My latest lathe acquisition , Hardinge HLVH!!

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gcarsen
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My latest lathe acquisition , Hardinge HLVH!!

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Did some trading and got a Hardinge hlvh model lathe. Stripped, and very grungy looking. But it's badged as an England Hardinge made in feltham middlesex England!! Got it landed in the shop and started doing a little research. England Hardinge models where labeled as BK models I gues and the serial numbers have a O or a K as the prefix I guess. This ones serial pad has HLVH model serial number 280 on its I'd pad. Called Hardinge service and got a hold of one of there senior service techs and talked with him for a while. The England models where built to metric dimensions so everything is a bit different, still was not sounding right, everything is the size I am used to, asked him about serial numbers and he verified what I thought and he was wondering about my numbers too. He ran the numbers in there records and some fantastic news came back!!
My Hardinge is an American built in Elvira New York HLVH model. Made in 1962 and was sent to England to be rebadged for England's first year of production.
So now I need to find some time and give this treasure a full rebuild to new standards and condition! It looks nasty, but looking at the cross slide corners,no chuck strikes!! Ways are very nice, tapers look good!! Will rebuild very easily and nicely!! planning on a complete disassembly, rebuild and paint to better than new specs!! currently looking at acquiring a way grinder to redo lathe beds with, but that's for another post!
also finally got my second Lodge & Shipley 1408AVS brough home last week, will post some pics of that one later
Grant
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gcarsen
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here are a couple more pics,
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Nice score Grant!
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Grant,

Very nice, I am sure you will put it to good use. I recently bought a Feeler copy of the Hardinge HLV-H and wish I had bought one years ago. Now I am on a mission to get as many attachments for it as I can (it is a disease). Made patterns for the steady rest and tracer attachments and just bought a Feeler radius attachment and a Hardinge tracer attachment. I had to make a new base for the tracer since the Feeler is metric and the lock down pin and register on the Hardinge would not fit the Feeler.

Ken
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Hello Ken!
been meaning to call you but have been having some problems and not enough time! yes, they are a fantastically designed lathe!! you been using the threading set up on it? looks like you are getting the majority of the attachments. have you seen the overhead parting tool that attaches to the front of the spindle? seams they also made a 6 station turret set up that you pulled the tailstock off, slide the unit on and you then had a small turret lathe for small parts.
your steady rest looks very nice!! nice castings!
Grant
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Nice score! Hardinge remain my favorite precision manual lathes.
I have worked in a shop that had three Hardinge lathes (one a chucker) and two Hardinge mills.
Spoiled me forever!
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No chuck strikes then somebody with some attention and skills ran it. A real good sign since it was likely lubed often and properly and looked after. Probably you know of it, but the Practical Machinist Bridgeport / Hardinge forum has a lot of great information about them. Babin Machinery make a retrofit kit for adding electronic threading but not exactly dirt cheap. For a lathe of it's swing size I don't know of a better built or more user friendly machine. I just wish I had one.
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Nice, should keep you busy for hours!

"Elvira" NY- really?
Conrad

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gcarsen wrote:...
My Hardinge is an American built in Elvira New York HLVH model.
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It may just be a typo when you copied it or it may be a misspelling in the records but 'Elvira' probably should be 'Elmira'. Google does not know any Elvira town in NY but Elmira is a well know old industrial town. It is located near the PA/NY border a bit west of Binghamton. Like almost all old industrial towns in NY (and much of the US) its jobs were eliminated or sent to somewhere and now the biggest income source is probably retirement checks. I think my first typewriter came from there and I use to see American LaFrance fire trucks being shipped along my commute hi-way from there.
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Nice acquisition....
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