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Hey Eric, go ahead and post bigger or more detailed pictures. The system here will re-size as needed automatically. Interesting machine. Pretty fancy just for pressing bearings. Come back and show us how you're using it too as you get used to it.

Here is some of the decorative tooling used on the fly press. My P6 press has a 1" hole in the ram In the fore ground is a holder , one of the first tools I made for the press. did some checking on the internet and someone recomended making a holder, the large diameter of it would distribute forging forces on a broad area of the ram. I didn't use it much. The holder on the right has a 1" piece to fit in the ram and a 1 1/2" piece with a 1" hole in it for holding tooling. I like to use 1" diameter used whitney punches for tooling, they are hardened and can be ground in a variety of shapes.

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Sounds good, you learn as you go.

One of my favorite scrounged/yardsale steel is automobile lug wrench for hot stamps or touchmarks. I think it's 1050/1070 steel in the way it sparks. forge, shape, file, grind the business end, sand and smooth to shape, it's usually about .560" in diameter.

Easy to build a holder for these to fit.

With tool holders I use allen headed set screws, the screw or threaded section may get bunged up after a while, just re tap and use a different screw. I like to use hardened allen head screws.

I sized most of my old hand held stamps of various lengths to the same length for use in the fly press tool holders so not to have change ram heights.

As in leather working, a limited number of leather stamps yields almost unlimited design possibilties. I used to do some leatherwork when in the Navy, that was a thousand years ago.