Anderzander Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 What's the minimum tonnage you'd consider useful for a LR ? The price jumps quite a bit from 6T to 12T and onto 20T. Is a gauge of great benefit ? Or just press it until it's in ? Apologies for the ignorance ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbekko Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 20T seemed to serve us well. Never really needed the gauge, would be more of a curiosity thing I'd imagine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuck Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I've got a 15 Te one Stephen & at times it feels like its working for a living, I wouldn't buy one with a lower capacity. If you don't want to purchase one your welcome to use mine, only over in Blackburn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miketomcat Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I have a 10ton but could do with bigger. The gauge is useless the first time something moves with a bang the gauge will jolt so hard at best it jumps a tooth and becomes in accurate or as mine did it stops working all together. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtyninety Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Id be buying a 20t press, you'll soon hit the limits of a lesser press. I made my own press using a 10t bottle jack - it struggles. Wouldn't touch an A-frame ball joint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 I've got a 15 Te one Stephen & at times it feels like its working for a living, I wouldn't buy one with a lower capacity. If you don't want to purchase one your welcome to use mine, only over in Blackburn. That's a kind offer thank you ! I have a bit of space available and was thinking, that whilst i don't expect to use it that often, I do want to work through the 90 and replace all the bushes for new standard ones. Plus the a frame ball joint.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuck Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 No problem, PM me if you ever want to use it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 This should suit all your needs Stephen .... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221712124774 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuck Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I doubt there'd be much that wouldn't budge with that behind it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I was going to suggest this one but thought it overkill http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271276806188 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuck Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Now that is a press! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted March 12, 2015 Author Share Posted March 12, 2015 I think that 1000 ton one broke doing my last A Frame ball joint . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Could you imagine the industrial accident you could have with one of those? I bet those large presses are actually really easy to break if you load them up wrong tbh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertspark Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 I've got a 20t if you want to drop whatever you need pressing by my work you can pick it up the next day no probs .... If you can't get it in with a 20 it's probably not ment to go in on a LR.... Tempted to change the jack on mine to a pneumatic one I went with one of these http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/200647032212?nav=SEARCH. Really impressed and happy, could and probably should have made one in hindsight, hey ho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted March 13, 2015 Author Share Posted March 13, 2015 That's very kind too ! Thank you I've been looking at this one on eBay ; http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=161633158420 Quite local to us and cheap to boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertspark Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Yup that looks exactly the same as mine same colours too black and red in the same places Can later change the jack to pneumatic for about £50 http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/301340362650?nav=SEARCH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UdderlyOffroad Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I went with one of these http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/200647032212?nav=SEARCH. Really impressed and happy, could and probably should have made one in hindsight, hey ho. Interesting. I was going to gather some steel to make one. But by the time I've acquired the steel and the jack, painted it, etc...doubt I'll save much out of £150. If I may, why do you think you should've made one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertspark Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I don't think that at £120 you could beat that cost building it yourself However I've always thought that the manual jack is a bit of a waste and I should have had the option to swap it for a pneumatic jack at £30 extra over cost I have a welder and a plasma cutter so when you have the tools to hand you kind of think there is little else in it if you can source steel offcuts cheaper than buying specific lengths of steel Again at 120 you would struggle to beat that cost plus depends what value you put on your own free time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Brock Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I had a 10 Ton one and could have done with more several times and had to farm it out ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CwazyWabbit Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I don't think that at £120 you could beat that cost building it yourself However I've always thought that the manual jack is a bit of a waste and I should have had the option to swap it for a pneumatic jack at £30 extra over cost I have a welder and a plasma cutter so when you have the tools to hand you kind of think there is little else in it if you can source steel offcuts cheaper than buying specific lengths of steel Again at 120 you would struggle to beat that cost plus depends what value you put on your own free time Unless you were to use something like reclaimed RSJ's I think you'd be hard pressed ( pun intended ) to get materials at a price to beat that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW8IZR Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 Unless you were to use something like reclaimed RSJ's I think you'd be hard pressed ( pun intended ) to get materials at a price to beat that. And if you make it yourself you tend to over engineer it a bit, which for a press is a good thing. I had a cheap 10t press which I weighed in when scrap was at a high price :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynic-al Posted March 13, 2015 Share Posted March 13, 2015 I have the 30t version of the £120 one linked. Can't fault it for the price. Turned up when they said it would. Construction is acceptable for the price. Would be nice if there was a pressure gauge but again, for the price... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UdderlyOffroad Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 Again at 120 you would struggle to beat that cost plus depends what value you put on your own free time This. I enjoy fabbing up things, but time in the workshop is getting ever more precious. Thanks all, decision made. Anyone made a press brake yet, in the style of the SWAG Offroad kits?: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertspark Posted March 15, 2015 Share Posted March 15, 2015 short answer from me, no not made one. longer answer, think its been done on Pirate4x4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Pqq_UY1S0 http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/shop-tools/1069653-c-frame-press.html (the bending tooling is on the next page after the "C" press.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hO4SX4f1b0 (concept the same and a few good tips here). Looks like a really good full (start -> finish) post here http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/communities/mboard/showthread.php?23321-My-DIY-press-brake-1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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