NeatGuy Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Any ideas what this machine is used for ??? It operates like a punch press, single stroke, but if you hold your foot down it cycle continously. There is a large screw that adjusts the hight of the lower table. The machine is very nicely made. I feel compelled to find a use for it as a blacksmithing tool. brad Quote
Iron Falcon 72 Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Smashing stuff?? :-) Seriously though did you do a Google for the name? Quote
Sam Thompson Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Mansfeld of Leipzig manufacture printing machinery Yes, I googled them! Quote
Jacques Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 I don't know much about printing machines but when I saw it my first thoughts were that it could possibly be an embossing machine. As for the metal application it would seem to make a very nice planishing hammer for sheetmetalwork if you replace the table and top tool. I wouldn't mind having something like that. Quote
saintjohnbarleycorn Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 I wouldn't think that it is set up for heavy work the planishing idea sounds good. Quote
NeatGuy Posted March 1, 2009 Author Posted March 1, 2009 The guy who currently owns it uses it to squish beer cans. The machine has too much of a stroke and does not run fast enough to planish effectively. I was thinking of removing the lower table and having a sleeve with a square hole inserted into it kind of like the lower tool holder of a Pullmax nibbler. Not sure how much I would be willing to pay though ... so many tools and so little money forces me to make hard decision. brad Quote
ChrisB Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 Those were used by the Italian Army to make pizzas for the troops during WW2. A battalion of personal pizzas no problem... Quote
MLMartin Posted March 1, 2009 Posted March 1, 2009 well if its a press you could make cookie cutter dies and use it to cut things like thin wood, leather patterns, cloth, and rubber sheet. if you needed to cut tones of the same thing that is Quote
bigjohn Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 That is most assuredly a world class walnut cracking machine. You could mail it to me and I'll send a pound of walnuts in return. Quote
chyancarrek Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 Years ago a buddy of mine had an "old school" printshop - Letterpresses, Linotype hot type machine, manual stitchers etc. He had a machine similar to the picture for doing deep (multi-sheet) die-cutting. His was set up with a square table which accepted jigs for accurate placement of the dies. I wonder if this machine is something along those lines? I'd love to have it for doing pre-forms on my hammered vessel work! Quote
Judson Yaggy Posted March 2, 2009 Posted March 2, 2009 The dies look like those on one of the leather harness hammering machines shown in Pounding Out The Profits. Quote
Stiffy Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 It is used I think to stamp the backbones of books to apply gold foil. Quote
Hofi Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 This excentric prerss was used to cut lether patern with assoeted dies in our small lether factory. the stroke is all ways the same but the stage hight is adjusted with the wheel on the bottom HOFI Quote
NeatGuy Posted March 6, 2009 Author Posted March 6, 2009 Thanks ... would you happen to know the tonage rating ??? brad Quote
Hofi Posted March 6, 2009 Posted March 6, 2009 There are many sizes of this type press so I cannot answer the question. I only saw it working. Iis a very dengerous machin ! it is foot opperated and many people dameged sevirly one hand because of it. If you are going to use the press for your production pay attention that both hands ar out of the ramm place!! and do not let children to play with!!!!!!!!! HOFI Quote
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