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Well the Danly I understand is really for hydraulic presses but it was cheap enough on eBay I couldn't resist. Just made up a stub to fit the press head.
It came with some hex shaped crimping tools which I thought I might either modify or use for hoses, electrical connections etc.
But at the moment, all it's doing is this
It came with some hex shaped crimping tools which I thought I might either modify or use for hoses, electrical connections etc.
But at the moment, all it's doing is this
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Are you sure you couldn't have found a larger tool to try first off?
TWENTY EIGHT kilograms!
Half a metre square block of inch and a quarter ground flat steel.
With another one on top.
Postman must be wondering wtf is going on. Only just took delivery of the ball weights
Oh and some huge guillotine blades.
Wasted quite a bit of time on the first design before realising, I don't need to pivot the blade.
Should probably make a bender first but tbh, when I'm in the workshop I spend most of my time looking for new things to squash. I was quite excited about the idea of building an A3 size press!
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Good grief. That's over a sack of spuds in weight.
Postman must be wondering wtf is going on. Only just took delivery of the ball weights
Have you checked the postie still has both of his, after lugging those around?
I've been seriously resisting that urge, so far. There is a bit of copper I'm wanting to use as a shim which is a bit too thick currently though. Edit: p.s: I'm not suggesting you check the postie in the cough and drop type manner.
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I am now wanting a flypress.
I can see so many ways of doing 'stuff'.
Get one. You know you want to.
For all round versatility, I think they're the best choice in the press family. I only had room for one, realistically, and out of arbor, fly and hydraulic, fly was the one which I thought would suit me best.
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bet the posty wishes he had oneAre you sure you couldn't have found a larger tool to try first off?
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Plenty chaepish ones on the famous auction site, but as with all things/bargains a bit too far away.Get one. You know you want to.
For all round versatility, I think they're the best choice in the press family. I only had room for one, realistically, and out of arbor, fly and hydraulic, fly was the one which I thought would suit me best.
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Plenty chaepish ones on the famous auction site, but as with all things/bargains a bit too far away.
Distance is the least of your worries collecting one of these things. It's shifting it into the van that's the issue. Then you can take a nice long break driving it back before having to shift that great lump of iron out of the van and into a workshop. I did mine in three stages over a number of days!
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nice T4Distance is the least of your worries collecting one of these things. It's shifting it into the van that's the issue. Then you can take a nice long break driving it back before having to shift that great lump of iron out of the van and into a workshop. I did mine in three stages over a number of days!
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I bought my Sweeney+Blocksidge 6A about 10 years ago, and brought it home in the back of my Carlton estate.
loaded it with an engine hoist.
slid it out of the boot onto a wheelbarrow, then up the garden path.
It took four of us to lift it onto my bench.
The bench collapsed last year
It's been sat on the floor ever since.
loaded it with an engine hoist.
slid it out of the boot onto a wheelbarrow, then up the garden path.
It took four of us to lift it onto my bench.
The bench collapsed last year
It's been sat on the floor ever since.
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Plenty chaepish ones on the famous auction site, but as with all things/bargains a bit too far away.
Almost always the case. It's as if that site is there just to tempt people and then pee them off.
Even that one of mine is beyond my full lifting abilities, and it's not a massive one. They're no lightweights, are they. Had to keep lifting/tipping a bit then chocking this one, to get it up onto that stand.
The bench collapsed last year
It's been sat on the floor ever since.
An instant collapse, or did you get advance warning that it was on its way and have chance to get the press off before it went completely?
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A slow, stately collapse where it slowly drifted sideways until it was supported by the wooden crate/tool boxes which were underneath.
slid the press off down a well supported scaff board - i think that'll be how it's put back up on the new bench.
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Really needs to be on a steel stand bolted to the ground. Use one in anger and all that torque you generate turning the large weights wants to spin the whole thing around.
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