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- Dec 14, 2017
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A DA-U Oerlikon lathe is for sale on ebay, or maybe not for sale due to the price. Have any of you run one of these beauties?
Despite the outrageous price, it is a very interesting lathe. The seller doesn't appear to know much about it. Probably missing the now likely unobtainable operator's manual.
From this site it looks to be 20" swing x 60" about 8000# and 20HP.
The condition appears very good and the very nice paint job looks original. The bed is massive with integral chip tray and full length base. It must be geared head, not VS, but the headstock is curiously tiny, very thin. Not at all what you'd expect for a 20HP geared head lathe.
The carriage has some great features, some unusual.
Nice turret stop on longitudinal and transverse motion. Maybe both kick the feed out automatically? The cross feed stop sure looks complicated enough to do so. Zoom in and you can really see the nice paint job. The capstan handwheel on the right must be to select multiples of feed rate. I don't like the round handwheel handles. Lots of Euro lathes have funny handles. The low lever under the carriage handwheel is the manual lube for the carriage. The joystick is a welcome touch when you stand in front of the thing all day.
Here you can see the unusual compound rest, which incorporates a fixed slide at 90 degree to the normal compound slide. From another video some of these lathes had this 90* slide powered for cutting tapers. I'll post a link to that vid at the end. Is the compund t-nut groove in the cross slide open? If it is talk about a chip magnet! The scales for macro positioning on cross and compound feeds are nice touches for the pre-DRO age. The tool post looks pretty stout. What is the knurled knob at 5:30 in the second pic for?
Is the tailstock air over hydraulic? There is an air connection, pressure gauge, and a control lever at the left end that looks to be a pressure control. In this pic you can also see a bellowed stud coming out the right side of the carriage. I think this may hook to the tailstock to drag along and maybe even power feed drill a la Cazeneuve. The tailstock quill looks small for a 20" lathe.
Looks like inch, metric, DP, and Module pitches. No directly selectable 11.5, 13.5, or 27 pitches. I've seen this on other euro lathes, it's not uncommon, but it seems silly on a lathe with so many added features. I don't see any threading dial. How did threading work? I think it has leadscrew reverse so maybe engage half nuts once and use LSR thereafter with never a threading dial? That is great but might be inconvenient for some stuff.
Here is a video of maybe an earlier model, illustrating some of the features.
Imagine what a machine like this would cost new today. You can get this beauty for only 45K! I'll bet they will throw in shipping too if you ask nicely.
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Despite the outrageous price, it is a very interesting lathe. The seller doesn't appear to know much about it. Probably missing the now likely unobtainable operator's manual.
From this site it looks to be 20" swing x 60" about 8000# and 20HP.
The condition appears very good and the very nice paint job looks original. The bed is massive with integral chip tray and full length base. It must be geared head, not VS, but the headstock is curiously tiny, very thin. Not at all what you'd expect for a 20HP geared head lathe.
The carriage has some great features, some unusual.
Nice turret stop on longitudinal and transverse motion. Maybe both kick the feed out automatically? The cross feed stop sure looks complicated enough to do so. Zoom in and you can really see the nice paint job. The capstan handwheel on the right must be to select multiples of feed rate. I don't like the round handwheel handles. Lots of Euro lathes have funny handles. The low lever under the carriage handwheel is the manual lube for the carriage. The joystick is a welcome touch when you stand in front of the thing all day.
Here you can see the unusual compound rest, which incorporates a fixed slide at 90 degree to the normal compound slide. From another video some of these lathes had this 90* slide powered for cutting tapers. I'll post a link to that vid at the end. Is the compund t-nut groove in the cross slide open? If it is talk about a chip magnet! The scales for macro positioning on cross and compound feeds are nice touches for the pre-DRO age. The tool post looks pretty stout. What is the knurled knob at 5:30 in the second pic for?
Is the tailstock air over hydraulic? There is an air connection, pressure gauge, and a control lever at the left end that looks to be a pressure control. In this pic you can also see a bellowed stud coming out the right side of the carriage. I think this may hook to the tailstock to drag along and maybe even power feed drill a la Cazeneuve. The tailstock quill looks small for a 20" lathe.
Looks like inch, metric, DP, and Module pitches. No directly selectable 11.5, 13.5, or 27 pitches. I've seen this on other euro lathes, it's not uncommon, but it seems silly on a lathe with so many added features. I don't see any threading dial. How did threading work? I think it has leadscrew reverse so maybe engage half nuts once and use LSR thereafter with never a threading dial? That is great but might be inconvenient for some stuff.
Here is a video of maybe an earlier model, illustrating some of the features.
Imagine what a machine like this would cost new today. You can get this beauty for only 45K! I'll bet they will throw in shipping too if you ask nicely.
