Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Largest Manufacturing Technology Community on the Web
Stay Connected:
HLV vs HLV-BK
- Thread starter 4thTool
- Start date
- Replies 3
- Views 2,641
thermite
Diamond
- Joined
- Sep 21, 2011
Jim S.
Hot Rolled
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2003
- Location
- South Carolina
That's a useful link and post, but it does not answer the OP's question.
After years of looking, I have not found the answer to the difference between the HLV and HLV-BK. I have come to believe they are interchangeable terms. I own a 1953 HLV (narrow bed). All the Hardinge literature that I have seen, including operators manual and parts manual refer to it simply as HLV. My lathe serial number, though, is stamped HLB-B 310-3.
So, in short, I've never heard a definitive answer to what the BK stands for. Another Hardinge mystery, I guess.
Jim
Billtodd
Titanium
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2009
I wondered if the BKs were made in the UK like the KL1 (HLV-H) ? Perhaps the designation used to obscure the source while tooling the US plant for the -h product?
Bill
Bill
