Excellent product attentive seller

I was looking for a micro mill for watchmaking and found this mill. It has exceeded my expectations for product quality as I am used to buying the made in China products. For small parts it is very accurate and the slide is very well made, I do not expect to use it for heavy milling as it is not made for that purpose. It would be nice if it had a quill the was bored through to accept different styles of collects, other than that nice to see American made products still available.

My experience wasn't the best , the motor starting smoking and died within ten minutes after I spent a good amount of time assembling the mill and the electronic portion of the mill didn't appear to be worth what was paid

This machine has potential, but the unit I received had a bad motor that showed signs of shorts in the coils. It got way to hot and started to have tiny wisps of smoke and a bad smell. This happens with electric motors from what I read online. I also read that most are happy with the manufacturer's other tools. As for the ShopFox in the limited testing I did the drill chuck appeared very stable and a small .5mm drillbit displayed no wobble I could see. I did not get to use the machine as it displayed the motor defects during the warmup run recommended in the instructions, and so I had to pack it up for return. It seemed like it would do the job of a small precise bench drill press for precision holes pretty well. I was sad to send it back, the lack of play in the drill chuck seemed like what I was looking for in a precision drill, with ability to do some light milling on plastic and soft metal parts.

Getting the machine was a bit of a hassle, Amazon seems to think it comes in one box but it comes in two, the mill base and head in one and the slide table in the other. I received the mill but not the slide table and had to call and email amazon about it to finally get the whole machine, then it didn't work. Amazon is great for some things, but for this machine in its two boxes they seem to be confused, so maybe confirm things with them if you're going to order it.