What can you do with an arbor press?

Martin

Mart> Robert Sw>> Sphero,

Seems like it is only that one. Or it is new.

Mart> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 14:26:33 -0800 (PST), with neither quill nor qualm,

I have a set of punches and dies, and I just plan to make a pair of holders and some kind of alignment mechanism.

Alan

Paint one, and find out for yourself. ;-)

No need for paint, just gather them up from the driveway where they have been spread to get the hulls knocked loose. Gerry :-)} London, Canada

my grandfather used to husk black walnuts that way, put them on the driveway. i tried that this past fall, the squirrels stole EVERY LAST ONE of them. all i had was a pile of hulls.

b.w.

Pressing insulation displacement cable connectors onto ribbon cable. They all call for custom tooling of course, but if you only plan to do a few of that style you can make up your own tooling just fancy enough to do what you need - light strap and angle steel and a few tack welds to hold it all in position. As long as both halves stay parallel and the thrust goes straight down, it works...

They did you a favor. You're just supposed to use the hulls. At least that was what MY grandfather used. They used the walnuts in cakes and to snack on, and collected the hulls to patch their dirt road.

You missed the smiley. My grandfather had a huge cast iron pot where he tossed them for the outer shell to rot, and collect the walnut oil. It always bugged me that he threw away gallons of walnut oil, every year.

ROCKETS!

Keyway broaching, spline broaching, hex and square broaching. Spring compressor for some mechanical assembly jobs. The list goes on and on and is only limited by your imagination. Steve

I use mine to modulate or sort of amplify hammer blows. I recently forged the end of a bit of tubing very neatly closed and flat by pressing the part previously flattened in a vise between the ram and a spacer block, and then whacking the ram with a sledge while the pressure was still applied. The result was almost as if the sides of tubing were brazed together, it was that tightly closed. Much better results than either method alone; truly a synergetic combination.

You could lathe drill the ram in a four-jaw chuck to hold your stamps and add a cross pin to align them for very neat stamping of letters and numbers.

The ram has two ends and on mine I have one slightly crowned while the other is dead flat. YMMV; whatever two uses you have.

Doug Goncz Replikon Research Seven Corners, VA 22044-0394.

I wonder how well this would scale up to 2".......

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire. Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us) off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the s*it out of you for torturing the cat." Gunner

Then you can pick them up and talk about your clever find, and post here asking people if a computer can be used for anything.

Schnitzel! I've use my 60 ton Bliss.

If a clarinet cracks they use to lathe out a band around the body of the instrument then shrink a metal band flush into the body with an arbor press.

LLB

They work really well for pressing arbors.

I take it an adapter is necessary for pressing pergolas?

--Winston

I did all the custom cables for Juniors "showpiece" computer with two lengths of 1/4" Plexiglas hinged at one end, and a large pair of channel locks. Gerry :-)} London, Canada