@elbo: yeah the machine is very cheap now. I think I paid 40USD for mine quite a while ago
@bluerocker: mine is stock but I do want to beef it up with a higher quality motor. but I'm going to wait until this one gives out. It is a copy of a stigma bizarre V1, a machine that stigma no longer produces, I believe...

I don't endorse the mantis in any way. Quality control in chinese products are always an issue. I may have just gotten lucky and got a decent one, others may not have been so lucky. Also, I don't use this machine on a day to day basis so I can't say how well it would hold up over time. I have alot of machines and I rotate the machines I use so no one machine gets used everyday
( This public service announcement was posted in a feable attempt to appease the haters and cyberbullies who feel it is their duty to dictate to other artists just what equipment they should be using in their own practice and is directed at the sheeple who listen to them. free thinkers, do what you feel is best for you....discretion is advised )