My 25 ton Dake came from an Ebay auction. It was from a Cytec Chemical plant in Woodbridge, New Jersey. (Cytec was formerly American Cyanide Corp) and when the plant was closed and the manufacturing equipment moved off to China to set up the same plant there, the remaining stuff was auctioned off. The press was not sold, none of the equipment dealers wanted to fool with it (lots of presses on Ebay by equipment dealers so they were/are overloaded with them) so the plant maintenance manager bought it and a drill press and had Ebay savvy buddy list them on Ebay. Problem was, the name Dake was misspelled Drake, and it was listed as a 10 ton rather than 25 ton. I think these two things contributed to no one else bidding on the press, so I got it very cheap (reserve) and had to drive 900 miles to get it. Still has the fancy cast bronze American Cyanide Corp property data plate riveted to it, from the old days when corporations kept close track of every office chair, file cabinet, vise, drill press and other piece of equipment and inventoried every year, which none of them do now days.
Charles
