Making parts, not just joining them · review
A 24-watt desktop mill for wood, plastic and soft metal, with a 0.1 mm (0.004 in) handle scale — the cheapest machine in this hub and the smallest increment it can be set to.
Where we come out A 24-watt model-maker’s mill that publishes its handle resolution and names what it cannot cut — and is sold beside a 36-watt twin with the same bullets.
This is the cheapest machine on the site and it is honest about its class. Twenty-four watts drives a 20,000 rpm motor down to a 3,000 rpm spindle through a belt, on a slide whose handles read 0.1 mm (0.004 in) per division. The materials are named — wood, plastic, soft metal — with pure copper and pure aluminum specified and alloys explicitly excluded.
That exclusion is the specification. A 24-watt spindle has no torque to spare, and alloy steel or even free-cutting brass will stall it or deflect the work. For a model engineer cutting a slot in aluminum plate, a teacher demonstrating milling, or anyone making small parts in plastic, it is the right machine at the right price. For anything this site calls metalwork, the bench mills at the other end of this shelf are between forty-five and fifty-five times the power.
The handle scale is the figure worth having. At 0.1 mm (0.004 in) per division it tells you the resolution you can actually dial, which matters more on a small machine than the motor rating — and no other machine on this shelf publishes it except the JARYANNIX mill, at 0.05 mm (0.002 in). What is absent is any axis travel, which decides the size of part it will take, and any runout figure, which this hub’s introduction names as the first thing to compare. XENDOLL also sells the identical machine at 36 W under W104MB, with word-for-word identical bullets.
Read on the day this page was built: $170 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-07. The live price is at the top of the page.
| Amazon reference | B0FRFP24R6 |
|---|---|
| EAN | 0773774729674 |
Wood, plastic, plexiglass, pure copper and pure aluminum — and the listing is explicit that alloys are out. For scale, the smallest bench drill in this hub is 270 watts and the bench mills at the top of this shelf are 1,100 to 1,300. Twenty-four watts is a rotary-tool motor on a slide, which is genuinely useful for model engineering and teaching and is not a machine for steel.
By twelve watts, on the published data. XENDOLL sells a W104MB at 36 W whose five bullets are otherwise word for word identical to this one’s — same 20,000 rpm motor, same 3,000 rpm spindle, same 0.1 mm (0.004 in) handle scale, same accessory list, same materials and the same exclusion of alloys. The references differ, the wattage differs, and nothing else published does.
Same shelf, nearest price — what else that money puts on the bench.
Details checked on October 7, 2026.
Model work and teaching, on wood, plastic and pure copper or aluminum
Specifications: the manufacturer sheet for welding and metalworking machines and the matching Amazon product page. Prices and availability: Keepa. Every figure on this page names its source.
12 V DC · lathe and mill in one · tool-height shims · soft metals only
A 12-volt combination mini lathe and mill that supplies shims to set the tool height — the one adjustment that decides whether a small lathe cuts or rubs.
Best for: Teaching turning and milling on one machine, in wood, plastic and pure copper or aluminum
≈ $235
36 W · 20,000 rpm motor · 3,000 rpm spindle · 0.1 mm (0.004 in)/division
The 36-watt version of the XENDOLL desktop mill, with the same spindle speed, the same handle scale and the same bullets as the 24-watt one.
Best for: The same model and STEM work as the 24 W machine, with half again the motor
≈ $200
7 in swing · 14 in centers · 2,500 rpm variable · reversible · DRO
The only real metal lathe in the American half of this hub — 7 by 14 inches, variable to 2,500 rpm, reversible for left-hand threads, with a digital readout and a cutter kit.
Best for: Turning steel parts on a bench, where the tooling has to come with the machine
≈ $510
