Okuma's are good, expensive on repairs. We run ours 24/7 pounding out car parts for ford.
Makino's are another good option aswell as Doosan (japanese) both run 24/7 and hold tight tolerances.
We recently purchased an Itallian Reillo machine, verdict is still out on it........
If you can, go new, don't buy someone else's headache, Have you considered leasing? we lease our Makino, and they do the PM service on it.
We use our Okumas and Dooturn Doosans for turning operations on very heavy cast iron, these machines deffinetly take a beating and still give us tight tolerances less than thou!
hope this helps
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