Hi Lee. That is a real neat project idea. I imagine, with your niece and husband being new shop owners, you could have enough content material for quite a long time!
Nice option with the magnets - off to the Lathe I go. I brought a very similar press in Australia 6 months ago and I have been slowly adding some tooling as needed. There are Commercial Pressbrakes in smaller sizes for those without the shop or skills or TIME to make one too, I added a 300mm heavy duty one to mine which is fantastic for up to 3mm plate.
Glad to see you followed my suggestion. Now you need to make the angled storage rack from tubing in the upper left inside corner. Where you are storing them will be in the way of the garage door pulley when you run the cable to that side for lifting the platen.😮
I have a magnet permanently fixed on the end my press ram. My steel tools then need no magnets. I also have a magnetic chuck clamped to the press bed for the same reason. Examples can be seen on my rubber blanking and forming demonstrations.
Thanks for the video. You didn't state what material you are using for making these, from the looks of it I'm guessing you are using 4130 or 4140. I'm still having to make myself a set of these as well and was considering just using 4140 and heat treating the ends then tempering to try to keep distortion from happening as much as possible. I have an older model press with a design I haven't seen before in 30 ton and trying to avoid having to turn the ends if I can keep from distorting them.
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Hi Lee. That is a real neat project idea. I imagine, with your niece and husband being new shop owners, you could have enough content material for quite a long time!
That looks like a good idea. Thanks for the video keep on keeping on.
I haven't touched a lathe since I was in high school (and I'm pretty close to your age :-), but somehow watching this stuff is very satisfying....
Thank you Lee for the drifts. I use them everytime I use my press, they are awesome.
Great idea, I need to make a few !
Thats a great project i need to make some, thanks
Nice option with the magnets - off to the Lathe I go. I brought a very similar press in Australia 6 months ago and I have been slowly adding some tooling as needed. There are Commercial Pressbrakes in smaller sizes for those without the shop or skills or TIME to make one too, I added a 300mm heavy duty one to mine which is fantastic for up to 3mm plate.
Glad to see you followed my suggestion. Now you need to make the angled storage rack from tubing in the upper left inside corner. Where you are storing them will be in the way of the garage door pulley when you run the cable to that side for lifting the platen.😮
Excellent idea.
Best wishes from Yorkshire England.
A great idea and well executed!
The parts you made that you called drills, I call punches. Great video look forward to you next and no, I don’t have a press like that.
Very helpful Lee! Thanks!
I have a magnet permanently fixed on the end my press ram. My steel tools then need no magnets. I also have a magnetic chuck clamped to the press bed for the same reason. Examples can be seen on my rubber blanking and forming demonstrations.
You might mention orientation of the magnets should all be the same
I wondered about that...
Thanks for the video.
You didn't state what material you are using for making these, from the looks of it I'm guessing you are using 4130 or 4140. I'm still having to make myself a set of these as well and was considering just using 4140 and heat treating the ends then tempering to try to keep distortion from happening as much as possible. I have an older model press with a design I haven't seen before in 30 ton and trying to avoid having to turn the ends if I can keep from distorting them.
Did you decrease the pockets and magnets before gluing? Do you have links for the glue and the magnets?
How do you keep the drift pins from rusting?
You parkerize them in a half hour