Dake UT-10A Screw Press

[oldironowner]

Picked up an old Dake UT-10A screw press recently. Press was mostly complete. It was missing a few things like some parts to the press nose and the thumb screw for the handle to lock it in place.


Tore down and sand blasted the press. I had this old Hammond Machinery pin router base that I picked up from a garage sale with a craftsman block grinder on it. Blasted and powdercoated that base up in my favorite Basalt Gray colorway. It has that old school bluish/grey machine shop hue to it. Whipped up some feet for the stand out of old hockey pucks and some carriage bolts. Laser cut 1/4 stainless washers for those.








Laser cut a 3/8 thick steel plate with mounting holes to base top and press base next. Powdercoated the press a favorite color of mine, neon green. It matches a lot of the tools and boxes I own.



Contacted a great friend of mine Tom Utley from Von Industrial. Asked him to recreate the Dake tag for me. He works miracles on these machinery tags. Unbelievably talented.



The end of the press screw that holds the press nose and Timken press bearing was badly damaged. I machined the end of the nose off, drilled and tapped 1/2-20 to accept a new mounting end.





To be continued…

 

[oldironowner]

Drew up a new mounting end to thread into the machined end of the press screw. Machined a few out of 4140.




Now I could get onto making new parts for the press nose. I needed a washer and a new Timken bearing. I machined a new nose as well. All from heat treated 4140.




I also added a vintage Fostoria lamp that I saved years ago. Tore it down, blasted and powdercoated it. It’s wired thru a Crouse-Hinds explosion proof switch box. The light and box are held in with neodymium pot magnets in case I’d like to move them.




The handle and press pins that adjust the height of the frame were all original. I polished those and the original aluminum knobs. Added a stainless knurled knob I made to the handle to lock it in place. Originally it would have had a thumb screw.

The base received some brass hex nuts and bronze washers to hold the feet down that I machined. The lettering on the base was color filed with black enamel to showcase the machinery maker.






To Be Continued…

 

[oldironowner]

The press also received some new plates for fixturing various items. The plates started life as .750” thick AR500 steel plate. Once I machined them they were then match Blanchard ground. They were machined and made to accept a press fit of four .500” x 1.250” dowel pins. This was done to insure plates stay put when mounted between beam section.

 

[mattthemuppet]

beautiful press and fantastic restoration. Won't be hard to find in a dark workshop either

 

[Firebrick43]

Love the dowels to keep the plates from slipping off.

Always liked screw presses compared to arbor presses for putting in small bearings and bushings for the feel and larger window but alas they were never very common in this country.

Fly presses seemed to be very common in continental Europe?

 

[oldironowner]

Love the dowels to keep the plates from slipping off.

Always liked screw presses compared to arbor presses for putting in small bearings and bushings for the feel and larger window but alas they were never very common in this country.

Fly presses seemed to be very common in continental Europe?

Looking very much forward to utilizing it. I have arbor press and 25ton LEMPCO hydraulic press next in que to get rebuilt and rehab’d.