FABRICATION | 20-Ton Press Pimpin'
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2021
- My Harbor Freight 20-ton press was just taking up much needed space in the shop and I decided to make it into an effective tool. Over the course of two months or so I did the following:
Welded a base frame on
Installed Castors
Made a plywood bottom
Welded together a finger press break kit.
Made some pin extenders and a mount for them
Altered the beam pins for safety
Swapped out the manual 20t jack for an air/hydraulic one
Primed and painted everything
I am most proud of the extension pins and the pin holder. I did some initial concept sketches and then opened AutoCAD for some part design. Next step was to have SendCutSend cuts my parts out. The parts arrived in 4 days and a week or so later, I welded/bolted everything together on a Saturday. I don’t show it in the video, but the bottoms of the pins are drilled and tapped 1/2”-13 so that I can bolt in snapped dies and also smaller diameter pin extensions for pressing out u-joints and such
Total cost was $610 for all the parts, material, paint, castors, hardware, hoses, and foot pedal. Not the cheapest option, but this thing is MINE and will last me the rest of my working life. I also feel that in the month since I finished it, that the press has finally earned its real estate in the shop, seeing action a couple times a week.
Harbor Freight Jack:
www.harborfreight.com/20-ton-...
SendCutSend:
sendcutsend.com
SWAG Finger Press Break:
www.swagoffroad.com/SWAG-20-T...
SWAG Gooseneck Dies:
www.swagoffroad.com/SWAG-Goos...
Machined Arbor Plates:
www.swagoffroad.com/SWAG-Mach...
Air Foot Pedal:
www.amazon.com/Pneumatic-Posi... - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Nice...as far as plates...I went to metal supermarket and got them to cut 1x6 inch flat stock to make new plates. Popped indexing pins in them and they are in there nice...way better than the cast plates. Nice mods, good ideas.
Very nice work,great video!👍🏻
Thank you
"Pay for it's real estate" Good phrase I'll try to remember that. It's an extremely important issue.
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I made the same move to the air jack. I cut the top of the original jack off and welded it to the bottom of the beam directly under the new jack because it has an adjustable post on it which helps with the jack having to travel to much. I like the mods you made.
Thank you. I use the press all the time now. Ran something through it last night :-)
Real practical useful metal art!
thank you!
impressive!
Thanks! Use it at least once a week.
Real nice job. I really like the pins and holder. I saw another video were the guy place small round great earth magnets in the pins from the Jack and they seemed to hold the additional pins just fine. I subbed.
Thank you! Appreciate it!
i made my press out of old bridge girder angle iron riveted together for the sides and 8 in deep channel for the bed and top plates i put a bushing with a set bolt to hold my press pins in dont have a lathe to get the pins perfect but they work pretty good would like to get a brake for it and a foot valve for the air jack i have put on it great vid thanks for the ideas
Just printed your handle off thingiverse! I love it thanks!!
AWESOME!! Thank you for letting me know!
Bom trabalho. Parabéns.
I have tried I believe every kind off lube known to man for tapping harder metals, mainly AR400 and 500 and I have found I break very few taps using Castrol moly d. Tried tap magic before and didn't do much good.
The Moly D is great stuff!
Thanks for the video!
My HF air/hydraulic pump failed some time ago. I've had it apart, cleaned, lubed it, checked all lines, etc and see no cause for the problem. It is dead. The BOTTLE works fine manually as it always did, but I cannot find any source for just the air pump (cannot afford the bottle+pump assembly again) - any clues?
Note: I do have a regular floor model pedal air pump for a CH-70 punch press, but do not see how to connect it to the HF 20 ton bottle. ANY comments, links, or clues welcome! Thanks again!
Do you still make and sell the know for pressure release?? Great idea!
I don’t. You can buy one from SWAG off-road. Both aluminum and printed
Great improvements! Any chance you would share the cad file for the holder for the extension rods?
Thanks
Paul
Hi Paul. Sure. I will put the file up online later tonight when I get home. I will include one with my logo and one without 🙂
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Thanks!
@@1soundguypaul well, Wordpress won’t let me post the .dwg files. Send me a note to matt(at)mattofmanytrades(dot)com and I will send you the files.
@@1soundguypaul did you get the files?
@@MattofManyTrades yes I did thank you very much.
Paul
how thick is the metal?
which? The bender material (.250") or the post holder (.125")? Or test material (cold Rolled .250")?
Tried 3D printing finger dies?
no, they would not hold up to the work I do.