The hardinge lathe I bought last week finally showed up. The shipper had go use three different people before the final guy (a retired merch mariner) succeeded. He had to drive it up here since none of his employees wanted to deal with it.
According to helpful people on practical machinist it was made in the 1930s. It looks like the toolroom lathe on Tony's UK lathe site (http://www.lathes.co.uk/cataract/page5.html), but not quite as clean.
It was converted to 110v using a baldor motor. Theres a lot of tooling --- several live centers, collets, 3 and 4 jaw chucks, even comes with a spare baldor! According to the mover guy it looks like the owner built race cars --- you can see it was used for some heavy work from a few of the enormous tool bits. Seems like it may be sturdy enough for anything needed.
There's a couple of problems. First I have no manuals. If anyone knows of any writeups for how to use and care for one of these I'd be really happy to hear about them. Second I have to replace the belt. The mechanism the motor uses to rotate the belt (and thus the spindle) has a chunk missing on the outside. And a couple of screws seem missing from the spindle area. But, other than that, it's a very very good buy from what I can tell. The controls are lovely in person.
Spindle type seems to be 2 3/16 10TPI.
On the truck: the driveway is very steep, just missed bottoming out by 1 1/2". The lift gate wobbled like a boat bringing the lathe down: it's much heavier than it looks. They did not skimp on the iron:
Finally down. Note the base of the latch is a bit of a pain for a power jack so he needed a couple sturdy 4x4's:
Here's the holes I'm not sure about:
Some of the tooling:
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