Shop Press
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Shop Press
I'm not sure if this is the place for this or not, so if the mods want to move it's OK.
I am looking for the plans to build a 12 ton shop press. Anybody have a set (pdf format would be great) or knows where I can download a set. Or does someone have a press that they can take the measurements so I can build one?
I am looking for the plans to build a 12 ton shop press. Anybody have a set (pdf format would be great) or knows where I can download a set. Or does someone have a press that they can take the measurements so I can build one?
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Just bought a 12 ton press from Harbor Freight on sale now for $74. It is the taller "A" Frame model so has lots of working room. I don't think you can build one for that money. I bought it to use in bushing replacement.
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I've been looking and I believe that you are right. HF has some good prices, that I probably can't match building it myself.
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A shop press is on my list of needed shop equipment, right after a drill press for which I'm currently shopping.
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I don't know where else they'd put it. Repeated requests by many here for a shop and tools section have thus far fallen on deaf ears, even in that joke they call the steering commitee.
A shop press is on my list of needed shop equipment, right after a drill press for which I'm currently shopping.
A shop press is on my list of needed shop equipment, right after a drill press for which I'm currently shopping.
As far as the shop press, I figure that right now I have access to the equipment at school, but I am going to retire in a couple of years and I don't want to be without one. The drill press I have, in my woodworking shop (second job, shop in the back yard), so I am starting to accumulate the other mechanics tools I'll need.
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