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(04-26-2013, 04:00 PM)EdK Wrote: Thanks for the thought Russ but I have enough "project" tools. Besides, then you'd have to come up with another stand for the magnifying light.
That's got to be the fanciest magnifying light stand I've every seen.

Ed

Hi Ed,

I actually wasn't trying to sell you a piece of junk, but more of a warning to consider another brand of press other then what you are intending to buy.

My 12 ton is the same exact design as the 20 ton you are going to buy, and I am telling you from personal experience it is very poorly made.

Go back and look at the pictures I have posted. I still have shims under the cross beams where you would set your work on. There's two .125" shims under the left side, and one under the right side because of the twist in the frame.

I have another picture here from a couple years ago. Andrew was broaching some .250" wide keyways in some steel flywheels we make.

If you look at the press you can see again.....shims under the cross bar, and also you can see a .125" thick shim held to the side rail with a C-clamp to keep the head from shifting left and right because there is so much slop in the fit of the framework.



We were able to get it to do what I needed it to do, but once you moved the cross beam either up or down, it was another process of re-shimming everywhere to get it to press in straight, and even then it only worked just "ok", thus the reason why I went out and got a 5 ton ratcheting press, which works GREAT!

Yes, the price is cheap, and I understand that. Consider what you are going to use it for though and weigh the options if the low cost will outweigh the aggravation every time you need to use it.

Maybe I just got a lemon.

Hopefully you will have better luck!

Best Regards,
Russ