The US KDK is gone, only import now for new. The side lever is not as robust as the Aloris, and there is only the one dovetail, not the two at 90 degrees. The tool holders for the 0, 100, 150 and 200 all interchange with the others blocks. Quite the overhang for a 200 tool holder on a 0 block, and maybe the heights can't be worked out.
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KDK's were on Burbank HS's 13" South Bends before Disney offered them a sound stage and the machine shop went away. On all the lathes at Glendale College machine shop including SB's, LeBlond Servoshifts, Monarch and the big American Pacemaker, this all in the last 30 years. My work place also had KDK's on Monarch, Pacemaker, Mori Seiki, etc.
John
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