a whole bunch of punches followed me home from work. S-1 tool steel punches. they are shock resistant! we had a meeting at work last night about someone not assembling a press correctly before starting it up. they passed around a punch that had come out while running. it was a 3/4" shank bent about 30 degrees.....but it didnt shatter.
my computer didn't want to upload all the pictures.....I had a picture of one of the 8 drums of punches that followed me home. I wish I had taken a picture of them all loaded in my truck on 2 wooden skids. My toyota pickup was on its bumpstops.....luckily it was only about a mile to my house to unload 3 drums, the rest went to my storage unit. I still had trouble driving the truck that loaded down over the WV mountains.
Rob/SLOB
old fly press that I've had kicking around about 10 years. almost threw it out several times (before I was interested in blacksmithing.) in storage until I get a place to work.
