August 20, 20214 yr So if you got to choose between a treadle hammer and a fly press which one would you pick and why. For a back story I’ve come into enough money to purchase one or the other. thanks in advance.
August 20, 20214 yr Buy the fly press. No question. The reason is simple: you can build a treadle hammer easily enough, but it's almost impossible to build a fly press. I absolutely love my treadle hammer and use it all the time, and it has served me extremely well despite the fact that I'm a middling fabricator at best. If I can do it, you can probably do it to. There's also a lot of great stuff you can do with a fly press that you can't do or that's a lot harder to do under the treadle hammer. Buy the fly press.
August 20, 20214 yr I support JHCC's premise. My 5 ton flypress gets used for so many different projects. It is a great mechanics tool, and not only can one aggressively work metals hot or cold, but also with delicacy and finesse.... Sure would like to see a pic or five of that flypress... Robert Taylor
August 20, 20214 yr Here's one a lot like mine: (Better picture than I have of mine). Of course with the blasted "Buyer's Reaming" + paying a rigger to load it in my pickup mine ran the better part of US$100. One of the nicest things about them is that they are *quiet*!
January 9Jan 9 On 8/20/2021 at 8:22 PM, David Mchone said: So if you got to choose between a treadle hammer and a fly press which one would you pick and why. For a back story I’ve come into enough money to purchase one or the other. thanks in advance. If you are choosing between a hammer and a fly press (hand press), the right choice depends on what exactly you are going to do.
January 9Jan 9 Welcome aboard Bacus, glad to have you. The post you're replying to is about 4 1/2 years old. That's okay though, good information if good information. Do you have something to tell us about how to select one over the other? We're all pretty well versed in "it depends" as an answer, what it depends on is always something to store in the old files. How is summer going down there? We're in the grips of a cold snap here though it's climbed all the way to 1f for right now, we're supposed to get another good dump of snow Saturday and Sunday. It was -24F @ 1am this morning a few degrees colder last night. -20 is where the F and C scales cross. Frosty The Lucky.
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