Presses

Looking at getting a small fly press for some light tooling and punching work, and looking at the #0 from oldworldanvils. Was wondering if anyone has one, and if they can put up a photo or two with a soda or pack of smokes for scale.

I saw this over at over at the NWBA site posted by Ries and thought I'd share it here....mb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnx8G...eature=related

Notthing new or amazing, but I thought I'd share some pics of my log splitter conversion. This splitter came with a hinge to swing it upright so I don't have to forge sideways. The ram & anvil are pieces of 3X5" mild steel I had. I may weld tool steel faces on them someday. I don't know if I really needed guides on the ram, but the splitter wedge has guides, so I copied them, more or less.

Thought this might be interesting to some of you. We rebuild a lot of hammers and presses at my company - This is a photo montage of a 2500 ton ram and pitman we overhauled last month. The assembly weighs about 16 ton all up. The clearance on the bronze bush to the crankshaft is 0.016" max when done! The bolts are shrunk in place with heating elements to give the correct pre-tension. All the surfaces have to be in 'bed' contact or the assembly will not last very long in service! you can see we extensively use chalk and blue to check contact in some of the photos. The bearings you can see being removed at the start of the video have been in about 5 years, you can se…

I was lucky to find a used Adams Fly Press with the stand (#2 or #3 by the size I guess) in great shape. I was cleaning it up and I had some questions that I was needing wisdom on. 1. How do I get the last owners no shoulder tool holder out of the ram. It is wedged and galled in there even after I removed the set serews. 2. How do I restore the press? Do I even need to? The grease is kind of old, so I thought about removing it all and replacing it. I Thank you all in advance!

A few weeks ago I bought a 5 ton Benhmaster punchpress for under $150. The press was in pretty good shape but there were parts missing. The part that holds the 1" punches was missing along with the die plate. I figured no big deal and for that price I couldn't pass it up. I took it all apart and did the electrolysis thing which I am hooked on now for cleaning up old machinery. It sure beats the old wire brush. Today I started making the parts that were missing. The first was the part that holds the punches. It started out as a piece of 1 ½ square that was forged to 1 X 1 ½ to make the blank. Then annealed and machined. The rest is history. Five hours of work o…

I bought a decent hydraulic press yesterday and I'm trying to find a little information on it. The only identifying marks I've found on the press itself is a tag that says "Jett Press." The lettering is kind of pealing off and there may have been more, nothing I can see. If anyone has any info on this press or what it might have been used for that would be really helpful. It may be modified to fit my needs, but I'm always curious about machines and their history. Some interesting things of note: The press has removable heating rods in the pressing platforms, I assume to keep them from acting as a heat sink. It also has two control panels one with a timer for 0-6…

Hi all, I found this press on CL (http://hartford.craigslist.org/tls/3041834577.html) and I'm heading over to see it tomorrow. For the price It seems well worth it, although I figure I'll probably upgrade or replace some stuff. I was hoping to get a more experienced eye's opinion on it, just to make sure I'm not deluding myself. Thanks :).

We are thinking about a fly press for hot punching..Stock would be 1" to 2", the punch size would be more of slitter than a punch so your really hot cutting instead of really punching..Would a # 3or #4 be big enough? What do you think? keep in mind it dosnt have to do it in one heat.. Thanks

Hi guys, I'm interested in building a horizontal press like these: http://www.vansantent.com/stierli_benders.htm http://www.jd2.com/c-20-horizontal-press.aspx http://www.bifabuk.co.uk/press-brakes/horizontal-press-brakes.php Anyone ever done it? There isn't much out there in internet land about their construction (under the cover panels). I'd like to build a fairly big one - say 100T. Its the guides etc that I'm wondering about. Any thoughts on the best way to approach it? Cheers, Al.

So I'm about to start building my press, and am slightly confused by the recommendation to not use NPT/NPTF fittings on the hydraulic system. Pretty much everything new you read on hydraulics now recommends against using these fittings as they are prone to leaks, so I was planning on getting hoses made with JIC 37 degree flares. However, ALL of the components I ordered (and pretty much all of the ones I looked at in various places around the internet) have NPT or NPTF ports. If I have to use hose fittings that are JIC 37 on one side and NPT or NPTF on the other, doesn't this defeat the purpose? Am I missing something here? I ask mainly because I would prefer to use schedu…

I bought a punch press from a factory for $40. As is its just about useless for anything I I do, but the parts alone seemed like a good value for my money. So what can I make it into? I'd take like another press in the shop but I think the cylinder is a little small -and although its probably got more umph than my HF 12 ton bottle jack air over hydraulic setup now. Any ideas?? J Edit: These pictures come up very large on the screen, scroll down a few replies for smaller versions. I'll leave these here just in case someone wants to read the model numbers or examine the crystaline structure of lead oxide a little. lol

I have spent quite a bit of time looking at power packs and their requirements . and in the mean time have purchased a few ebay bargains . I plummed in a 7.5 hp power pack to my press . it puts out 6gpm (measured from ram speed 4 inch ram at 2 inch per second) and will easily hit 3000 psi without drawing too many amps for the motor rating, the motor does however strain but it is only momentary I think running it at 3000psi full time would be a problem in the long run. when I look up the tables the requirement for that flow and pressure is 12.3 hp..... so are the tables incredibly conservative ? or should I be running a bigger motor?

I saw a video a while back with a guy that had a foot powered rosebud torch that had an idle flame and when he stepped on the pedal it would fire up nice and hot. He'd go back and forth from his torch to the flypress, the foot pedal attachment looked like a real fuel saver. Anyone know the name of that style torch? My google-Fu is weak on this one.

Followed me home the other night. Huge with a slow thread, but way cheap and in pristine shape. 2-3/4" screw with 42" flywheel. I'll be happily making tooling while the snow blows outside this winter....

This is a carry over from the HT section and a thread on there. Basically we made a set of swages for our press and it has saved us approx 3 heats in the finishing stages of these eye bolts. They are 4340 as forged material, and they are made to swage to 150mm dia. Prior to making these, we were rough rounding these eye bolts under plain dies in the press and it took ages to get a good hammer like finish. With these swages we forge to a rough (and I mean rough) 150 oct then get a heat on the whole shank, have the dies in the press and one heat later they are on the floor cooling off. As I was taught when I was an apprentice, "Phil the quicker you can get your job int…

Hi guys, Well, after spending six and a half hours forging out a san mai 9 inch Chefs knife, I realized I need a forging press. Since money is tight I think I'm going to either build one or make something work. Now comes my question... Sears has an electric hydraulic 7 ton log splitter for around $398. This is much more feasable than $1000 and up, so do you guys think 7 tons would be enough to do some light pattern welding and drawing out and such? If not, why, and what is the minimum tonnage I would need. Thanks, Adam

Could one be modded at the pressing ends and used for forge work?

my son is gearing up and has an "opportunity" to buy an old EE Garvin punch press, it has a fixed die to punch only 1/2" sq holes. I used to work in a punch factory, (50 machines ) and I think my senile old brain remembers "shoe dies " so we could change punch and die sizes in the same unit. I have a load of H4 punches and dies, anyone have an old piece of something laying around that I can modify ? The clearance of the machine is 6 3/4" from base to ram. I'm not sure what size the whatchamacallit on the top is ( maybe its a 1 1/2" goezinta ) The present piece has been welded and I'm not at liberty to disassemble it until he buys it,( or doesn't )

I finaly got to taking my old screw press apart for cleaning and retooling.(awesome tool adapter from msmw.com -Thanks Jim ) It was covered with hundred year old goop. My question is what are your sugestions for best lube to use on screw. Thanks

Everyone seemed to be having so much fun with their hydraulic presses that I finally decided to pull mine out of the corner and give it a try. My intent was to make a swage by pusing in a 1" round fuller into some 5160. It didn't exactly work out how I had planned: I was watching the work, not the frame, and I was pretty disappointed that the jack was barely putting a dent in my steel...or at least the steel where I wanted the dent. I guess sometimes 12 != 12. don

I needed a solution to quickly make repetitive cold 90 degree angle bends in doubled 1/4" and 5/16" round stock. Saw this design elsewhere on the web and decided to make one for my P5 press. It really works, You can lower the top tool down to the 1/4" round stock, spin the flywheel and it bends with ease. The 5/16" round stock needs a little more oomph. I previously used a torch and jig to make these bends and will save on gas and time with the flypress. Allen

hey guys ive got a little question i need to ask,im interested in small presses and i was wondering if its possible to make a small press some how using an electic motor to force the ram down thanx Mike ps:ive searched it and cant find ANYTHING on the subject

Hi guys I am wondering if is possible to make an press-for blacksmith of scrap material?? (I have a lot of el.engines from industry so...):rolleyes:

It was made by standard machine in auburn RI. screw may be a little slow but i will have fun figureing out things to do with it. Table size: 22" x 14" Throat: 7-1/2" Full stroke: approximately 11" Stroke per one revolution: 1-3/4" Shut height: 1-3/4" Hole in bed: 9-1/2" x 3-1/2" Bore in ram: 1-1/2" Wheel diameter: 48" Overall size: 39" x 36" x 75" high crane said it weighs 2800