[TheForge] Upside-down hydraulic press -- comments?

[Jeffrey Polaski]

Do you plan on doing anything in particular with it? For example, making
Damascus? 

I don't really know anything about presses, but it seems a little
narrow... All the presses I've seen are wider. Is that so it fits the
scrap you have? 

It seems like the flange from the I-beam will cause problems when you
work on the diagonal. That is, if it's only six inches wide, the four
inch flange will start to interfere pretty quickly.

Just my $0.02...



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Subject: [TheForge] Upside-down hydraulic press -- comments?

Greetings all -- 

I'm in the head-scratching stage on building a press and want to pump
any 
and all for comments (before I make bigger mistakes than I usually do).

I've posted the plans at: 

http:\\www.ironflower.com\plans\press.htm 

Please tell me what you think. 

Steve (FABA editor - among other things) Bloom 

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