I did think about making one, but i dont have access to a milling machine. The rear one has the tool upside down and is taller to accommodate this. I dont think moving the front one to the rear will work for this reason, other than running it in reverse. Not sure how great that would work with a threaded spindle.
I will also look into the hardinge post, any idea what model number post fits the 10EE ? or has the correct height for 9" swing ?
Probably over a hundred can fit! But 90 of them are weird! Hardinge had tooling for everything one could imagine, and a few things not that easy!
Tool blocks quite aside, three of my "many" four-way TP are Hardinge-branded. AFAIK they surely made the ONE high-precision (repeats position to "tenths") one. I'm fair certain they made one of the others, but bought-in the third "house branded".
MANY of the Hardinge lathes had just a tad LESS swing that a 10EE.
The swing isn't what matters. It's the height off the top deck of the compound OR the top-slide OR tooling support in place of a compound ..to the CL of the long-axis. Which is not greatly different. Point is they are a tad smaller than a 10EE. So you raise them on a plate. No need to mill them DOWN.
One or "few" adaptor plates can raise any of
several tool blocks. The tool blocks themselves are NOT modified. And Hardinge also had plain, multi-holder block-type, and even "turret" top-plates that held their system of tooling blocks.
"Quick change"? Not exactly. Flexible change, FIT FOR A PURPOSE.. rather. Multifix, Tripan, Aloris & clones are not HSS friendly.
I am.
That's the whole point of using them. Once equipped for it, not that much work to it as to choice of blocks for "whatever" purpose.
Now.... used Hardinge debris is pricey.
OTOH, it's a close-enough fit to 9" to 12" lathes in general. More importantly, there were
catalogs. That there is
information is a value-add in itself.
Further, there are still MANY folk in the world that are familar with various components of the Hardinge "system".
Not a lot of mystery in it.
Dirt-cheap B&S, W&S, Gisholt, and other old production & turret lathe tooling can easily be four times too large. Too few people still above-ground even remember the makers OR their tooling.
And the photo doesn't tell you that!