[TheForge] Beautiful tool

[Ben Barrett]

What's the advantage of moving the whole top-lever piece, if it is not
about momentum or mechanical gain from the lever?
It looks really cool, but I fail to see how it is more functional than
a C-frame press of similar look, with the cylinder in-line with the
work.
Please explain :)  I like its lines a lot though, and it looks easy to
both move around and move around :)

Ben


On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> It cycles like a striking hammer though it's actually a
> press he uses to form sheet steel. You should watch the
> video if you have the bandwidth, it explains
> everything. Heck it even sounds pretty.
>
> The guy lives about 250 miles from here and Deb's been
> wanting to visit Fairbanks for some time now. We might
> have to get a critter sitter and take a cruise.
>
> Frosty
> -------------------------------
> If it ain't forged
> it ain't real.
> Wrought iron is.
> The FrostWorks
>
> Meadow Lakes, AK.
>
>
> From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
>
>
>
>>
>>> http://www.markfejes.com/portfolio/current/2007/pages/2.html
>>
>> Wow.  The tool is a work of art in itself.  But I
>> don't quite get what
>> it's for.  Sheet metal, maybe?  Does it run
>> continuously or is there a
>> control that I didn't see. (I didn't download the
>> video or flash or
>> whatever it is.)
>>
>> And I love his lifetime supply of free sheet steel.
>> I had good success
>> making a couple of raised/sunk pieces from badly
>> corroded 16 ga. that
>> had been on the floor of my first shop for
>> fireproofing.  Great
>> surface texture.
>>
>>
>> - Mike
>>
>
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