Economy Shop Press- How To Build

[HANK METZ]

A handy tool (http://people.delphiforums.com/perristalsis/Shop_Press/Economy_Shop_Press.htm) to have around the shop.

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- Beachside Hank
Improvise, adapt, overcome; the essence of true craftsmanship.

[Mike Cutler]

Nice work Hank!

Looks like a perfectly usable bearing press to me.

[Steve Rozmiarek]

Looks a heck of a lot better than most of the junk for sale out there masquerading as a press, nice work!

[Mike Heidrick]

Interesting you choose a threaded pipe for the tooling in a press application. Do you risk ruining the threads?

[Lornie McCullough]

".....but not having a shop press is now unthinkable in my workshop."

I especially like that it can be stowed away without a huge footprint.....

I guess now I have to make one..... Thank you!!!

Lornie

[HANK METZ]

Interesting you choose a threaded pipe for the tooling in a press application. Do you risk ruining the threads?



I chose the pipe because it is so adaptable to many toolmaking and machinery designs, look to any Popular Mechanics magazine from the '40's through the '60's, heck they built metalworking lathes, bandsaws, sanders, etc from the stuff. Cheap too!

- Beachside Hank
Improvise, adapt, overcome; the essence of true craftsmanship.