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11:03 pm
May 14, 2010
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This 65-ton press landed in the shop today (via Larry). Thanks Larry for all the careful strapping and banding. It made the trip down from Seattle safe and sound. I've got some deferred electrical work ahead of me before I get this thing powered up, but I'll post some photos of squished stuff later.
-DB
11:26 pm
April 21, 2010
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Grats to you and Larry, if its the one I was there for when it got to Larry's place it really is an impressive machine, have fun with it.
12:10 am
March 26, 2010
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Nice looking bit of kit David.
Did you get it for a specific job or because it was "there". I kinda find its good to buy something when it's "there" at the right price even if you don't have an immediate use for it. Invariably if you have to get it in for a specific job, there's never one "there" at the right price.
12:36 am
May 14, 2010
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David,
I've been casually looking for a 100-ton class press for a couple years now. I don't have a specific job for it right now, but I have ideas that have been festering...It needed to be the right price and the right configuration, and when Larry dangled this one over the airwaves, it wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but it seemed like really good bang for the buck. It seems to be in fantastic shape and I think I'd be hard pressed to find something better in this class. It was probably not the best time for me to be spending money on a "like to have" item, but it was there...and I'm a sucker for a tool. Let's see what kind of fun we can have with it...
-DB
2:04 am
March 22, 2010
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Yeah I already regret shipping her off to Dave... I only had the thing in my shop for a couple of months and I developed a real fondness for the girl... I think Mr Browne is going to be a happy new papa
If I was fat with cash I dont think I would have sold her.... Glad to see her loved in a good home though...
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln
8:17 am
March 26, 2010
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Yeah it's always a trade of balancing available funds and "need to have". If I shone the cold light of economics on things, I guess I wouldn't have bought my induction heater, but I just HAD to have one. The big attraction to me is the improvement in working conditions is my workshop, hard to quantify to the bank manager.
With me, what I do is as much a hobby as a job and it's hard knowing which I'm really spending my money on.
Damn nice press.
9:08 am
March 26, 2010
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When I decided "another C frame would be nice", most of the 100T ones where BIG four column leviathans (spot the fish reference) that there was no way I could fit in the workshop. I only had a inch spare getting my 30T through the door. That's quite a usfull looking C frame 50T, sensibly sized.
I not totally sure how the controls system on mine works but it seems to feedback some of the fluid applying the pressure to a little cylinder that acts acts the treadle. This means the more tons you want to apply, the harder you have to press on the treadle. Ie you get a "feel" of the applied pressure through the treadle (as opposed to being an one/off switch like on an ironworker punch). Its' wonderfully controllable/sensitive for "feathering".
I don't know if this is standard on all presses of this type .... I hope it is.
11:23 am
May 15, 2010
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Congrats David,
You'll have plenty of work making dies for a while if nothing else.
Michael Dillon
http://dillonforge.com/
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