🔩 Heavy-Duty Tailstock Center: PSI LCENTLT2 for Enhanced Precision and Stability! Review

I received this order and then the next day or two I revisited the site and read some reviews. Complaints that the bearings were of poor quality. So when I got mine, the first thing I did was take it apart. I decided to see what size bearing it was and replace it. When I looked at what others have said about the low quality single bearing design, I realized that this is not what others have said. It was actually a well built double bearing design with high quality sealed bearings in a finely…

The first thing that struck me when I received it was the lack of padding for the box. What should have ended up being a good tip is flattened out, resulting in a side ridge. Next thing I understand is that the bearings in it are very bad. When I tried to spin the tip with my hands, it was very slow and couldn't spin freely. I sanded down the tip thinking it was cheap and might need a bit of breaking in before it's lost. I was wrong. At some point while spinning the 6x6 round shell blank (first

I have an old dead center delta lathe. This residential center is a real improvement. It's cheaper than even 30 year old ebay live centers. It turns well and I don't think either of them came close to overloading it. Note that MT #2 is shorter than regular MT. This is good for some mini lathes that cannot accommodate a full size MT. The automatic ejection mechanism does not work on my tailstock due to the shorter length. However, this is easy to solve. I simply cut off a short length of dowel…