If you are going to buy a repair lathe for doing tips, ferrules and cleans etc, you will be far better off buying a mid size lathe from hightower (cuesmith). That configuration you are looking at uses a drill motor, enough said. You will want to be "centered" when doing a ferrule especially, and I would be suspect as to that maching being so and I didnt see an adjustment if it was off center. There does seem to be adjustment for up and down but not side to side. You get what you pay for, I would hate to see that set up with a shaft that had a slight wabble.