Making My Hydraulic Press Improvements | Part 2 of 2 | Overkill DIY 20 Ton Hydraulic Shop Press 

I can tell already you’re going to be big. Nice video editing and quality content. Much deserved subscription

with all the equipment you have in your shop, I'd fabricate completely that press for many reasons, one is the guidance capacity of the moving carriage, you tightened it an appreciable way but the guidance stay very marginal in the case you have to press something off center. other point, the design is very marginal to use that frame at 20 tons, the deformations under stress are important and can lead to damage to the parts you want to press in.( or out ). on the other hand, the mods you done are excellent and the improvement over the original is notable. very good job.

Good call w/ those clips! I did something similar and superglued two neodymium magnets up on the web of the I-beam. Keeps the handle in place where I can find it.

Very nice, great job!👍🏻

Luxurious work! Great!

I have a bunch of large roller bearings about 3" tall that I stack up to take up space so I don't have to change my setup often. Nice modifications, just wish I had your mill and lathe to perform a lot of those modifications.

Really nice job!

Beautiful work… I haven’t read the comments, but you will so love an air over hydraulic 20t jack with a foot pedal.

You have some impressive skills and tools in your shop!!!

I really like the B&M shifter handle.

Very nice. Oddly, my HF 20 ton press stud is 1.915” diameter. I decided to leave that and make a removable piece to fit over it out of 2.250” dia 1144. So everything fits on that. Also I get the point of press pins as I’ve done that too. But I found that I needed to use hardened pins for them instead of just machining the ends down as that tends to mushroom too easily. So I just pressed the pins into the pieces that fit in the end of the adapter I made. Nice handle holder. I didn’t think of making it that way. Instead, I welded two 0.750 x 1” tabs onto the bottom edge of the beam and put thin rubber there for the long and short handles. I like that bottom tray. I never go down that far with the press, so I’m thinking of making one for the fingers of my SwagoffRoad finger break. I never know where to put these things.

Finally, you will upgrade the 20Ton to 50Ton!

The hydraulic jack looks great with the new handles. Your Nub Tools logo would look great on the jack housing. Great Video!

Nice work

Man I'd buy one of those trays from you. I have the same HF press... so awesome

I thought with all your talent, equipment and experience, why not just build your own press? Then I realized the correct answer "Because you can!" I 50 cent wood working spring clamp on each end of the bars is a quick way to keep them from falling out on your feet, then take your time planning for even a bigger overkill method. I loved the overkill accessory table, ya gotta have a place fro your drinks and chips and the shifter grip was the best, but you do realize you have to add dual chrome exhaust pipes now...right? I liked watching your metal working more than anything else. Well done, thanks!

That accessory table is a fantastic addition. If you were to contract these to be manufactured, I would buy one. I bet you could sell a lot of them.

Awesome

Side covers are the class act i would have use tiny earth magnets to keep them in place. But everything else is over the top

Amazon sells magnetic broom holding clamps that works perfectly for holding the hydraulic jack handle. I stuck the magnetic clips on top of the upper beam and clip the jack handle into them. The magnets are very strong. The clamps stay in place when removing the jack handle.

I fixed the front to back movement on mine with a OLD credit card, was the perfect thickness.

I just finished putting one of these janky assed presses together. After I was done I looked at the debris pile and the last thing left was the handle. I looked at the press, and it seemed like a no brainer, and I wondered why all these intelligent youtube machinists hadn't even thought about it. Then I found out why. You know, if someone had given the build just one more minute , or thought 1 more mile down the road, that GD handle would fit in the unused holes in the side rails. And one more that wouldn't have killed anyone to implement is some holes drilled in the end of the table pins with some keepers so they don't slide out. But before I try it myself, what do you think they're made of, and could they easily be drilled? Great video!

Definitely way better.

Lemons is in the house. 😂😂😂

Great stuff. When are you going to do a shop tour?

I'm a DIY garage tool tinkerererer myself. No skill at videoing, nor any desire, so I commend you on being able to capture your creativity on video to share and inspire, as well as actually make cool stuff. I have used those handle clamps before, and although they work, and actually look clean where you put them, I would have welded or bolted on a tube on the side with a capped bottom to drop the handle into. Not as glamorous, but functional, quicker and no way to really fail. Drop a small rubber disk down the tube so the handle makes a nice soft landing when dropped in place. Sub'd for now before you get too big and start product pitching and get lost in the fame.

a piece of bar stock or plate with several different sized holes would be handy to press against

just thought of a clip for the handle that would be cheap to find---Mop and Broom holder clips

Top quality shop top quality work. I was just wondering why you don’t put an air over bottle jack on it

What glue did you use on the UHMW. This is the first time I've seen glued. Nice video as always.

Just found your channel - great vid on a common press most of us metal dudes own. Question : i started working with metal about 5 years ago. About time to get some type of metal lathe. My background is heavy woodworking and electricity, so i'm not as "tuned in" to equipment available for home shop use . Do you have a suggestion for a home metal lathe? Not sure where to start with that product catagory. thanks again for a great build.

I like the knob install on the jack release. Where did you get that knob? got a part number?

You will need a V block male for bending plate & brackets as well,, I can tell you now from experience regards Frank

What size uhmw stock did you use to get the slack out of the slide bar? 1/8? 1/4? Oh and what product did you use to glue them on the steel? This seems like the best and easiest way to keep everything nice and tight with minimal clearance issues.

Need to add file handles to your list😅

Are you going to make attachments in the future if so do a deal were the customer sends you the top plate to machine with attachments and im in.

Where did you get the fixture table?

Hey man, love your channel... what is that paint you used for the silver finish?

use a magnet. no drill no thrill

The machine was most probably made in china, so will be a metric pin, 1 9/16" comes out at 39.6875mm so it is a 40mm pin

When are you going to put a 20 ton Air over Hydraulic Jack on it?

I just put two pull ties around the top rail & use that to hold the jack handle, but I do like your idea.

Chuck that cheesy press, and get one with a totally welded cage with no bolts. Great ideas, but not worthy of the tool. I used the legs off my bottle jack ram, and put them on a nice bench top that had thicker metal, a cylinder ram, and a side pump with a pressure guage to detect minute deflection or bottoming of what you are pressing.