I've also done stainless steel I've done 300 series stainless steel which admittedly is a huge pain in the butt to work with but this lathe that it's not by no fault of this machine as well as a good amount of 17:4 stainless steel and that is a harder stainless steel but it does machine nicely in this lathe handled it very well so that they make cuts on material but what else will it do well I mean this this lathe as you've seen in a number of my videos I can cut threads on this and I really haven't had a major problem in doing that this has been a really fantastic lathe for learning the single-point threading process on it does have a thread dial here on the carriage it will do a wide wide variety of threads and even even greater than the ones listed in the literature and on the charts on the machine you can actually go to little machine shop comm and they have a calculator for basically any sort of thread pitch you'd like to cut they'll tell you which change gears to put in so it'll do that it'll cut in reverse or forward on the lead screw as far as either power feed or cutting threads right or left and you know we obviously have a compound here as well as a cross feed and so you can cut threads you can make angled cuts you can do internal boring you can do external turning basically this little lathe will do at a smaller scale most of the operations that a much larger larger lathe can do one of the things I think that it's lacking the larger lathe can do is the power cross feed and honestly I just I don't think they had enough room in the actual carriage itself to to make that happen and that's that's not been a huge noticeable issue with this so so those are what I really like about the lathes and why I chose it now let's get into the real juicy stuff and the things I really dislike about the lathe and when I consider actual cons or things actually against this lathe now we'll get to the actual size and rigidity in a minute but one of the things I'm really kind of annoyed about with this late is the compound rest and the way that it's oriented here as you can see there's a dial for setting the angle of the compound rest but it only goes into 45 degrees in either direction of being otherwise parallel with the bed that's kind of an annoyance because for say threading which is a huge thing I really that's the biggest use of the compound in my opinion you need to use an alternative measuring method for setting the angle of the compound which I just I find that a little irritating that there's not I can't just point my compound to 29 and a half degrees or whichever just by looking at this dial and this is just a very inexpensive chrome coated plastic bolt on dial here that I believe another youtuber by the name of Franco pointed out that the Harbor Freight version is actually better so that's a little irritating the second thing I don't like about the compound is that the fact that to adjust it we have to back it all the way off and there are two bolts that hold it in place underneath the actual ways and you see I have to adjust it almost all the way off before the bolts are revealed and I have to undo these two bolts to adjust the angle of the compound and that's truthfully I find a little irritating I understand it with a small lathe there's not a lot of room to put bolts outside of this but I really feel like that could have been engineered better so that I didn't have to back the compound all the way off to adjust the angle as far as a huge issue goes I don't find it I mean it's not a day ender but it's really really really irritating the last thing I do not like about the compound is the backlash adjustment and the way that the lead screw of the compound interacts with the the nut the base of the slide the screw is is basically attached to this dial and this dial is more or less your backlash adjustment so you can unwittingly if you adjust this dial and get a lot of backlash play in your compound now the actual backlash I've got pretty nicely adjusted at the moment and it was no small task to get it there there can also be an issue where if it's a little tiny bit off axis it will bind with this nut in here and these aren't huge complaints it's not like I said not de Enders but they're things that are kind of at the top of my list for things that irritate me about this lave now that's for the change gears of this lathe you you do need to change these gears out this one this one this one and this one can all be changed to move the lead screw at different rates obviously for threading and as it currently is set in it for the power feed now this this does get a little irritating is a little slow but it's one of the things about this lathe you kind of know going into it because that's just how it is it does not have a gearbox or transmission levers to flip to change these a little bit more streamlined that's that's kind of a big deal however the biggest annoyance is about changing the gears out are these two adjustments right here in this plate called the banjo this adjusts the meshing of all these gears and how they interact with this one which then interacts with our spindle here these two need to be adjusted most of the time when you put different sizes of gears on there for obvious reasons the size of this lathe makes that relatively difficult to do it's not a lot of fun this nut can be adjusted rather easily so it's nice when I only have to adjust it this one however requires getting a wrench in behind here to adjust the nut to move it back and forth it's a huge pen the ass and what I ended up doing was actually just loosening the screws on the motor cover so I can come in a lot easier that's made it a lot faster to change gears and so that means that now I have to risk this getting loose and ships touching my motor now one of the features that I really enjoy about this lathe is also one of its downfalls and that's the variable speed DC motor the problem is with this is that it will not give you torque at low rpms I can have it at a proper threading rate of say about 150 to 300 rpms but it does not have the torque to take those heavy threading cuts sometimes so that's a kind of a big issue with this is that with a DC variable speed motor my understanding is that you just lose a lot of that torque on the low end and that's a very real issue for for things such as threading and parting and other instances where you really want that low end speed but you really need the torque that is associated with it so a bit a bit of a letdown to be perfectly honest I would almost appreciate either a gearing ratio for the motor or even just a belt drive setup to grant me that torque at the low end because the motor is not without power the motor is very beefy when when I'm at speed it will make it will make serious cuts and really move metal but I think you know there's times when because of whatever the test you're doing you do not want or need that speed but you still need that motors power and with the variable DC Drive in this and the motor it's supplied with and just the way that it's set up you so that's that's actually one of the bigger things I do not care for with this lathe is that I think you could do a lot more if it either had a provision for lower torque ratios on the motor or a different motor that didn't lose torque at its low end this lever right here is what engages the lead screw and if you pull it up and put it in the notch here that moves the glede screw forward and then it has a notch all the way at the bottom to put it in reverse now the one thing I do not like about this lever is that it has a couple of detents here in the pot metal that will lose this lever doesn't have enough spring tension to stay in there if for some reason the torque of the lead screw puts enough puts in a force on it I've had that happen during threading procedures and it you have to completely reindex reach ace your threads it kind of completely screws your screws your pooch on your threads if it doesn't completely destroy the park so that's a real big annoyance usually what I end up doing when threading is putting a steel block or something underneath here and I it's it's just my way of conquering the problem I've tried tightening the tension on this handle here that doesn't seem to help tightening the tension on this nut doesn't seem to help I just put a block here that physically keep it from moving now something you may not be noticing in this video that I usually don't show in my other videos is that I actually keep this back cover off the lathe most of the time because I'm usually doing processes where I want to have power feed and threading so having to screw through on and unscrew this cover usually just kind of slows me down and let's face it to be perfectly honest out of laziness I just keep this aside and this area is rarely affected by chips it's also not something that I keep my hands near when the lave is running although don't be mistaken it's very very unsafe to leave these exposed so just know that but I really do wish that instead of the two screws that hold this on which are starting to strip to be perfectly honest I wish this had more of a hinge type mechanism door something to just make it a little bit easier to maybe a vertical hinge like that that'd be a good mod right that works but something to make it a little bit easier a little bit more quick access and and less tedious in in an operation that's already going to slow you down anyway now let's go ahead and talk about kind of the elephant in the room here as far as cons go and that is the machines weight size and rigidity now this is something that I kind of want to touch delicately and clinically because let's face it the fact about the machine is that we know it is only so big weighs so much and that's that's what it is with a machine so to even consider that a con in the first place is to me you know almost questionable because it's like saying I ordered ice water and it's it's too cold right but it is a heavy consideration in this machine and one that I do think needs to be addressed when we're talking about its limitations and I'd really like to try to show those because I'd like to be as objective as possible when talking about this machine I'm a big fan of it to be perfectly honest it's not without drawbacks and I do make it a lot more difficult to do certain tasks on this machine so the size and the weight I mean like I said it's about three feet long we've got a work envelope of practically speaking about 12 inches and truthfully that's even sort of pushing it depending on the particular machining operation you're trying to do with the machine of this size weight and stature the other big issue you run into is rigidity and that's not something that before I even had a lathe and knew very much about machining at all that's not something I really had an understanding of how important that truthfully really is and this is a consideration that has made certain operations very difficult when the lathe itself can start vibrating and moving around as I said before bolting it down will absolutely help with that and I haven't figured out a way that I really want to do that yet but it will absolutely make it more rigid but some of the things I've noticed with this machine as well as just kind of the tooling and the size of things related to this machine is that you you can notice a small amount of flex if you push things too hard don't mind your speeds and feeds or don't keep up with your maintenance on the adjusting Gib Gibbs and backlash for like the carriage here you can get if you get a small amount of movement in something that you don't want movement say the actual tool it can translate to really really really poor surface finishes generating a lot of heat in the part even breaking off tools especially carbide and and generally not getting good accurate clean cuts there's there's some challenges in making sure that you get those kind of good cuts I can't make those gorges a bomb 79 cuts where I'm peeling off a quarter-inch of steel and leaving a mere finished underneath I mean I've certainly done for the kind of operations I've wanted to do I've been able to get in there take cuts it may be more cuts than on a bigger lathe but take the cuts necessary to get the accuracy surface finish and overall part that I want I don't know whether to list it as a Cana or not because again I'm a huge amateur at making sure these Gibbs screws are an adjustment as well as the actual pad screws for I want to call them the saddles for the carriage on the on the bed that's kind of an operation in and of itself and it really requires a lot of extra attention I do notice that even if I've got their little tensioning nut set they will over time slowly walk out and loosen if that's my fault I recognized that and kind of assumed that that's the case however that is just as an aside something that I've noticed is they really require a good amount of attention to make sure everything is operating very smoothly but also at the same time very tightly there's a lot of problems on this little lathe that can arise if your carriage has any slop in it this machine has a 20 millimeter or approximately 0.78 inches spin Babur which is a little small and I've been able to do some things with it but that is one of the limits limiting factors of its size I think that's about as big as they could fit into a machine of this stature so it's not a huge issue but it is something worthy of note this boat walked itself out a long time ago and it really hasn't been an issue this this hand wheel doesn't seem to want to slide off this keyed shaft it's kind of funny in my opinion now the biggest and last real con I have with this machine as the actual screws holding everything in I've had to replace a number of them because the heads end up stripping out the two screws that hold the compound in place are from the hardware store and they are far better than the ones that shipped with this lathe same with a couple of other set screws and other places in the machine as well as the actual nuts that hold the Chuck on to the spindle the I mean they work but the hole was actually off-center of the hex which is remarkable I've never seen that before so the nuts and bolts that kind of come on this lathe you know they're of unfortunately low quality it can be a real issue if you're in the middle of something in the head of when your bolts strips out and now you have a secondary project that you have to deal with as well as a trip to the hardware store the tool post that comes with this lathe it's called a four way tool post and as you can see here it's just got these this channel all the way around it with these set screws so you could in theory hold tools in four different positions for just quick indexing of them for different operations on the lathe it's actually really ingenious little design I don't dislike it however it does have some drawbacks a couple of the main things I do not like about it is that to set the height of the tool you do need to shim the bottom of the tool usually just with you know extra feeler gauges or shim stock or something other of that nature and it can be really tedious to get your tool right at the perfect height when you're trying to just rearrange stacks of shims underneath it that makes this tool holder far less easy then either a rocker style tool post or a quick-change tool post with the adjustment screw and so that's a little bit regressive you know but it is still a very very rigid holder this seems to be hardened to tool steel and it I did use it for several months and other than the tediousness of adjusting tool height it I don't have any other complaints except holding boring bars and holding cutoff tools now I made this little jig this is a really really really crudely made item I made last year just to hold boring bars and this four-way to a post and despite its crudeness it's far better than trying to put a boring bar into this tool post by itself holding a cut-off tool is about equally much of a pain because you need one of these adapters there's as far as I can tell no real practical way to hold a cut-off tool in this sort of tool holder so you need to buy bought this adapter again from a little machine shop and it works very well it holds just I don't know what the width of this is 1/16 so okay 60,000 cutoff tool and it works pretty well but then you end up with a good amount of stick out which can lead to a decent amount of flex it's also when using a jig like this very difficult to get its height set because now you're limited with even even more restricted space to get spacers in so it does work and it's very possible to use but in my opinion it's a little bit of a pain now one upgrade to mitigate the shortcomings of this for four-way to a post is something like this this is what I've been using for the last almost year now at least the last 10 or so months is this is a quick change to a post from A to Z CNC company and I did a small video on it when I received it because it is neat and it's a pretty pretty attractive price I believe it's just under 100 bucks for this and then a number of tool holders to hold things like your cutoff tools you're boring tools and just turning tools so you get more tool holding capabilities and you get the quickness of adjustment they all have this bolt right here that adjusts the tool height which is very nice and it makes it very easy to set your tool height and get your tools in order I do like that aspect of a lot however this tool post it is entirely aluminum and I get flecks in it I do not like that and I've noticed it a lot the tool holders themselves I've had to modify just to get them usable even right out of the box I had to chase the set screw threads with the tap and I've had to modify like the cutoff tool holder just would hold cutoff tools without them flying out even when it's the one they say is supposed to fit in there so ultimately if you're going to go to a quick-change tool post I would not recommend this one I would go with the Chinese version again once again little machine shop sells it for I believe about 130 dollars it's all steel and it has compatibility with other quick change tool holders that are already on the market as far as I know this one it's very neat I love what I've done with it but it's with its shortcomings versus what else is on the market I would if I had to do it all over I just I wouldn't go with this one now in discussion of some of the other upgrades and accessories have purchased or created for this lay that I'd like to talk about this more for jaw chuck I've gotten a lot of questions about it and this is just straight once again from from little machine shop it's a 5 inch and you can get it from there for just over a hundred bucks with this adapting back plate here that mounts it right onto the spindle lift with no no real effort it's super easy and it's really cheap and this is one of the best ways that you can get really good concentricity on the little lathe one of the things I really want to point out with the three jaw Chuck on the little lathe is that because of these mounting studs the way they fit into the faceplate on the spindle you will almost always get just a little bit of run-out with a three jaw Chuck the self scrolling self centering scrolling Chuck these will these do move just little tiny amounts inside the holes on the spindle so you can never really rely on them for a perfect true concentric re chucking when you put the like for instance the three jaw back onto the spindle there's always going to be a little bit of movement it's always going to be just a touch eccentric of the bore of the spindle so that in mind using things like the Morse taper in the spindle bore as well as this four jaw Chuck are two ways to get far better concentricity now for operations where it doesn't matter that you need your part to be perfectly centered to the thousandth of an inch and it shucks than the three jaw that comes with the lathe is more than more that equipped now after discussing the pros and the cons I'd like to talk about some of the things that I have experienced with this lay than some of my fixes for them some of my viewers have been with me for a while probably remember a video I put out last fall of the issues and resolutions I had with the actual first iteration of this lathe I purchased with from grizzly what ended up happening and this actually happened again in this lathe that I showed in a video I put out a few months ago the headstock gears are plastic now almost all of the gears on this lathe that drive the lead screw and everything between the motor and the the spindle and the lead screw almost all those gears are plastic and the outboard gears that drive lead screw the change gears as they're called that really doesn't bother me they're very easily replaceable if one is to strip and truthfully there's not there's not as much torque placed on those gears to where it's even an issue I haven't had an issue with the plastic change gears for the lead screw at all the gears in the headstock however are an entirely different story they're plastic and because of the high power of the motor I've noticed that the low speed transmission setting for this lathe will end up taking teeth off of those plastic gears the gear responsible for driving the spindle looks like this and I ended up pulling this out in April and you can probably see right here that there's a broken tooth if you saw my video on upgrades and repairs of this lathe you've seen this this exact thing is what happened with the first lathe I had only it was about 4 of these teeth to the point where the low speed transmission setting would not drive the spindle at all now the first time this happened sometime last fall I took the lathe apart and identified the issue with the gears but at the time did not know how to change the gears in the headstock on the spindle after calling grizzly who were very helpful about the situation they offered to resolve it with me one of the ways would be just to send the entire machine back one of the other options would for them to be to send me the gear they were both out of stock on it and I didn't know how to change it since I only live a couple of hours away from the Grizzly location in Springfield Missouri I actually asked if I could just bring it down they could look at it while I peruse their store and that's exactly what happened what they ended up doing was just offering to send me a brand new lathe because they didn't have the parts to fix on hand so they took care of me very well for that issue I found it to be a pretty good learning experience especially when about six ish eight ish months later I had to deal with that problem again when I was noticing strange issues with the headstock spindle and surface finish issues and things of that nature so one of the things that I ended up doing with this lathe in the headstock internally is changing those plastic gears out four steel ones and a little machine shop comm sells the steel replacement gears not only for the actual spindle gear but for the gear that interfaces with the transmission between high and low speed I believe those are either twenty or forty dollars apiece one of the other things I did at that time as far as talking about internal upgrades is I took the two ball bearings that the spindle spins on and upgraded those two conical bearings roller bearings I know that's a really popular mod for people who are super into these and basically all I knew was I had the the ones that little machine shops sold that they said fit this I got and they're about twenty dollars a piece and you need two of them and you can go watch my video where I do the upgrades here I've had good experiences with the lathe since those upgrades my major impetus for that was not with any problem with the original bearings themselves but I figured since I was going to have the headstock apart anyway with the spindle pulled it seemed like a good enough time to change the bearings out and for forty dollars for both bearings I thought it's it's a worthy upgrade and I've noticed a little bit more of a smoother operation generally better surface finishes when my tool isn't screwed up and I seem to get a little bit more RPMs on the top-end it definitely seems like to get better rpms the motor isn't hustling is hard for whatever that's worth one of the other repairs I had to do on this lathe on this one the replacement when they sent me I didn't ever adjust the motors tension on its timing belt and that ended up it was a little too slack and that ended up giving some some play in the timing belt that would skip and I ended up wearing teeth down not on the timing belt but on the actual pulley for it so the plastic pulley with teeth in it was worn smooth and the timing belt was not not nearly as worn I ended up replacing both the timing belt and the pulley both again parts for very cheap beat less than ten dollars each and once I set the tension on the motor properly it hasn't been an issue since it's kind of one of the cool things I like about this lathe is that if you do screw up a piece of it you can get that part for comparatively inexpensive there's actually not a part on here that you can't go replace of secondhand straight from China via little machine shops so that is a little bit of freedom there that if you do you know want a mod or play with something or even just do something and completely pull a boner and screw it up you're not you're not that far out in the middle of the ocean you can get a replacement part so when we get down to it really the kind of a conclusion of this review would be would I recommend this lathe to others and would I buy this lathe all over again now I would recommend this lathe to others I just I would do so by making clear some of its limitations being that of its size and some of the other things I've gone over in this video that are granted sort of inherent to the machine that are obvious kind of a if you buy it you you do know what you're getting into to a degree and I'd make sure that whomever was interested in this lathe knew that I think it's a great lathe for somebody wanting to learn machining and especially for anybody who may have requirements for a lathe that needs to be of a smaller stature lighter weight 110 volt can fit in a small area can be moved relatively easily and worked on relatively easily you know it's a great lathe for that if those are some of your requirements for a machine or some of your limitations in your shop then this lathe is really great for that because you can you do not need a lot of room to do a pretty good amount of machining on this little lathe I think it's also a good option for a lot of people in the making community who do want to get into machining and doing metal turning and things of that nature but don't want to dedicate entire shop to a heavier or more expensive lathe you know it's a great if you're if you're not focused on doing machining stuff primarily I think it's great now would I buy it again well looking at the considerations I took at the time I purchased this lathe I think I you know I think I chose wisely at the time knowing what I did then knowing what I do now however the fact that I do a lot more machining than I thought I would I picked it up faster than I thought I would really took more of a liking to it than I thought I would I would probably tell my past self to go for the next lathe up the maybe like the G zero six zero two which is three times heavier a lot bigger and more higher power a lot more capacity it doesn't have the left-handed threading option or the reversed lead screw option however that is a modification that can be done to it and knowing what I know now about actually making tools and modifying the machines to suit me I'd be more comfortable with undertaking that operation now than I was even a year ago so basically if you want to do a lot of machining yeah you should probably get a bigger lathe let's face it I have really outgrown this guy I love it and I'm really looking forward to more stuff with it but you know one of the kind of the rules of thumb is always get the biggest lathe you can afford now consequentially at the time probably that was this so those are my thoughts on this lathe I hope that was conclusive for a lot of you guys I hope that was really illustrative of some of the ins and outs of this lathe and if you do have questions I really urge you ask me I love answering questions about this Lane I'm happy to share my experiences with this lathe I'm not a champion of mini machines it's not my thing I don't have a dire need to go for the small lathe or to go out of my way to defend this little late there's a lot of existing negative information about this lathe already out there on the net people seem to think that it just can't do stuff which there is stuff it can't do but to be perfectly honest this stuff it can I think needs to be a little bit more out there thank you for checking this out and give me that thumbs up and subscribe if if you like this and feel free to check out my patreon page I throw extra projects and discussion videos and kind of behind the scenes stuff out on my patreon so anyway thank you for watching

Channel: Practical Renaissance

Views: 617,063

Keywords: Grizzly, G0765, 7x14, Mini Lathe, Lathe, Machining, Metalworking, Tools, Tool, Machine, Metal, Mini, Machinist, Import, Chinese, Harbor Freight, Review, Tool Review, Turning, Gunsmithing

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Length: 40min 32sec (2432 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 04 2016