L Vanice
Diamond
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2006
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN
In 1937, Leigh R. Evans was granted patent no. 2,066,560, assigned to Hardinge Brothers. The patent was filed in 1934. He designed an underneath drive for the Cataract enclosed head bench lathe, possibly the first new product introduced by the new Hardinge Brothers company after setting up in Elmira, NY. The patent drawings show both a newly designed wood desk-type bench and the original Hardinge wood top/steel pipe leg bench (Patent no. 928045, filed 1908). I have had a couple of the pipe leg benches, but I have only seen a couple of the desk benches on eBay. I think the the desk benches were all maple, but I know the top and splash boards on the pipe leg benches were maple. They clean up to look very pretty.
The lathe in 1934 had a mostly round bed and was once the logo on the Practical Machinist pages. Around 1940, Hardinge designed a new lathe with what I call the skirted bed. The enclosed headstock version was called model TR when sold with a slide rest and tailstock or model ESM when sold with a lever cross slide and turret. There were also open headstock flat belt drive models. Any of them could be ordered with a T-slot on the rear of the bed to mount a thread chasing attachment.
Anyway, there just turned up on eBay a 1942 Hardinge TR59 lathe with the rear T-slot mounted on the desk bench. That is a very rare lathe, though the $2950 asking price is the usual silly dream. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing what one looks like.
HARDINGE 9" x 28" METAL LATHE | eBay
My 1944 ESM59 was purchased on a pipe leg bench, but I swapped it onto a standard steel cabinet when I rebuilt it. Mine has the complete thread chasing attachment, lever cross slide, slide rest, turret and conventional tailstock. Most of these veterans of WWII production are found on steel cabinets.
Larry
The lathe in 1934 had a mostly round bed and was once the logo on the Practical Machinist pages. Around 1940, Hardinge designed a new lathe with what I call the skirted bed. The enclosed headstock version was called model TR when sold with a slide rest and tailstock or model ESM when sold with a lever cross slide and turret. There were also open headstock flat belt drive models. Any of them could be ordered with a T-slot on the rear of the bed to mount a thread chasing attachment.
Anyway, there just turned up on eBay a 1942 Hardinge TR59 lathe with the rear T-slot mounted on the desk bench. That is a very rare lathe, though the $2950 asking price is the usual silly dream. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing what one looks like.
HARDINGE 9" x 28" METAL LATHE | eBay
My 1944 ESM59 was purchased on a pipe leg bench, but I swapped it onto a standard steel cabinet when I rebuilt it. Mine has the complete thread chasing attachment, lever cross slide, slide rest, turret and conventional tailstock. Most of these veterans of WWII production are found on steel cabinets.
Larry