20 Ton Shop Press Enhancements
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- In this video I machine and install several enhancements to a standard 20 ton shop press. This press came from Agri Supply but is basically the same as the ones sold by Harbor Freight.
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Lee you really come up with some incredible modifications and ideas, along with that you have the attention of some great machinists that comment on you projects keep up the great work 👍🇺🇸
Nice little additions to the press, makes for good storage and handy.
Thanks for sharing.
That knob is a great idea, came out just right.
Very nice additions to your press. I'll be making these for mine.
Lonnie
I learn something new with every video. Thank you for sharing.
Enjoyed the full process. Thanks for sharing!
Very interesting approaches. I enjoyed your ideas and solutions quite a bit.
Enjoyed your Video,Those improvements to your press will surely be Handy!
Good on ya! Did the knob mod to my press several years ago. Now I need to make a crank up/down for the platen.
Google Bend Radius & Set Back - you will find more information than you ever wanted about the subject of where to put the 'bend line' on the part to achieve the proper end dimension. This is a required basic task for an A&P Aircraft Mechanic certification. A subject that I studied diligently and then promptly forgot after the air-frame written exam. Thankfully it wasn't a task on the practical exam. What I remember is where to find the information when I need to bend up a part. Your video has inspired me to make a knob for my press. I will have to go back to your other video to refresh my memory on the extensions. Enjoyed as usual!
Very nice, great video!👍🏻
G'day Kevin from Australia.
Great video
I'll be doing that to my 20 ton press A+ .👍
I used some adhesive backed felt to quiet my press down, but I placed it on the inside surfaces of the part that moves up and down rather than the two side rails. I also use a large magnet to hold my handle to the press. The drifts and knob are a nice touch.
Looks good Lee! Cheers, Doug
Cool ideas.
I need to do that to my HF 20t press.
Thanks for the great video. :-)
Thanks for the ideas. I plan on using them.
I did something similar on my press to the handle you made. I removed the roll pin and installed a set screw in the handle hole. I made mine about 1 1/2" and knurled the circumference of the knob. It works well. Just another way of doing it.
The thumbscrew for the petcock is just pure genius. Going to make one tomorrow.
Nice improvements Lee.
Thanks ,Just ran across the video, I have the same press and also added the knob a few years ago, Also added cross pin holes in the sides of the up rights to hold the jack base down to remove the jack as needed. later from Texas. The tool holder ,pin you made looks good.
Well done. Good brake review.
Nice handy improvements
Loved your ideas but do not own a lathe so i improvised built the bracket out of some body panels had laying around but your idea of making those extensions i took an old 20 ton cyl. cut the shaft then welded a sleeve so it would slip over the one on the press welded a nut on the side to put a bolt threw it to secure it to the arbor then you could just un thread the shaft to your desired length .Your knob it to is a great idea what i did was took a pull start handle off of a dead lawnmower they look to be the same size hole just knocked the spring lock dowel out of the relief valve measured were to drill the hole put it in to place it worked out fine your ideas always inspire those out there to do the same but just more cost efficient to us.
All good tips Lee. I’m definitely going to copy you.
great job Lee. I am thinking of making my own press out of an old network hardware rack.
Yet again Lee you are sowing seeds for me to copy some ideas. I did make a small knob for my hydraulic release though yours is nicer!.
Perhaps a hole cutter or annular cutter could have been useful for your hole making - although nothing wrong with trepanning and that worked real nice.!
I must do like you did to cure the awful float noise on the cross beam. Also I have yet to make some extensions (your drifts).
Nice tweaks :)
Полезное приспособление для пресса!
Helpful device for press👍👍👍👍👍
Very good ideas !
THANK YOU...for sharing. Very nice.
Nice job Lee!
ATB, Robin
for getting the collet block square in the vise, 2 thin parallels could be used if they would clear the lock ring on the collet block
John
Nylon seems like the ideal material to shim the slop
Great ideas, thanks
Good work! I just subscribed!
A master at work, old school not a CNC in sight!
I really enjoyed your project and the quality of your work! I have the same press, and if you don’t mind, I will borrow some of your ideas and improve mine. Thank you
Amazing video as usual, I have exact same press, updated with air over hydraulic. If you want to punch holes in sheet metal, with your machining skills why not just make a set of punch dies for the press? Bet they would turn out awesome. A pleasure watching you work as always.
Nice idea, thanks
The first thing that came to mind for me when I saw the holes you wanted in that sheet metal were punching holes in metal chassis for tube sockets, way back when. I used "chassis punches" made by Greenlee, which aren't exactly cheap but you really don't need that many sizes in the long run. I suppose it'd be possible to make something of this sort, but don't know how you'd go about hardening them...
nice modifications. i think i would also have to reaise the whole press up 6-12 inches to provide a more comfortable work height.
good job
Thank You Lee nice
Nice job! Great ideas. Cheers!
As a retired machinist that completed a lifetime career with all ten fingers intact, it makes me cringe when I see someone operating machinery while wearing a ring.
Hein Werner and several other Manufacturers call them "Push Adapters". They are sold as accessory kits for their H Frame Presses .
Great work. New fans over here at How2wrench!
Step drills work pretty well on sheet metal. Drills a pretty nice ROUND hole.
Especially if used with something sacrificial as backing support
For the handle, I put some magnets on top of the press, salvaged from old hard drives.
the tool box liner to me was a bad idea it will just rip when a load pushes the push plate over a little there is much better stuff that could be used but the rest is all good ideas and will serve ya will and make life easier on ya. thanks for sharing
You ever consider switching out that bottle jack for an air powered bottle jack? It speeds up the operation 20x easily.
Great idea thanks for sharing this video.
nice
Some thick phenolic material on the rails would take up the slop and last forever.... Nice knob! What do you recommend using as material for the drifts??
I would have made a stop ledge on the front upper support that's in line with the top of the pump jack rather than having a wide spot sticking out that you could run into. Or you could have drilled a small hole in the shafts and used a small round magnet placed in the hole so it can stick to the side frame of the press. For the release knob I would have knurled the end for your fingers to grab. I don't have a lathe or I would make one but my lathe is at my HS which I used for 4 yrs in machine shop back in the early 70's.
The knob stock looks to have been faced in the lathe. If you had center drilled it, you could center it in the mill with a center. (too many centers in that sentence) Great work overall.
PS The magnet don't get crushed? Most magnets are fragile.
I love your videos, great explanations and I learn a lot. Can you tell me where or what is the model or proper name for the collet chuck on your lathe? I have a Grizzly G4003 and would like to get one of those. thanks
CDCO has them at least that's where I got mine.
Pragmatic Lee or Practical Lee... ;)
All those things to do added on my "to Do" list... lol
I always use "q-max cutters" to put holes in sheet metal.
very cool :-)
Any chance you design a safety guard and add to your current press with new video?
can you send me the info on your lathe backing plate ? Thanks
Well done Sir! Excellent work and ideas! Wish I had a lathe and drill press and mill and....
I DO have a HF press though!
One thing though...please take those rings off when working?! It makes me cringe! You don’t want to lose a finger!
Another method for cutting those big holes would be a hole saw ...I only know about those because I am an electrician and we cut lots of holes in sheetmetal for conduit fittings....they work great! Really fast though probably not quite as clean as your lathe work ...just lots faster! I probably would have screwed the sheetmetal on to a piece of scrap plywood and then used hole saw (metal cutting saw of course) and just go right through ....then just dress the hole with a fine file and maybe some sand paper
I took apart the jack and flipped it to allow getting rid of the cross members. You need to take apart the jack to add a pickup tube for the hydraulic fluid. I just could not stand how wobbly the factory arrangement is .
Lee cool.
Lee, I have a 10 in clausing 4900 lathe that somehow the top gib is broken and need a new one. Could you build it for me as my grinder and mill are not totally set up. Clausing sent me a drawing and I have 4 inches of the 6 inch gib. 😁😁 It is not available and my skills are not up to snuff yet.
ok - don't know why more companies/people make attachments for the end of the press. Can you make just two sizes? i'll buy.
I'm just wondering are these valve really "petcocks"? I always assumed petcock to be a valve to remove fluids like on a motorcycle or generator fuel tanks for example ...Or at the bottom of a radiator to drain coolant etc ...I'm just wondering if that is really the correct term for a hydraulic release valve which is a closed system?? I don't know it just kind of sounds wrong to me is all
I thought a pet cock was a rooster, of which one was very fond.................but then I found one one my motorcycle.
Stavros
May I suggest screwing or clamping sheet metal to a piece of plywood,it’ll make a nicer hole too.
Man,you know your stuff; just seeing you run your finger on that fresh cut, showed *some*experience...
(edit, after seeing the whole thing): I would not add anything outside of the perimeter of the u-channels: it's just waiting to grab your shirt and skin;
And you don't need that: you enclose the u channel with some sheet metal on the outside,and you have all the enclosed shelves you need; i am a car mech,not a machinist, but if i saw that in my shop,i would have it taken down *NOW*.
Awsome video , but I dont have a lathe...
Lee,
Do you have your enhancements for sale? I would love them for my 20 ton shop press.
Kelvin Murphy isn’t the point of having these tools so that we can make all of this ourselves? Otherwise, why do we have them?
@@melgross a lot of people don't have the tools to make things, plus would be quick cash for the maker. There's so many attachments for trucks, tools etc so what's the difference...?
Mike Finto these are all pretty simple things to make, and unless you’re just a mechanic, buying a press for bearings and such, making these tools shouldn’t be a problem.
I have been wanting to make a pet cock knob for my press also. So many projects so little time. :)
Nice. Way too nice.
You need to scuff things up more.
Otherwise, someone's liable to steal that totally pimped out press.
I like the mods you've made. In case it sounds interesting to you, here is another TH-cam video of someone who made some interesting mods to his 20-ton press:
th-cam.com/video/oC63WyaoXN0/w-d-xo.htmlm25s
th-cam.com/video/oC63WyaoXN0/w-d-xo.htmlm45s
There are a few mods in the video, but by far the most interesting mod, shown at the link, is where he replaced the 20-ton bottle jack in the press with an alternate 20-ton bottle jack that includes an air-motor allowing the jack to be operated by air pressure (in additional to the standard pump handle).