Vevor x-y table

About 6 months ago I bought a Vevor brand small x-y table and found the quality to be awful. I could not be bothered sending it back and have spent quite some time turning into something worth using (still an ongoing project ). Vevor seem to make quite a few items which look good in the pictures online but in my case the reality was quite shocking. Perhaps I just got a bad one but I would be interested to know whether others have had a similar or better experience with a Vevor item.

Doug

I assume that this is Vevor branded but a generic item made in the Far East (I bought a Warco branded table some years ago which had to go back - luckily I bought it locally so returning it was easy).

With this in mind, it might pay you to provide a link or photo to your table so as to widen the search for others' experiences.

I've had a few things from Vevor, nothing to complain about so far.

I'll continue to buy from them.

Jim

I recently purchased a Vevor 5" 4 jaw independant chuck and have no complaints.

It was a good price (£52 delivered) and arrived undamaged in very comprehensive bespoke packaging. The chuck is well finished & the jaws are a good fit in the chuck body. There is a small amount of backlash between the jaws & the adjusting screws, but not excessive. It was supplied with a nicely finished chuck jey & securing screws. There is no makers name on the chuck body, but there is a model number "K72" in the same font as the Sanou branded 3 jaw SC chuck I bought last year.

Nigel B.

Not been disappointed so far, some nice bargains over the black friday period (but one bargain seems to have been kidnapped by Hermes)

Always worth keeping an eye out for whats on offer with them, got a 750W reversible sewing motor for under 100 which is very flexible, it even ran my full Drummond gubbins (countershaft) when I tried it out

They did 38mm bore hobby lathes not so long ago and I don't doubt for an instant that fettling would be needed

(if I wasn't buried in Drummonds I would have seriously considered getting one)

Lots of cnc stuff lands from time to time too and the cnc guys snap the good stuff up, also got a vevor wire welder which has done well so far

My guess from a few emails is that it's a group of chinese outlets using "Vevor" as an import vehicle

Edited By Ady1 on 08/12/2022 18:02:50

Vevor are another bang.-Good look-alike. They will sell all sorts of things they don’t make. Some is reasonable and some is poor. Pot luck whether you get a good-un or a reject from the factory. Likely most are items rejected by responsible wholesale buyers.

My advice for both is don’t buy unless you can afford to throw it away - except that I have found their response better than that of the other one, even if they know nothing about the product.

I have a couple of diesel air heaters and neither is to specification. I anticipated the possible faults and was not in any way surprised when they failed to meet the specification. But these are (now) good enough for what I need.

Many are apparently satisfied - probably because of the price - and are oblivious to small defects which may, or may not, affect the optimal operation of the item. I expect there are a lot that don’t even check against the specification - I reckon they thrive on that type of buyer.

I bought one of their smaller rotary tables (HV4) delighted for what I paid, only issue the hole chart for div plates is for the wrong ratio, but easy enough to print out a correct one.

From what people are saying it looks like I just got a bad one. The advert made out that the items were made in a modern Chinese factory which gave me some confidence about quality but the reality was quite different. At the very reasonable price I was not expecting perfection but the quality was very very poor and could not be used straight out of the box. The main castings were not too bad but very poorly machined with the running machined surfaces as rough as hell. I ended up re-machining all the important surfaces, throwing away the gib strips which were a joke and still have to sort out the handwheels. The trouble with ebay is you never really know who you are buying from and it is so easy to end up with a lemon.

Doug

Basic problem is that Vevor is a distributor of “stuff” … not a manufacturer of anything.

MichaelG.

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Ref. __ https://www.vevor.com/pages/about-us

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 09/12/2022 11:59:49

Thanks for that link Michael, when you read all the blurb you can be forgiven for thinking you will get a decent item. Sadly for me that was not the case so it pays to be sceptical when buying online.

Doug

Doug,

Take, for instance, their cheap diesel air heaters. There are many, out there, that think they bought an 8kW heater - but they simply do not exist! Even the 5kW examples do not actually deliver 5kW, either. Yet so many people are led to believe they are buying something better than a 5kW version - when both those heaters are identical, apart from the marketing hype. They blatantly lie about that product, so why should they be trusted with anything else?

Edited By not done it yet on 09/12/2022 19:16:15

I bought 2 DRO's and 5 glass scales from them, and (I'm cursing myself here, I just know it...) They have all worked perfectly and been great, for a price better than I could import identical ones via AliExpress.

I have also had 5t rated machine skates and a 5t toe jack off them, which are very good for the price.

An acquaintance bought a 15kW induction heating machine and industrial chiller from them, found it tricky to get set up, and the instruction manual comically poor, but he's had the machine running most weeks for the last year no bother.

They seem to sell goods which are on the whole adequate, for a very reasonable price.

I bought this small 3018 cnc router from Vevor. It arrived quickly and I have not found any issues with it.

I can’t say what the customer service is like. It was despatched from a ‘fulfilment centre’ in the U.K.

I think it was good value at £129.

Stuart

Edited By Stuart Smith 5 on 09/12/2022 20:00:04

The Chinese seem to have a strange habit of lying about the specifications of things which would be a perfectly good deal for the price if advertised with correct (and believable) specs. An example would be the small stick welder that shows up on a number of these places. It is about the size of a small lunch box and is advertised as being capable of up to 250 Amps. A bit of experience would tell you that it is unlikely that you are going to get 250 Amps of welding voltage from a machine that only runs from a single phase outlet. If you get your hands on one you will find that the adjustment knob will set the display to read 250 Amps, however if you clip on a DC capable clip-on ammeter and start welding you will find that when the display says 250 it is actually delivering about half that. Open the box up and adjust the display and you will now have a little box that can deliver about 120 Amps of actual DC welding current. The display doesn't actually measure the current, it is only a fancy way of telling you where it is set. Quite useful in a machine that you can carry to the job with one hand, especially with it being DC which makes for a nice smooth arc. One guy on Youtube added a gas valve and made it into a handy scratch start Tig welder. Not suitable for aluminium or anything else requiring AC, but good for stainless. So why lie about the actual capabilties?

Of course there is some room for doubt about the quality, but then power electronics either works or it does not. The one I bought works fine and has done a couple of jobs where carting the big welder through would have been a pain. Certainly if you look inside it looks like a reasonable job. However, caveat emptor applies, I'm not necessarily recommending it. Actually if I was buying parts locally, I could not get the box without any works inside for what they charge. I suppose actually they are dumping, but good luck proving it.

John

The EU stopped China dumping dirt cheap below cost solar panels here a few years back,

if I'd been King-for-a-day I'd have bought the lot

Right on the button, there John.

One of the durability problems is the quality of the components. Capacitors that fail early and destroy the power side of the electronics is an obvious weakness. Definitely a case of marketing/dumping under-spec or failed spec items at rock-bottom prices by this company - just like ban good. Of those that are ‘happy’ with there purchases, I would wonder how many were lucky and how many have never checked the item is actually within the specification expected. I see loads of product reviews that are clearly made by numpties (one has to be careful of what is written on the internet).

Richard

I'm wondering about one of those. I can always sell it on if it's really bad but I won't be making high speed IC engines so accuracy may not matter too much and I do have 'abrasive' facilities if the finish is not good enough for me.

Any more comments about your purchase, after these few years/

Andrew