Recent content by Jlowe

https://vimeo.com/169344859https://vimeo.com/169344896 Made some progress, I have the winch and pulley system all sorted out, not finished as yet. But the bigger part of the progress is I've modified the jack for inverted use, drilled and tapped for a gauge. I'll be now remote mounting the...

Thanks for the input, I guess I drew it that way thinking it would push the load out towards the pins not giving any thought to tension and compression of the gussets. Cheers Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Small update, got the bed sitting in place roughly, still a lot of work to do on the bed yet but it's at least looking like a press. I've got a small boat winch to be able to raise and lower the bed as it will be way to heavy to do manually. Lower frame is in place to, couple more pieces of...

Thanks guys, yes stands that tall[emoji6] And I'm just running a 32t air/hydraulic jack that I hope to convert to foot control Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Finally got the press upright on its wheels, stands at 2040mm tall. Fair way to go yet but start buy making a base to join the uprights together to form a base for somewhere to sit tooling, but mainly to lock the legs together. Once that's done I can join the two sides of the bed together and...

Thanks, not quite as nice as id like as I'm asking a bit much of my old mig. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Been a long time in the making but finally making some progress on my shop press. Went with version two drawing for the most part, so far I have the basics of the feet made, I have the uprights drilled and most of the plates welded on, head piece is done. Haven't done anything bout the jack...

holy hell thats has a hard life, pretty much why I want to build mine "overkill"

Havent priced anything yet but i have a pretty good contact who builds commercial sheds so he always has some "laying around".

That looks really neat alan, it came up in all the searches I had done, great job.

Pretty confident I don't need 50t, just easier to have it and not use it than not have it. 30t would probably be heaps, Kevin54, where would you loose some material? Just in the head and table? As it's drawn in latest pic it uses 150 (6in) Pfc up rights and 250 (10in) Pfc for the head and...

Thats some sweet work their bloke, been dreaming of a coffee table and a outdoor table for years now just haven't committed to a design to make a start. Keep up the great work

Hey mark any chance of an over all photo of your press? Cheers

After some valid suggestions from you all here is "V2". Some what more of a complete drawing, Still some details left out. I guess the main reason for having a sliding head that i can see is when I'm dimpling larger pieces of sheet metal I'm not restricted, though it would be a rare occasion...

Sorry probably should of specified it will be air/hydraulic Jack at minimum, and yes aware of changes are required to run a jack upside down. one thing that worries me is how dam slow it will be the larger jack i go with. Haven't spent anytime with hydraulics to set something up from scratch