[TheForge] Fly Press - Kick Presses

Tue Mar 18 21:12:00 2003

Hey Guys,
Any of you have personal experience with a FAMCO style kick press? I 
believe I might have mentioned them before.
I bought a 3 ton unit and regret to admit that I have yet to build the 
tooling to use it. It looks a lot like the framework of the smaller fly 
presses, only it has a huge cam operated foot pedal which drives the 
ram.

My thought in buying it would be to be able to hold the work in place 
and use the foot pedal for very fine control during the pressing 
operation.

PS The kick press did not cost much on ebay.

Ray Miller
Cincinnati

On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 07:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> All of the talk about forging presses ahs got me thinking about a 
> press.  I am more interested in a Fly or Screw Press.  Mostly because 
> I curently don't have any poser to the shop & the house is all solar 
> power.  Non-power tools are a bit easier to make use of right now.  
> Any body have any experience or thought regarding the Fly Press?  How 
> big of a press would be useful for the average shop (I know it all 
> depends, but a good starting point would be nice)?  Are there any 
> advantages of a Fly Press over the Hydraulic Press?  Finally can a 
> large Fly Press do everything a small one could do, or are they to 
> much for the more delicate work?
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
>
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