Thank you. About 7-8 hours so far. But time flies when your havin fun. I'll post the results here when it is cleaned up and tested. Doug.
OK, How about anyone ever rework or change their shop press frame to handle more tonage? I had a 10 ton press years ago ans sold it in 1988. Just bought a Harbor Fright 20 ton. Have already started to change it to become a 45 ton air over hyd.Will cut slots in the the side posts to be able to push drive shafts and tractor radius rods thtu for straighting. Have added steel caster wheels and some bracing. What have you Guys and Gals changed on your press? As alway pictures always help. Thanks again to all for your time and talent
And, it looks like you're working w/ a manually controlled mill, not a CNC machine -- right? If so, that makes it even cooler!!!
For body sheetmetal you can make dies that will punch out just a few pieces from bondo! I saw the ford script logo punched into sheetmetal half a dozen times using bondo with a 1/4 inch metal plate backer.The guy spread a layer of bondo about a 1/2 inch thick over both sides of the script and set a piece of plate on top before the bondo hardened he did this on the inside and outside of the piece of ford panel so he had positive and negative profiles of the script, after that the drilled both plates so he could put alignment pins in the ends outside of the area covered by the sheet metal he wanted to punch,He then put the sandwich of dies and sheetmetal into a press he made using a hand pumped bottle jack and embossed the logo into the new panels I'm told you can do it with concrete dies also!Your not going to do production runs with these dies but if you only want a couple small parts its worth a try!you can carve or machine some from MDF or oak also again good for only a few pieces.I've thought about trying it with Coriander (sp?) counter top material it's some real tough stuff!
Applies to sheetmetal shaping too. Doug. Just in case I change my signature again, for those coming to this thread later on. Hitting it with a hammer is easy. Hitting it in the right spot is hard.
Thanks Bob.Wish we could see some pictures of small Jig's and fixtures used in press work also. Maybe some home made press plates.
Thread won't die if it gets contributed to, but endlessly bumping it is a bit droll. Ask questions or try and do some of these pressings on your own and report back. Make the thread work for it's celebrity.
Don't stop bumping because one guy has a snit. Interesting thread that has had more added after you have bumped it before. I always love guys that complain about a threads content but have nothing useful to add themselves.
This is the reason that the HAMB needs to be organized in sections like Shop Tools, Metalwork, Painting, etc. it's too hard to keep up with and find threads you are interested in. Yeah, I know about "subscribed".
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