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What Am I? Die Press?
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Firebrick43
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Button maker press?
blazemaster83
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A giant arbor press for a tiny man
We used similar sets like you have for custom drill/ream fixtures years back.
With the fixture mounted on the lower and a drill bushing in the upper, the part would be placed in and the the handle would lower the upper and hold in the piece to be drilled.
With the fixture mounted on the lower and a drill bushing in the upper, the part would be placed in and the the handle would lower the upper and hold in the piece to be drilled.
seber
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It's just a simple substitute for a punch press. There were a few of those left in the tool room when I started at my last job in 1985. They had been used when fish hooks were still made one at a time in steps on sequential benches. Not long after that they had all walked. I think the shop foreman probably gave them to anyone who asked. I wish I had.
It's just a simple substitute for a punch press. There were a few of those left in the tool room when I started at my last job in 1985. They had been used when fish hooks were still made one at a time in steps on sequential benches. Not long after that they had all walked. I think the shop foreman probably gave them to anyone who asked. I wish I had.
Thanks for the input everyone. @Seber do you know what I should call it>
seber
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I think they were called die presses but I really can't be sure.
We used similar sets like you have for custom drill/ream fixtures years back. With the fixture mounted on the lower and a drill bushing in the upper, the part would be placed in and the the handle would lower the upper and hold in the piece to be drilled.
I agree, it looks like drill jig. The round blank part at the top would be machined to accept the desired drill bushing, basically turning a drill press (or even a hand drill) into a more precise piece of equipment, reducing the need to try and fixture the part in a mill. The one the OP has probably never saw production use because the blank is still intact, which is also why it is in such good condition. A neat little piece of history from a bygone era in manufacturing.
They very well could have been used as light duty presses as Seber describes, but I believe the original intended purpose would have been as a drill jig.
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Lassen Forge
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We used to have one that we used for a small bushing press... excellent for seating press-in carb jets, plain bushings on motors, and the like... for small stuff like that they're ideal. you may have to make corresponding dies for whatever your pressing into (like a carb body) but that's pretty easy.
I would call that a manual die press. You have a press that requires additional work to install two sides of a fixture, upper and lower, to do a job. We used them in a proto shop to prove proof of concept before building automated tooling.
Google the term 'manual die press'. Also look here https://www.janesvilletool.com/C/20/DieSets for new blank die sets. ones with manual actuation can also be found on the above site.
lg
no neat sig line
Google the term 'manual die press'. Also look here https://www.janesvilletool.com/C/20/DieSets for new blank die sets. ones with manual actuation can also be found on the above site.
lg
no neat sig line