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This is a picture of a small German lathe that owner wants information
regarding. Posted by Esben Beck <ebeck@online.no>. Esben provided the 
following description:

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Today, a friend dropped by with this lathe in the back of his car. 
It's a german Helmut Brüstle model DK. It has drawbars and collet 
retainers in both headstock and tailstock, and it has two compound 
slides (one in front and one at the  rear of the cross slide). The 
tailstock, the front compound slide and the cross slide are all lever 
operated. The apron has to be moved into position manually and locked 
to the ways before operation. Tool travel during operation is limited 
to the range of the compound slides. The lathe came with a bunch of 
collets and a 2-jaw self centering chuck.

The bed ways are hand scraped, and they show absolutely no sign of wear. 
They are something in between flat ways and prism ways, like this: 
   ___________      ____________
  /           |    |            \
 /            |    |             \


The cross slide and compound slides are dovetailed.

All the levers and the two compound slides makes me think of some sort 
of capstan/second operation lathe.

Centre height approx. 32 mm, distance between centers approx. 250 mm.

Does anybody know anything about this machine? Any feedback will be 
appreciated.

I traded the lathe for a number of MT drills and a jacobs 5/8" 3MT 
chuck :-)

 
Regards, Esben