New to me as I only picked it up on Friday.

John Heine model 86 A S, 915mm/3' throat, 250mm/10" stroke. The whole thing is nearly five and a half feet tall and a quick google seems to show it has a six ton rating. Now all I have to do is work out where to mount it up and make some tooling for it.

Andrew

Greetings Farmweld,

          Looks like a slick unit.  Judging by the travel you will have to build a tooling table for your floor mounted unit.  You might consider a hydraulic table design for easy access to the tooling.  I have had a P6 for years and a Tons of tooling and still am developing new things to do with the press.  Have at least 6 tons of fun. 

Forge on and make beautiful things 

Jim

 

 Interesting press with such a tall frame. This opens up some interesting options not usually possible with other presses . 

It seems like the best thing is to fabricate  a heavy table to bring  the work up higher,but still be readily removable for tall jobs.

I make all my tooling where  the combined height of the bottom and top tools  has the ram fully supported by the guides throughout the entire stroke at the heaviest load.

 

Definitely fi a good sized anvil in there! (with the sweet spot right under the ram of course...)

I have to wonder what that press was designed for in the first place.  With only a few inches of supported travel, that's a ton of room underneath the ram for the workpiece.  It had to have some kind of specific industrial purpose.