Press Uses
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Press Uses
What do you guys use your presses for?
I think that I am going to pick up a 12ton press from Northern to press the bearings onto my pinion gear on my 'stang but I would like to know what you guys use them for other than that.
I think that I am going to pick up a 12ton press from Northern to press the bearings onto my pinion gear on my 'stang but I would like to know what you guys use them for other than that.
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Originally Posted by MisterCMK
What do you guys use your presses for?
I think that I am going to pick up a 12ton press from Northern to press the bearings onto my pinion gear on my 'stang but I would like to know what you guys use them for other than that.
I think that I am going to pick up a 12ton press from Northern to press the bearings onto my pinion gear on my 'stang but I would like to know what you guys use them for other than that.
Remove / Install axle bearings
I made up a small bending fixture for use in the press to bend flat stock up to 1/4" thick for brackets, etc. Makes nice smooth even bends up to 90 degrees.
Start with the press and over time you'll make up various fixtures for use with it to press and bend all kinds of things.
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I had to help press a pin out of a old bull dozier sprocket. We have a 20 ton press at the local trade school. When the pin finally moved it sounded like a .22 rifle going off in the shop. Scared the crap out of everybody around the press. I thought we had broke this antique sprocket that we working on and was going to have to build a whole new sprocket because you cant find them anymore. Luckily it was just the old pin moving, so we bored the center out and made the correct pin.
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