You did some really nice upgrades Ken ! And great fab work ! It will be much more user friendly now ! Thank you for sharing !!! Stay safe my friend and God bless you and yours !!!! Eddy
Nice video Ken, and a very good job of beefing up that channel section. This answers a lot of questions I had about those light presses as I have been considering getting one. Anyhow, thanks and cheers!
I liked what you did. You might also think about welding washers on to the ends of the pins that hold the table up. By having a oversized washer you wont accidentally push the pin clean through and it stops up against your new top.
You really got that thing modified now Ken ! The only thing with having the air over hydraulic is I like the hand feel when you are trying to press something. Pumping the handle I start to question whether it should be this hard and I should double check the part.
i made my press out of 3/8 thick 5x5 angle riveted together (old bridge girder) for the sided and 3x8 channel for the table and top i made my jack plate able to slide side to side (dont think i ever used it tho) need to add the winch for mine too that table is "HEAVY" found a 2in thick plate 8x10 to press on great add ons!!!
Great video of the mods. What you could do now is install a couple of LED work lights in the pockets underneath, on each side of the jack table. With the amount of mods guys do on their harbor freight 20 ton presses, I think it would, (although initially more expensive), be better to build a 50 ton press right from scratch using a hydraulic foot operate ram. A 50 ton press is usually in the nature of $2,000. so to build one would be somewhat cheaper to do. Now you have a 50 ton capability.
@@1970chevelle396 You could still make one. I made a 100 ton press using two 50 ton rams. All metal was between 1 inch and half inch thick. It's a very heavy piece of equipment. All moving operations are done by hydraulics.
Nice at first why were you dealing with the bent up crappie cross bar well ok.. fix not bad . but then you decided to redo whole thing Nice i don't have same press my is harbor freight 20 ton but some nice mods I will be stealing for mine thanks for your video a
Good project. However I note this is a fabrication video that shows no fabrication. The video is just quick jumps in time showing things are done. No fabrication. We can tell from your hands that you are doing work though, just not showing it.
