Pretty heavy at 47kg It is a pretty solid machine but lightwieght in some areas such as the belt bench. It has the graphite under belt pad. The bench itself seems a bit flimsy and you can actually deform it if you twist it on it with your hands from the outer end. It runs pretty smooth and runs true. The disk also runs true. Rated at 500 watts it doesnt feel that powerfull. I reckon the motor output is overated. It comes with 6x48" belt and sticky back 8" disk. It is pretty much easy to spot it as a chinese machine from the weird instruction manual and a few missing screws plus a few others I couldnt work into the job anyware. The table is cast iron and very straight and true. Once you get the table on and tight it is pretty solid. The supplied mitre guage is pretty crap and wouldnt slide through the slot until I filed the slot down a bit. In its class at $400, it was the cheapest compact unit. by compact I mean the disk is directly under the belt. There were some cheaper 8x6" units with the disk kind of offset to the left making them some 8" longer. I kind of wish I spent the extra on the carbatec job at $499 but as it was I was $200 over budget [ouch] The jet is beautiful but too expensive for a seldom used tool. The smaller 6x4 and 4x4" were pretty cheesey wth hopeless tables. At least with this one I will be able to set the table square and lock it tight So I won't have to check it for square every job.

All in all, for a tool I only use every so often it is perfectly adequate and I am quite pleased wth its smooth and true running belt and disk. I would be real happy if I had paid say $320 to $340