stormbird
Plastic
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2014
- Location
- United Kingdom
Is the variable speed drive system (belts and expanding pulleys)of the HLV-H identical to the HLV assuming like for like production year? Ie same size belts and same size bearings?
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Good info, and yet my post-'57 UK machine has the levers on the bedway still.
In other threads it has been mentioned that only the Hardinge belts work. I have never tried anything else, so I do not know which or if any can be substituted.
It made an amazing difference in the loudness of my AHC when I replaced the lower belt. An old cracked belt sure can be noisy.
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