My Shop

[3500GMC]

Have any pics of the shop floor 'pre concrete", with the tube grids and anchors?

 

[ak diesel driver]

Heck no that was pushing 20 years ago.

 

[3500GMC]

Lol ok, so it's been a while.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Pleasant surprise , was told it was a 6000 lb lift but in the process of cleaning it up I discovered the data tag.9000 lb

 

[ak diesel driver]

Got all the bearings I ordered to replace the bad bearings I discovered. Only unknown at this point is the hydraulics

 

[btfarm]

Excellent!

 

[ak diesel driver]

Got some paint on the inside of the first one.

 

[ak diesel driver]

So I found what I think is a pretty good deal. Finger press brake for $299 w/free shipping. swag offroad

 

[SmithvilleD]

Nice Les! I'll be interested how you like it once welded together. Is it the one to fit the common 20T presses? I've got a 20T but haven't pulled the trigger on a press brake as can access that capability at work.

Big fan of SWAG Offroad. Have their Portaband table, Clutter Catcher for fab table, and their ultra simple circle cutter attachment for plasma cutter. Quality built stuff for a fair price.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Says it was designed to fit most import presses. Here's mine which I upgraded with an air/hydraulic pump.

 

[SmithvilleD]

Says it was designed to fit most import presses. Here's mine which I upgraded with an air/hydraulic pump.

I have the exact same setup. That air switch trigger latch (safety measure??) can be a little tricky. Likes to help hold the trigger down when you'd prefer to stop Perhaps I don't understand it's function? Thinking that wire catch needs to come off the switch?

Traced the cast arbor plates onto some 1" plate steel & plasma cut out tougher (maybe safer) arbor plates. Even with the questionable switch/control, the air/hydraulic setup was cheap & makes setup on some of the clumsier A-arm ball joints, etc., a bit easier.

I have a hand crank/screw drive cable winch intended to make raising/lowering the table easier - haven't gotten it installed yet. YouTube has a number of videos showing useful hacks/add-ons for these presses.

 

[ak diesel driver]

LOL first time I used the jack, it stuck on me and I darn near ruined what I was pressing. I ripped it off and never looked back.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Got it all assembled

 

[Will L.]

Cool

 

[ak diesel driver]

Finally getting back to my hoist. Got the first one bolted down. Took quite a bit of elbow grease to get it in. I ended up grinding the floor out to get it to set level. For some reason the base of the post is quite a bit out of square. I decided to paint the posts in place so I could spray them. The brush job on the inside doesn't look very good.

 

[NVW]

You're going to love it Les.

 

[Will L.]

Don't sweat the brush strokes. When your easily accessing tranny and the like, you won't care about Picasso's invisible strokes. You'll just get to enjoy not laying on the ground all cramped up.

 

[Burning oil]

Cool, never enough tools.

 

[ak diesel driver]

Stand I built for my milling machine today. Just a cheapie. It's sitting where the other post goes. I'm going to check into getting it sand blasted.

 

[Will L.]

Looks well built, but is the angle iron edge going to be an ankle biter?