You certainly got a great deal on the Hardinge. Great video as well. You make it look easy but without your skill set it would be a different story. I have a 1960 South Bend Lathe 13x40 engine lathe with a 3-step pulley and a 2-1/8" belt. I'm down to getting the paint done and had a lot of help from the Practical Machinist Forum to get it working. Learned my lesson the hard way even buying from an older machinist as honest as the day is long. I'm a Boilermaker Pipe welder fabricator with just enough machinist background to get in trouble, and I did. I love the Hardinge Lathe and wished I had known about them before I went shopping back in 2019. I'm 71 and considered buying a small benchtop CNC machine but the CAD side was too complicated to learn and understand at my age. I have to take pills just to remember who I am everyday lol. I'm going through and looking at your videos to see what I can learn from a professional. Thank you for sharing your skills with us. Stay healthy and live long.
That's an incredible machine Dave, thanks for making the video. You apparently got the deal of the century back in 2014, because I don't see this sort of set-up listed for that little here in 2019.
I just picked up a checker for free, it is stuck and some rust but I"ll get it back in working order . Liked your videos. Keep it up , I am an old machinist 82 still enjoy Thanks James
I have this same lathe and never knew you could get a threading attachment like that. My dad paid around $12k for it in 1972, He also made steam locomotives!
Okay! I'm just discovering the Hardinge lathes, and I am amazed by them. These are incredible machines! The model with the turret is awesome! I'm taking a deep dive. Very intrigued... I subbed!
Hello Trainman4602! Have been really enjoying your videos. Thank you for taking the time to post them. I'm not making train parts however. I'm making custom watches. I just purchased a Hardinge HC Chucker on ebay. It looks really nice. Came with a lot of extra tooling as well as the automatic threading unit and an Acurite DRO. I'm super excited to get it going! i may need your help setting it up and getting the threading unit going. Hope you don't mind if I shoot you some questions from time to time! Please keep the videos coming! Take care and have a great weekend! Denis McCarthy McCarthy Aerospace
Hi Dave, just ran across your videos on the Hardinge Chucker which I have never seen before. In our shop we had probably 10 of the old covered wagon Hardinge cnc's and 6 or 8 of the 9 series and over the year's have retired most of them. We also have some of the speed lathe's and a couple of, I think chucker's, but they have a small turret that slides on the way's unlike yours. The turret on yours looks like the cnc turrets. Any way I think I can fix you up on the tool that center's your tooling, and maybe some other tooling if needed. Just let me know what you need. I think you have the perfect machine for your needs. Good luck and happy machining. John
Hey I'm a south Jersey nut , I was working in several shops for my apprenticeship. In the 70s , us pipe and roebling bugged me to come work for them. Did you ever work in any of the shops below Trenton . Somewhere or sometime I think we met. Even at cookies I started with Tommy in laurel springs his first showroom . Celmar , inductotherm . Ring any bells, Everworth , RKL, and several others.
Does anyone know if the threading attachment could be adapted to be used as a copying attachment? Curious as one of these has come up in my area for cheap.. I need a cheap copying lathe. 😬🤔
Dave You said on the previous video and on this one you were cutting a 7/16" - 40 thread, and you could buy a tap and die for this thread. The British ME ( model engineer ) standard uses 32 and 40 tpi for 7/16", but it is 55 degrees included angle. Are you using 55 degrees or 60 degrees ? If it's 60 degrees, what is this standard known as ? USA ME standard ? In other words, what sort of tap and die would you look for, when trying to buy them ? Thanks
you got that in tire machine and all the attachments for $2,500? That's amazing. you can't even buy that's a doll that you're using for $2,500 I've been looking for one. I got a DSM 59 for free from a company that felt sorry for me I guess because I was dying at the time now I'm off the terminal list yay. my brother-in-law works there and they were decommissioning it cuz it never was used in 45 years cuz it's a CNC shop. The only thing that ever used it for was high-speed polisher period so at any rate I got it for free and I'm going to be wearing it up tomorrow or the next day God willing if I'm feeling good enough. my phase converter should be here anytime. but all the thing came with was a couple of double cross slides the small truck the collet closer and a couple of tip slides so basically I'm starting out pretty raw and need a bunch of stuff to make it functional for me. I have another lathe now but I really wanted a hardinge to learn how to make small parts
Love the huge dials! There is a place for these machine still. Small batch work will never end.
You certainly got a great deal on the Hardinge. Great video as well. You make it look easy but without your skill set it would be a different story. I have a 1960 South Bend Lathe 13x40 engine lathe with a 3-step pulley and a 2-1/8" belt. I'm down to getting the paint done and had a lot of help from the Practical Machinist Forum to get it working. Learned my lesson the hard way even buying from an older machinist as honest as the day is long. I'm a Boilermaker Pipe welder fabricator with just enough machinist background to get in trouble, and I did. I love the Hardinge Lathe and wished I had known about them before I went shopping back in 2019. I'm 71 and considered buying a small benchtop CNC machine but the CAD side was too complicated to learn and understand at my age. I have to take pills just to remember who I am everyday lol. I'm going through and looking at your videos to see what I can learn from a professional. Thank you for sharing your skills with us. Stay healthy and live long.
That's an incredible machine Dave, thanks for making the video. You apparently got the deal of the century back in 2014, because I don't see this sort of set-up listed for that little here in 2019.
I just picked up a checker for free, it is stuck and some rust but I"ll get it back in working order .
Liked your videos. Keep it up , I am an old machinist 82 still enjoy
Thanks James
That is really impressive. My wife just watched and she said, "He uses that lathe like I use my sewing machine!" ;-) She's a trained dressmaker, BTW.
Thanks for sharing that Dave. It was great seeing that.
Thanks for the video, Dave. I love watching the Hardinge machines work. I have a 1978 HC, and a 1984 DSM A, which I might have to sell to you one day.
Great little machine, good work too...
I have this same lathe and never knew you could get a threading attachment like that. My dad paid around $12k for it in 1972, He also made steam locomotives!
Love those Hardinges----nice setup
Okay! I'm just discovering the Hardinge lathes, and I am amazed by them. These are incredible machines! The model with the turret is awesome! I'm taking a deep dive. Very intrigued... I subbed!
That Hardinge is a beaut!
Great machine! Great video quality too!
You are the master!
Hello Trainman4602! Have been really enjoying your videos. Thank you for taking the time to post them. I'm not making train parts however. I'm making custom watches. I just purchased a Hardinge HC Chucker on ebay. It looks really nice. Came with a lot of extra tooling as well as the automatic threading unit and an Acurite DRO. I'm super excited to get it going! i may need your help setting it up and getting the threading unit going. Hope you don't mind if I shoot you some questions from time to time! Please keep the videos coming! Take care and have a great weekend!
Denis McCarthy
McCarthy Aerospace
OK I will try to help you
I worked on the Hardinge in the 90th - Nice machine!
Hi Dave, just ran across your videos on the Hardinge Chucker which I have never seen before. In our shop we had probably 10 of the old covered wagon Hardinge cnc's and 6 or 8 of the 9 series and over the year's have retired most of them. We also have some of the speed lathe's and a couple of, I think chucker's, but they have a small turret that slides on the way's unlike yours. The turret on yours looks like the cnc turrets. Any way I think I can fix you up on the tool that center's your tooling, and maybe some other tooling if needed. Just let me know what you need. I think you have the perfect machine for your needs. Good luck and happy machining.
John
I enjoyed watching this video. I would have liked to have a real close up of the actual threat cutting process. Keep em commin! Thanks! Fred
Hey I'm a south Jersey nut , I was working in several shops for my apprenticeship. In the 70s , us pipe and roebling bugged me to come work for them. Did you ever work in any of the shops below Trenton . Somewhere or sometime I think we met. Even at cookies I started with Tommy in laurel springs his first showroom . Celmar , inductotherm . Ring any bells, Everworth , RKL, and several others.
Hi i needed more information about type thanke
Will you make a video on how to set up and run the auto threader? I have one and am catching hell on getting it tuned correctly.
I'm sorry but I haven't much time these days I may in the future
What happened to the trainman . Haven’t seen you make any new RUclips video lately
Slick machine Dave
Tim
Who needs CNC, when you have a computer between your ears?
Came in from mowing and watched this again. If you have time could you do a video detailing the fabrication of a steam throttle valve?
I did you have to look for it in my 269 videos
@@trainman4602 I'll do that, thank you sir! Have a great 4th of July!
What is the upper RPM limit on threading with that attachment?
Most operations on small parts in brass are at full-tilt boogie.
Frank
Does anyone know if the threading attachment could be adapted to be used as a copying attachment? Curious as one of these has come up in my area for cheap.. I need a cheap copying lathe. 😬🤔
Good video Dave, yes I am an old school guy also.
Later
Dave
You said on the previous video and on this one you were cutting a 7/16" - 40 thread, and you could buy a tap and die for this thread. The British ME ( model engineer ) standard uses 32 and 40 tpi for 7/16", but it is 55 degrees included angle. Are you using 55 degrees or 60 degrees ? If it's 60 degrees, what is this standard known as ? USA ME standard ?
In other words, what sort of tap and die would you look for, when trying to buy them ?
Thanks
THEY ARE 60 DEGREE THREADS YOU CAN GET THEM FROM VIDTORY MACHIN TOOL GOOGLE THEM.
Thanks!!
holy smoke thats a new one on me.!
you got that in tire machine and all the attachments for $2,500? That's amazing. you can't even buy that's a doll that you're using for $2,500 I've been looking for one. I got a DSM 59 for free from a company that felt sorry for me I guess because I was dying at the time now I'm off the terminal list yay. my brother-in-law works there and they were decommissioning it cuz it never was used in 45 years cuz it's a CNC shop. The only thing that ever used it for was high-speed polisher period so at any rate I got it for free and I'm going to be wearing it up tomorrow or the next day God willing if I'm feeling good enough. my phase converter should be here anytime. but all the thing came with was a couple of double cross slides the small truck the collet closer and a couple of tip slides so basically I'm starting out pretty raw and need a bunch of stuff to make it functional for me. I have another lathe now but I really wanted a hardinge to learn how to make small parts
Would be great if we could actually see what the toll is doing.
there are other videos that show that
Hi
what model is the lathe
Hardinge HCA with auto threading
Geometric die heads are a quicker way to thread
Not as accurate