Honestly, I happen to see your other nice videos from NUMOBAMS machine before seeing this one. We both have the same fate, of owning a bad machine first and decided immediately to get another one - to save our mistake. :) And as I saw you latest NUMOBAMS lathe video, you inspired me while waiting for my model NU240E that I ordered a few days ago. Am hoping that it is as good as your machine. Seems you may have been working many times with Stainless Steel workpiece, hope to see these with your new NU210ES machine. Am very excited to learn more from you. Thank s for the videos. Watching from Philippines.

What is your RPM working on that Mini lathe? Seems very strong lathe. Does the RPM suppose to be at High Speed, but am I correct that it is only at 620RPM? Thank you very much for answering.

Appears to be better quality then the VEVOR lathes.

Vis os noget mere om din drejebænk

Sehr gute Arbeit. Danke für dieses tolle Rezept !

Threading mode needs a faster return.

I thank God, i was locky to find good old German lathe. Never needed to mess around with Bernado, HMB and the others. Once up on time I used to work ship made in China had of course chinese lathe. Fitter came to complain to me that lathe is throwing pieces around the workshop. I went to see lathe and found out there was lot of cap in all the slides. So I show to fitter that we need to tighten the keyes. So we tighten the screws(old style) when moving the cross slide back and fort. And I tought it is fine now. Then I was turning the cross slide out to get it in the area where you usually work with it, and it stuck. Then I turned to inwards all the way and ti stuck again before end. Was we had to leave 0.2mm tolerance otherwise it woudn´t go all hte way. Few days later I had check of lathe in service program... So I wrote there: This lathe is good for sharpening pencils or woden plugs. accuracy is not enought for machining mechanical parts of the ship. I´m very sad about how much shit is sold to people. And we are not talking about small money.

I'm a CNC tech by day so I've worked on a lot of machines. Every single one of them, Chinese, American, German, Japanese, UK, etc. have had filler on the cast iron. I'm in the middle of restoring my Monarch 10EE lathe that was in a fire. Every square inch of that machine had filler on it and it's taking me forever to remove what was left of the old filler. Even worse is putting the new filler on. Bodywork isn't my thing so it's been a nightmare. To make it 1000x harder, just about every surface on the Monarch is curved so it's just about all hand sanding. FWIW, the Monarch castings were surprisingly rough, some areas should have had a lot more ground off, some deep grinder marks here and there, some bits of porosity, overall a relatively poor job on cleaning up the casting. Filler hides all of that. My Bridgeport mill was the same. I have a Swedish made 24" Solberga drill press that was also in the fire and it too had filler on it too despite the fact the head on it is square and machined flat. The carriage is very narrow on this machine, I think you're going to have a lot of rigidity issues with this machine, and the reduced surface area increases the rate of wear at the same time. Speaking of which, I would pay particular attention to the way wipers, the stock ones are usually junk and should be replaced with high quality materials.

This lathe is junk. Not the only junk from Europe nowadays.

You should have bought a 'Cheap Chinese Lathe' >> You would have at least received a decent Machine !

Schade dass man in dieser Preisklasse (die meiner Meinung nach gar nicht sooo niedrig ist) nur noch China Schrott bekommt.

:( im so sorry, this happens so often with these tools that are sold in 1000 shops all around the world. and they are all from thje same factory, except that some are even worse then the already worse items. buying from these kind of shops is already like a lottery. not only for lathes but also bandsaws, belt grinders etc. i got a few tools that suck so hard i hardly or at all use them after i bought them :(

Das ist keine Drehmaschine, das ist eine totale Katastrophe. Wie kann man so einen Schrott als professionelle Maschinen bezeichnen? Vielen Dank für das Video. Lieber eine alte Schaublin oder Myford als so einen Mist kaufen.

Yeah, I also made the mistake of buying Bernardo, not only a lathe but also a band saw, and non of the products is worth the price. - But then again Bernardo is white-labeled cheap china tools.

Verkaufe meine zum halben Preis. Bernardo Drehbank sind der allerletzte Schrott. Finger weg. Nur für den Modellbau geeignet um Plastikteile zu drehen.

I worked in a school that had a similar Optimum lathe, It had numerous faults including pins missing from gear selector forks. At a previous job we had a warco that was s bad we sent it back, the replacement still needed work to get it running. Two years later it was already showing heavy wear. Save your money & by a decent secondhand British or German lathe.

Var den virkelig ny, da du købte den? Med alt det rust er det svært at forstå...

13:40 Well, I guess you could add a new inspection certificate now?

wow! you got screwed bro

Same if not worse with D4000 lathe from Wabeco, after 6 years or so still not working. Manufacturer was replacing faulty parts with another faulty parts, they then stole 80eur not refunding me for new parts returned at my cost that also were damaged.

Man, as a German i can tell you we avoid stuff from Austria like the pest because its not worth it.

These are garbage chinese machines. A good lathe cannot be bought for less than 10k new.

I think after using it for a year and so it will become more worse sell it for a price you can get and buy a second hand eu or usa lathe. There are many good lathes on the market second hand and than you can sleep very well and enjoy your lathe The chinese cars are just the same after a few years you throw it a way for scrap We can only save our world by making good stuff that hold for years

Looks like fraud to me. I'd definitely demand a replacement, a refund, or I'd report them for fraudulent business practices if it came to that

Mängelrüge, dann innerhalb 30 Tagen zurück senden, Schlaumeier!

I'm curious about the spindle design. Do you know the bearing size or the spindle shaft wall thickness?

Those machines are made in China! Just sold in Austria, maby "assembled" too. 🤭 And that's for sure not a VFD in that puppy! It's an phase control dimmer, like in a grinder or drill! Thanks for that review, never seen one in person, and now I'm not eager to do so! 😬 For that price I can get a proper used lathe.

Everyone knows that this is a purebred Chinese. It was naive to think that it would be in perfect condition right out of the box. It is even dangerous to turn them on the first time, without making sure that all the gears are in the right place. I disassembled my machines down to the pinions and reassembled them, removing all the defects immediately after purchase. And in your case it’s also clear that it wasn’t in the original box, which is very suspicious.

The machine looks like it has already seen years of use, before it has even entered service. That is quite something

Wow, stay away from Bernardo products. Pure chinese quality.

Hint. None of the overseas lathes work right away. I did some research and bought a Grizzly. Could not be happier. After several mods it is an excellent machine. If you bought the cheapest machine you could find then you got what you paid for. An expensive paper weight. All of them need complete disassembly, cleaning and lube/re-assembly. The sooner you start the sooner you finish. Make chips that dont need dips!

Why haven't you returned this crap to the seller and ask your money back?

The paint flaking off the machine would have been grounds for immediately returning it to the seller and demanding a repair. In Germany there is a mandatory warranty by law, so that should apply if you bought the lathe in Germany. The duration depends on circumstances. Ideally you would complain within the first six months.

Bernardo is another scam company selling piles of Chinese trash with 5K. I work at a cnc shop with Okumas, Mazaks ect. proper machines, but my current boss(dumb) bought a Bernardo drill press "milling machine." for the welding department. He's dumb enough to not ask anyone who knows before he buys stuff. Told him to to get rid of it, but it's still sitting in the corner not being used for anything except collecting dust and to take up space.

That lathe is a prime example of a Friday built lathe.

"Numobams", that's choice. How long do you think that brand will be around, and which factory do you think it actually came out of? I bet threading on this POS is fun. 🤣

The last time I bought a cheap machine it arrived physically broken in many places, barely mounted to an inadequate pallet with a few screws. I refused the shipment. I'm not buying any more modern cheap stuff. I will only buy old, used, rebuilt stuff.

My heart goes out to you! Absolutely shocking quality! Many thanks for this review, I think I'll wait and try and find myself an older lathe.

Thanks for such an honest review - i watched with equal interest and horror, and sorry, sometimes the occasional laugh out loud at your expense. Some bits were truly awful. However I appreciated your level headed analysis. I'm sure a lot of other people would be taking a baseball bat to that thing. But was very impressed with the accuracy of the chuck once you gave it a smooth out. Almost world class how it ran after that. Good job.

You should probably better buy a Chinese lathe. 😅

How it can be so bad?

Thinking about this and the time your made the purchase, though not direct from Bernado, this machine was made with untrained labor, shoddy oversight, and under duress of C-19 lock down. Skilled labor? Probably a few self-imported folks from another area of the world hired for pennies. Materials for manufacturing of all sorts were in short supply. This machine may have been bought at an auction, shipped to your seller. You've made a robust assessment. Very sorry this happened to you, Sir.

The Bernado logo looks like a comic book font.

Wow. This is probably the worst I've ever seen. Even if you offered this to me for $100 I probably wouldn't buy it. At $50, maybe I'd take it to scrap it for material, but that's about it.

Same thing happened to me and my neighbor. We both bought the same lathe as each other, and just a couple months after receiving them, the paint was peeling off and started getting some oil leaks. We bought our lathes from Harbor Freight because they were running a sale on them and were told theyre brand new. My chuck had .004 play in it and thus the bearing was shitty. My neighbor's lathe had the same sloppy chuck bearing and then some chips of the plastic gears within a few months time. MADE IN COMMI CHINA JUNK!

Shocking quality. They sell to UK. When people see this, probably not for much longer.

You are a man of great patience both with the machine and the suppliers. I hope your modifications eventually work out to your satisfaction. I wonder if there are any more customers with similar problems that do not have your skill, I imagine they may suffer yet I hope that is not the case. Thank you for showing all of this.

I was obliged to buy the Profi 700 Pro some years ago for a workshop I set up. Not mine, I have to add quickly. I've used the lathe very regularly for five years now... and I confirm it is utterly trash. Your compound slide mount is much better than mine and the gibb adjusters are significantly better than the grub-screw adjusters that I have, and you have a leadscrew gearbox, which is great, but the rest seems roughly the same. I have all the faults you have. I tried three different chucks before it was even close to acceptable and then only after grinding the headstock taper, just like you. The slides are ok and seem robust enough, but the tailstock is a disaster. It slips along the bed if a lot of load is applied and always needs truing if you want it to drill accurately... then you are limited to 70mm of travel! The first 20mm is used to eject the chuck or drill and the last 10mm is unuseable without the quill falling out. The compound slide mount clamp screws snapped off one day, the inverter crapped out and needed to be replaced, the change-wheels are horribly noisy, the belt drive slips and there's not enough rigidity for parting-off anything other than brass and aluminium. The DRO scales have broken twice and ultimately were replaced with a much better system. In conclusion, the same as you: DO NOT BUY!

If this makes you feel any better weve had to correct issues with our Haas machines too. The one cnc bed was not true to the spindle and we had to mill it. Ive seen machinist have to do that to knee mills such as bridgeport. And ive seen and worked with a lot of old lathes like leblond that the chuck would woble like yours. You have to venter your part in the jaws with a dial indicator but they always cut true.

DEFINITELY!!!! IT SHOULD GO BACK AND BUY SOMETHING ELSE!!!👿 ..(from another company). Where was it made??? Really sorry for you.