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If you are thinking of upgrading ..... a DSG type 13

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Mcgyver

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I've got a type 13 x 42 but this has box ways which I've not seen before and is a 13 x 50. Wonder when they switched?

Anyway, they are an amazing lathe. Super heaving duty and tons of features. My 13x42 is 7.5 hp and weights 5100 lbs. Cuts inch, metric, module and diametrical pitches, multi start threads etc. This one has the high speed option and drill attachment (the one think I don't have). He says no additional tooling, so at 8300 it's not a deal - good luck finding a fixed and travelling steady, but still, what a lathe!

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FWIW, the Mint in my town sold a similar DS&G from late 1970’s roughly ten years ago. I didn’t buy it as was ridden hard and put away with coolant… From memory I think it sold higher than asking price of the one you show. And was 600v.

The one you show is sure nice to see.
 
Mine is also 600V as are a couple of other machines. RPC --> 3P ---> 240 -> 600V 3P transformer. I like having 600 the shop..... it made for better deals on stuff industry didn't want anymore and most home shops don't know what to do with or don't want to go to the trouble of powering. Mine originally came out of U of T but I bought from a fabricator in Niagara.
 
I’ve wondered how effective the long way protectors the generation of DS&G Mcgyver has (and other English lathes of that generation) compared with no ‘wings’ like this one.

The other thing I’m wondering is whether the newer DS&G has a narrower bed. From these pictures (and memory of the Mint’s machine) I think the older machines were significantly wider. True?

I may be biased as I used a 13x42 DS&G similar to Mgyver’s at local college and loved it. Now owned by a local shop and run by a friend. Still working hard 35 years after I last touched it.
 
Mine has the way protectors, they make sense, but of course I can't quantify their effectiveness - use, abuse, lubrication etc, all factor in. I just went and measured, the bed on mine (a '66) is 12" across. Mine is # 35 thousand and something, his 40 and something so '70 is a good guess.. My carriage hand is on the left, North American style.
 
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