Never owned a Cadet, but Okuma is as good as it gets. I've owned and run Mori-Seiki, Kitamura, Mikron and other 'high-end' machinery, and nothing is built like Okuma. It's sort of like their engineers said "forget price, what would be the absolute most bulletproof way to design 'x' on a machine?" and then they did that. Not cheap to fix, but they run forever and hardly ever break. I have 35+ year old Okuma LC lathe that fires up every day and cranks out parts and holds a tenth all day long without missing a beat. I've made countless thousands of parts on it and the only problems have been stuff like a worn our relay, limit switch, and the occasional gasket/seal that needs replaced. Pretty good for a machine almost as old as me.