I gotta say too that I got caught up in the mob mentality on this one. My machine came yesterday and I got to do 3hrs of black and color work(with a curved and chisel angled textured 5 mag)on my buddy's old biomech piece that we are reworking and my initial impression of the machine's ability is very high. I immediately was comfortable with it, one little voltage adjust and i was smiling from ear to ear the whole time. He however said it was more painful than the swashdrive gen 6 that i had used last time. The only mishap was one of the setscrews for the return spring vibrated out, I'd suggest putting some medium loctite on them. The whole time it ran really smooth and saturated extremely well. It is a bit fragile looking, but is very nicely designed and manufactured. I'll test it's abilities in lining hopefully today and give a better review after I've had more time with it.