( SWAG Offroad ) Finger Brake Build for Harbor Freight 20 ton Press
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Level up your fabrication capabilities with this tool! I bought the SWAG Offroad finger press brake for my Harbor Freight 20 ton press. This is the Heavy Duty version with the larger bottom plate. It costs an extra $100 or so to have it pre built by SWAG so of course I opted for the DIY kit to save the coin.
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Guys I did another round of awesome mods to the press here!! ruclips.net/video/GTZmAe9kOMY/видео.html
great video man. I was thinking I may need this eventually. I liked how you showed what went wrong and how you fixed it I think that will help lots of people
Yeah most of my videos I show the problems, that’s half the reason I chose my channel name! Cause something always goes wrong
@@FlawedOffroad I like to see that so I know it’s not 💯 easy you know what to look out for
Now I just gotta get people to watch it🤣
Good recovery.
For anti-spatter, you know they make stuff for that. But it is expensive. I learned to use Walmart cooking spray about a decade ago, and it works great.
Ive since learned to set the welder up a little better which also helps haha
Sweet video, definitely a good tool to have. Most people have a fantasy football team, I have a fantasy garage and this is on the tool list lol.
I had been eyeballing it for a long time and finally said F it im buying it!
The same thing happened to me when I built my brake from swag offroad. Mine is off center and my angle iron is sitting offset a bit. I didn't even check the fingers, I just assumed I didn't center the fingers correctly 😕I'll have to cut everything and redo things the way you did it. It was my first welding project and I thought I messed up but its just poor manufacturing.
The reality is, most bends I make never bottom out in the angle anyway and it probably would be fine. I get a little particular about some stuff especially if I’m putting it together. 🤞 good luck
I would of thought SWAG would of had better quality control on something like that?
At the end of the day it didnt end up being that big of a deal, I was just being particular
Swag makes awesome tools!
Yup they do but it’s just a pity they can’t ship downunder is all.
I got all excited by lots of these videos, couple hundred for the harbour freight press from Harbour Freight & a couple hundred more for the air over hydraulic Jack mod, all sounding good until it works out you can’t buy from Harbour Freight from overseas even if you have a drop ship account address in the USA Coz the press is only available “in store” - you can’t add it to your cart to check out online & pay for it! 🙄👎
Then I got on Swag Offroad website & added the heavy duty finger break and all the accessories & it was getting up there at close to $1000 US, but the online shipping calculator said another $1200 US just to post it downunder & suddenly the finger press is now $2.2k bye the time I get it & that converts to around $🇦🇺3300 and add another I guess $1k US if I was able to buy the press from Harbour Freight & have it drop shipped then pay the international freight to get it downunder & that’s another $1500 bye the time I do the currency conversion.
Suddenly a cheap /(flimsy) Harbour Freight Press - that I have to then turn around an re-engineer to make it anything like useable, and we are talking almost $5000🇦🇺 Pacific shitsvillian micro pesos before it even arrives.
It’s all too hard and I can buy far better larger better engineered shop presses already air over hydraulic ready to got to work straight away without all the mods & re-engineering - from local suppliers downunder for around half what the “US” (but really made in China) products can be landed here for.🙄👎
Yes I know That Swag Off-road says on their website “proudly made in USA but the collar that comes in the kit has “China” clearly stamped on it.
Swag Off-road deletes any customers comments that point this out so it doesn’t become public knowledge - but this leads one to question - “well how much of the rest of the kit is actually made in USA if they will lie about the collar? 🤷♂️
Is the steel US steel or did that come from China and is that cheap Chinesium steel made from recycled sardine tins & about as strong as case hardened plasticine?
And the Harbour Freight Press is definitely Chinese made into the bargain.
I ain’t paying over $5k for Chinese sh!t, id sooner make the entire thing myself out of real steel from the scrap yard, at least I know what it is I’m getting for my $ time & effort.
I think US manufacturing has lost its way if it things it can import cheap crap from China and export it back half way around the world and charge outrageous markups, currency conversions and ludicrous freight costs.
We can just buy the cheap crap direct from China ourselves thanks very much. 🙄👎
It’s becoming a bug bear with me, this insane US Prices on cheap Chinese crap thinking the rest of the worlds going to buy it because it says “proudly made in the USA”🙄
There’s probably a Chinese manufacturing city that’s named USA and they can stamp everything with “made in USA” on it.
Swag Off-road is dreaming if he thinks anyone is going to pay his asking prices and freight costs for his finger break.🙄
In the same way that I would sooner make my own shop press, id sooner make my own finger break.
My 2c
Nothing wrong with what you do for your shop, or the work you do, I’m sure the $ numbers stack up better for you stateside than they do for us here downunder..
The world of manufacturing seems to be dead & buried sadly.
@@ianmoone2359 The only fix is to build it all =yourself=! The more tools you build, the more you CAN build, so make a list of what you need to build what you want and get started, wot?
A friend waited for several years until he could afford to ship his machine shop-in-a-shipping-container to Oz from the US. He figured that he had about 15,000 pounds in there, and the shipping cost $15k, so it was a buck a pound for shipping. UFR. =Shipping to and from Oz SUCKS.= But now he can make all sorts of money working from home.
@@ljprep6250 Yes I bought a used harbor freight press used here on Market Place, for $150aus ($100US), bought the air over hydraulic 20 tonne Jack on Evil Bay, again for another $150Aus.
Added casters feet and my own made press plates - harvested the adjustable lift cylinder as my press ram out of the old Jack etc.
I’ll get out of it for under $500 Aus.
Then I’ll just copy Swags Finger Break and make it myself.
I’m not to proud to give the US postal service the middle finger for their $1200 freight costs, they can go suck a d!ck. 😜😂😂👍🇦🇺
Swag is back peddling so you will not return the merchandise..
Not really. I realize now after using this thing for 2 years that it doesnt have to be as precise as I thought anyway. but its easy enough to line all the fingers up to make it good. I was just being picky
Kind of piss-poor manufacturing and, to top it off, their Customer "Service" basically tells you to redesign & fix it yourself. Guess I'll make my own.....
Eh, it’s a diy kit. You can buy it fully built and save the hassle, I imagine they have a jig and probably have the process down to a science vs me wingin it in the garage. After I sorted out the small details that most ppl wouldn’t have noticed anyway, it went together just fine and has been a great addition to my shop. Thanks for stopping in