I ask this because I just happened to be looking thru a mid 1990's Hardinge sales brochure last night and noticed for the first time that Hardinge themselves called the inch metric version the HLV-DR !
I presume the "EM" comes from 'English / Metric" but here again Hardinge themselves mostly mentions "Inch / metric" in referring the the HLV-DR model. Although there is a mention of "English threads" in there somewhere, the term "inch threads" is way more prevalent. Hence, even if "EM" was a owner conjured up slang, one would think it would be the "IM" model, not "EM".
Bottom line is I don't recall ever seeing a used HLV-DR for sale....and yet that is what it actually is if it has metric thread capability.
Theories ? :confused:
http://www.sterlingmachinery.com/db-...20brochure.pdf
I presume the "EM" comes from 'English / Metric" but here again Hardinge themselves mostly mentions "Inch / metric" in referring the the HLV-DR model. Although there is a mention of "English threads" in there somewhere, the term "inch threads" is way more prevalent. Hence, even if "EM" was a owner conjured up slang, one would think it would be the "IM" model, not "EM".
Bottom line is I don't recall ever seeing a used HLV-DR for sale....and yet that is what it actually is if it has metric thread capability.
Theories ? :confused:
http://www.sterlingmachinery.com/db-...20brochure.pdf