Hot Rods Anyone know what this tool is?

I know its a 100000 lb press, but what is it for and who made it? The work surfce is si small, and the name plate is shot. I tried to put it on metalmeet, but the site just keeps checking if I am a robot, and wont let me in.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Harry-W-Di...s-Machine-230V-3-Phase-60-Hz-9A-/162991749448

 

Terminal crimper for wiring your hot rod?

 

It looks like it may have been used for some sort of lab testing. It's certainly not a production piece of machinery.

 

I second that it’s a testing machine of some sort.
Don’t stick your finger in the fixture.

 

The seller is just reading the name plate, he doesn’t know what it’s for either, but maybe someone will and buy it!!!!

 

Make a cool tachometer.

 

or a neat finger compression tester for car thieves.

 

It’s a sample press for x-ray fluorescence analysis

 

C-clamp. Even though it's partially obscured by that huge tester thing...I can see it's a c-clamp.

 

Can crack even the hardest nuts.

 

belonged to the Three Stooges....Curly hated that thing....

 

It was in a shop that did fab work, it was next to a big rotary shear and a very big brake that would do 1/2 "plate. It has a 1 inch diameter ram, I just cant figure what they were doing with it.

 

It was not likely used in a shop. It's a piece of lab equipment used for some sort of test.

 

I think that was the press that eliminated the Terminator.

 

Very powerful crimp or shear tool.

 

I wonder if it could be repurposed as an Iron Worker.
Could punch a hole in about anything, I’d think.

 

Actually the first swiss cheese machine...those swiss make some hard cheese...ha ha

 

87 Viewed in the past 24 hours. That sounds pretty HAMB-ee.

The seller last updated it more than a year ago...I 'spose he pulled that $1150 out of his arse also...

 

It’s a pill press !
What better place to hide your clandestine drug operation but in a noisy dirty metal fab shop !

this guy was the heisnburg of Spokane !

breaking bad on another level




Or on a serious note , could of been used to make parts for an old dodge

 

Ok its the tooth paste tube sqeezy thingy...saves money ..after 2000 years of use...a Rube Goldberg invention

 

Seats the bearing in muffler bearings for Chebbies !

 

On another note, I guess you are confirmed to be a robot...

 

How about more pictures, the one side seems to have some sort of controls maybe, can't see it??
Year's ago when I was a Press Operator 30 ton up to 250 ton, and Large Housing Spot Welder, the machines looked similar in the Press Room but bigger and the Large Housing Spot Welder we named "Big Bertha" were from the 1940's one as old as WWI.

More pictures please...

 

If the fab shop made any material handling type of hooks or something, maybe it's a load tester.

Gary

 

Installs lids on prescription pill bottles for seniors.

 

Adam Bradley spitz-en-sparken, so it dates to no later than 1910.
Acco Helicoid gauges were bought out by Emerson. Not sure when they stopped making them.
What does the blue busted-up looking label on the top say? A something... Chicago? Colorado? Serial number...

Cheers,
Harv

 

I don’t know what they were doing with it but as I said before it’s a sample press for x-ray fluorescence analysis.
https://angstrom-inc.com/4451ae-pellet-press/

How it’s used

 

Oneball for the win. this is the lowdown on a newer model from Dietert who are still in business. https://www.dietertlab.com/index.html

 

I agree with @Budget36. Maybe repurposed as a hole punch.