HF 20 Ton Shop Press Modifications and Improvements
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- A quick look at some of the modifications and improvements I've made to my Harbor Freight 20 Ton Shop Press. See how easy it is improve the functionality and safety of these versatile shop tools.
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- Hand Winch w/Cable Amazon amzn.to/2MvwKmW
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First time seeing the winch upgrade. Excellent idea!
Wish I could take credit for that one...Got the idea from a RUclips video long before I started posting my own
boat winch is a very smart idea. I've struggled many times...adjusting the bed.
Same here..
Excellent idea on the winch setup!
Thanks!
I have seen many videos on the same subject. Thank God you know how to use a tripod. Your camera work makes it easy to follow what you are saying.
Thanks for watching!
When I saw the winch setup I was sold. I knew if I didn't sub to you I would have to kick my own butt. That is one of the slickest setups I have ever seen. And I was going to just weld 1/4 inch plates to the bottom for casters but you presented me with a powerful argument in favor of the caster stand for brake storage which made me rethink everthing and I can happily say I scrapped my plans for the ones you had for the simple fact that yours were quite frankly superior. And that's a win in my book. Now that I've engaged in dangerous levels of brown-nosing I'll show myself out.
I'd say the level of brown-nosing was just enough 🤣....Thanks for watching!
Be adding that winch to mine, awesome idea!
I wish I could take credit for that one...I saw someone else do it awhile ago and decided to try it out
The winch is a great improvement. Smart idea .👍👍👍👍👍
Yeah, the winch has made things so much easier, especially when I have my homemade metal brake on there...now I don't have to take the metal brake off to adjust the table height. Really saves time...and my back lol
MoonBuilt Garage Great idea. Think I’m. gonna put one on my press. Thanks for sharing it in the video.
Great idea for the winch
I love it! I just wish I could take credit for it
I had the 12 ton , Bought the 20 today had a coupon $153 out the door. Got the winch too great Idea! thanks for the info
Walt
Nice! Careful..the winch will spoil ya lol
Thanks for the ideas, great job
Thanks for watching!
That was genius! Great ideas!
Thanks!
Thanks for great ideas
Glad you like them!
The winch is brilliant !
Thanks. I wish I could take credit for that idea, but I saw it on here a while back, and decided I would add a winch when I got a press.
Thanks for your time doing the video's. Keep doing the dodge D100 videos 👍
Joe H thanks for the comment. I'm really enjoying that old truck, and that's the whole reason I started this channel...there aren't a lot of people showing them.
Great stuff
Thanks!
Nice job and you added 2 features I haven't seen on other channels. The winch and the base shelf with castors. Fron my experience with HF castors I would have gone larger, 4 inch or greater. My shop gets extension cords and air hoses on the floor and a bigger caster usually rolls over those blockages.
I rarely need to move it, so these work great. I avoid rolling things over extension cords...they tend to short out when that happens
i CAN SEE THAT HAPPENING! AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR WELL DONE POSTING.
AlrightyThen , Think HF watches youtube videos , The new press has the a lift handle on each side of the lift beam ,so its just drill a hole and eyelets for the cable, the beam lip extends out at the top front making it difficult for the winch ratchet handle to attach , so I used a metric coupler andcut a same size metric bolt/all thread to extend the shaft,you have to square off the bolt with a grinder on each side of the bolt so the handle notch fits on .Thanks for your help ,Walt
Nice!
Thanks!
Nice mods < i like the winch def.........
Thanks. The winch has been the best mod.
The winch is genius!
Wish I could take credit for the idea
Like wench idea , I added a hand knob/lever to the to the Jack release deal.
Nice! Thanks
You bet!
Awesome Moon《☆》I see the HF press @$149. Nice upgrades🤓👍🏾 I'll have to get back to see what's going on with the D100 :*: Greetings from💦Florida🤳my friend🤓🗣🔊☮✌👍🏾
Cool, thanks! The D100 is on hold for now unfortunately...I'm overseas, and with all the chaos going on it may be a few months, but as soon as I'm able I have some plans for that thing
wow ....coming along fine, did you respool the cable to the crank wheel , I want to run the left line to the other side of the wheel like the factory set up it does not seem like its gonna work , any suggestions ?you can always call on me for sheet metal and paint tips
I did. I determined how much cable I was going to need on the short-side, and cut the cable to length, then re-spooled the remainder for the other side. Effectively running two separate cables on one winch.
On your valve to release presure i used a pull start off of a lawnmower just knocked the pin out at the cylinder marked were to drill the hole put it back in place put the pin into lock it in place it was free were you used a wench i used the table of cylinder with some old straps just bring it down a little then hook my straps releace presure on jack pull the pins activate jack to go down to the level you need if you need more space just lengthen your strap that way you dont have more weight on your press.
Tony, thanks for the input. I've been looking for something for the pressure relief valve, and have been trying out several options...I just haven't found one yet that I really like.
I never thought about straps to raise/lower the table. I had the winch on-hand from a utility trailer I was going to refurbish years ago, so I just repurposed the winch.
This is really well done -- THANKS!
Kind of an unrelated question, do you know where I can find any diagram or instruction to FIX the air over hydraulic pump attached to many of these presses? My air pump stopped working over a year ago (bottle and hand pump are fine) and I cannot find anyone or anything online describing how to fix it. I've had it (and everything associated with it) apart many times and everything LOOKS fine - lines and passages clean as a whistle, but it doesn't even make a sound.
Oh, and by the way, nobody sells these things as an individual assembly; you gotta buy the whole assembly with bottle. I do have a pedal style air pump for hydraulics, but it cannot be attched to this 20T bottle as far as I can determine.
Buy a new one and return the old one in the new box.
@@InchFab No wonder prices are skyrocketing with dishonest people such that you advised.
@AerialLensVideo, see if you can find oe mfg. If not, then, just get a new one. By the time you fart around with it, you'll have wished you'd just gotten the HF unit.. and keep the receipt. Happy pressing.
How did u get the air to run the jack exactly? Didn’t really show any of that. Would love to do that to mine
The jack is an air-over-hydraulic jack picked up from Harbor Freight. It has an integrated air hose.
How did you get the air to the jack would appreciate directions
I just blow into the hose REALLY hard 🤣...I just run my air hose over to the press when i need to
Thank you that is going to be two thing's I'm going to get for the 20 ton press my brother just got for free this old man gave him and other industrial metal working tool's that he no longer use. I'm going to hook up a pully I like that idea and the brake. I'm shire there are many many other adapters that can go on the press countless idea's that the press can be use to bend pip, dimple dies, stamp letters, make emblem out of steel then press it in sheet metal. Dog tags, list goes on and.
Will seem perhaps like a stupid question but how do you avoid two cables fouling in the winch when they go opposite directions? This is not a split drum winch designed for that purpose. I got my winch at Harbor Freight and have not set up the cable yet. Did you cut cable in half or use one long piece threaded through winch and tacked to right side?
I cut the cable and ran each segment independent of the other, being careful with how they wound around the drum. Neither cake gets unwound to enough that they have ever interfered with one another
Thanks, thought the answer was probably simple and I must be overthinking it. Great video.
Great job, you might want to think about taking a welding class though
Aint't nobody got time for that!! 🤣
What kind of welder are you using? I am planning on getting a cheap HF unit to learn with, but could use the advice
I'm using a Lincoln 120v 140 Amp welder I picked up from Lowes. I started with a cheap HF flux core welder I used to learn, but when the motor crapped out after about a year I picked up the Lincoln.
@@MoonBuiltGarage I will look into it. I need to learn to weld, all the cool stuff I see on youtube requires it.
@@ElectricEric I would get the best welder you can afford you will learn how to weld it just takes welding as much as you can practice practice practice.
I learned how to weld on the biggest machine they make huge 440 mig welder. When I picked up the 120 mig it felt small and I was able to weld small detail stuff that I couldn't with the bigger mig welder everything I tried to weld with it would just burn through. It was made to weld big stuff. I'm shire all those machine's are out dated this was 17 year's ago.
@@snoopu2601 Unfortunately it isn't about what I can afford, but what my wife will allow me to afford. If you got any tips on sweet talking her into increasing my spending limit let me know🤣
where do I get a pulley like the one you have I like that style
Walter, I got mine from Harbor Freight.
@@MoonBuiltGarage Thanks a million ! Walt
Such a handy tool, once you have one you wonder how you lived without one? 😁😁😁
Right?!? I've used this thing more than I thought I would when I first got it.
@@MoonBuiltGarage I made some arbor extensions for mine, handy too. I also made metal bender as well. I am going to make a plate fixture next so I position things better.
Hello, Im trying to keep pressure for 24 hours to glue a wood, Im on my second bottle jack and it start to slowly leak and losses pressure and lift back to start position. Can any one guide me on the right direction? Thank you
Press it with the press then apply two large c clamps to hold it or wedge in two lengths of steel to go between the top of the press to the moving press bar .
Pipe clamps or c-clamps
I learned with my welder to .30 flux core works the best for everything. i also turn off the house ac, washer, dryer to give full amps when welding. if the arch is poping and shooting spatter then was low amps avail or bad ground. i can see the excess spatter and poor penetration on those welds. i can also see u did not use any pattern when making them. i use the c movment for my welds. makes a row of dimes look. nice ideas you have. my 12 ton press needs so many factory items to be corrected its a joke. one day i will fix it and weld up some spots.
One of these days I'll get around to fixing the welds...I tacked everything to gather as a proof-of-concept just to see how it would all work...that was about 5 years ago or so and nothing has failed yet 🤞!
Take your release valve out & weld a wing nut on it..... dont have to use handle & easier on the fingers
Too Simple....And here I was wanting to over complicate things! That will be one of the first things I do once I get back into the garage. Thanks!
There’s classes for welding 101!! 🤣😅. At least it’s holding 😀
I've considered that...but I enjoy the rush of surviving every time my welds hold 😂
@@MoonBuiltGarage Hey don't let them bother you. Your worst weld is better than my best. If it holds, you're good.
@@wintercoder6687 I don't sweat it...haven't had a failed weld kill me yet!
I can't stop looking at the welds...
Not the prettiest, I know. But, they haven't failed me yet!
Had a hard time watching after seeing those welds...
Ain't gotta be pretty....haven't failed yet...let's see whatcha got