[TheForge] Hydraulic Forging Press

Wed Mar 12 14:36:00 2003

Dave,
I built and used a Batson design a few years back.  In fact Ric has it in
Sturgeion Bay with a few minor changes to it to meet his needs.  It is a
very good design and easy to built. The only thing, it had limitations un
what you could used for.

I now build  H frame units as apposed to the C frame. The H frame allows the
pressure to go up by using two cylinders and still be under 3000 psi.  The
press I build now has foot control with automatic return when it reaches
pressure with the option of being able to cycle it with a selected range.
It develops a conservative 40 tons of force.  The knifemakers at the ABANA
conference used my H frame for their demos.

If you would have more questions get back to me off line.

Chuck

Chuck Schaeffer
Metals Magic Shop
[email protected]
Ph. 608.798.4296
Fax 608.798.1940

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Brown" <[email protected]>
To: "TheForge" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:03 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Hydraulic Forging Press

> I know there was a discussion about hydraulic presses a while back, but I
> wasn't interested then but I am now.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with the hydraulic forging press that Jim
> Batson
> designed?  (see:
http://www.artmetal.com/project/TOC/BookRevu/HydroPrs.html )
>
> I know our good friend and occasional poster to theforge, Chuck Schaeffer,
> has considerable experience in this area.  So, any comments and/or
> suggestions will be appreciated from any and all.
>
> Also, does anyone remember when the discussion on hydraulics took place on
> this list so I can go back to the archives and look the postings up?
>
> Dave Brown
> Heritage Smithing
> Green Bay, WI
> ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG
>
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