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269392 Michael Suwczinsky <nicknaylo@g...> 2019‑11‑12 Small, hopefully useful, press
Gentle Galoots,
I mostly look for pictures on CL Garage/Estate sale listings, though a
description of 'garage/basement full of tools' will always pierce the haze
of baby clothes and exercise gear.  The picture on this sale in what is
absolutely the WORST part of Berkeley for parking piqued my interest enough
to circle the block 3 times. The size so it was a guess. Seller is a metal
worker, progressively working smaller down to jewelry now, in a tiny garage
shop full of ring rollers and open throated shears.

dragged out from under the bench, he bought it years ago, and promptly
built an all thread and bottle jack press.
I grabbed it for a Jackson, got into a nice convo with a kid who's done a
little blacksmithiing with a local DIY youth camp and it ready, according
to his mom, to move up to the industrial arts co op in Oakland.

Anyway, dragged the press, I'm assuming its a press, home, chain hoisted it
up to a convenient height, mostly just to play with a new chain hoist.
loosened up the stops and spun it.

Spins easily, the ram moved an inch and a quarter and reciprocates as long
as you spin the wheel.  the tool holder will take 5/8 round so I'll
probably pick up some drill rod and make some tooling.  With such a limited
throw, I doubt I can use this for more than pressing in the tab on bottle
openers but its a neat piece of cast iron.
Not a mark on it, and I can't think of a group better suited to ID'ing this
contraption. Multiple searches have not turned up anything, but I'm
probably using the wrong term.

Thanks in advance for any insight

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10735775@N.../49050268003/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/10735775@N.../49050773551/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10735775@N.../49050787696/
-- 
Michael
269393 Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> 2019‑11‑12 Re: Small, hopefully useful, press
Michael

Dont know what it does, but regardless, it is sure serious about it

Ed Minch
269394 Erik Levin 2019‑11‑12 Re: Small, hopefully useful, press
I'm at work so I can't look at the pics, but from the description, I would
conjecture either a punch press (you use a punch and die to punch work from
strip metal- these are quite common in many sizes, and show up cheap third hand,
as people buy them based on the high specified force without understanding that
they are not suitable as a shop press) or a small stamping press.


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269395 KEVIN FOLEY <kevin.m.foley@c...> 2019‑11‑12 Re: Small, hopefully useful, press
Michael,

It looks like an arbor press to me.

Kevin
269396 Erik Levin 2019‑11‑12 Re: Small, hopefully useful, press
Looked at the pics and vid. 


High confidence that it is a small punch press, though I don't recognize the
particular model.


The slots to either side of the platten are to bolt down the die plate, the slot
in the middle is for the part to drop. This might be used for small sheet parts
like washers and gaskets, or for forming small sheet articles like small tins.

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269397 Peter McBride <peter_mcbride@b...> 2019‑11‑12 Re: Small, hopefully useful, press
Michael,
These small presses were used by a variety of trades, including paper, 
leather, metal and foil embossing, as well as jewellery.
I've a few hundred sets of punches and dies for such a tool. Used for 
pressing out all kinds of jewellery components.
The smaller items would be able to be done on a small press like yours. 
These would include small ring and brooch shoulders that are about 3-4mm 
x 1-2mm in size.
Here are some images and a video of me making gallery wire using one set 
of about 8 I have.
Gallery wire is a strip of pieced metal, brought round and soldered to 
form the setting with prongs to set a gemstone.
Once set up properly, it would go much faster than my attempt here, hehehe.

http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire03.jpg

http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire02.jpg

http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire01.jpg

https://youtu.be/hQ4fNoxOV-g

Cheers,
Peter
In Main Ridge, VIC, AUST.
269398 Michael Suwczinsky <nicknaylo@g...> 2019‑11‑13 Re: Small, hopefully useful, press
Thank you everyone for the information on my new toy!  I'm not quite sure
how I'll fit this into my rather crude blacksmithing setup. At the moment,
I think a ball punch for the lifting tabs on bottle openers (and with so
much good beer in cans now!) and maybe a narrow cutting tool for incising
lines on hot work.

I just knew this group would come through in record time.

Thank you,

Michael

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 3:39 PM Peter McBride 
wrote:

> Michael,
> These small presses were used by a variety of trades, including paper,
> leather, metal and foil embossing, as well as jewellery.
> I've a few hundred sets of punches and dies for such a tool. Used for
> pressing out all kinds of jewellery components.
> The smaller items would be able to be done on a small press like yours.
> These would include small ring and brooch shoulders that are about 3-4mm
> x 1-2mm in size.
> Here are some images and a video of me making gallery wire using one set
> of about 8 I have.
> Gallery wire is a strip of pieced metal, brought round and soldered to
> form the setting with prongs to set a gemstone.
> Once set up properly, it would go much faster than my attempt here, hehehe.
>
> http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire03.jpg
>
> http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire02.jpg
>
> http://www.petermcbride.com/temp/images1/gallery%20wire/gallery_wire01.jpg
>
> https://youtu.be/hQ4fNoxOV-g
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
> In Main Ridge, VIC, AUST.
>
> On 13-Nov-19 5:15 AM, Michael Suwczinsky wrote:
> > little blacksmithiing with a local DIY youth camp and it ready, according
> > to his mom, to move up to the industrial arts co op in Oakland.
> >
> > Anyway, dragged the press, I'm assuming its a press, home, chain hoisted
> it
> > up to a convenient height, mostly just to play with a new chain hoist.
> > loosened up the stops and spun it.
> >
> >
>


-- 
Michael

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