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Landslide said:
Plate hooks are good to use as long as you don’t need every square inch of that plate steel. They tend to leave nice teeth marks. But I like using them too
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Im not sure of the cup size yet but they look to be 8in dia.

Plate hooks i use aren't the grippers your thinking of.

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I'll have to measure the cups tomorrow, but i think they are 10 or 12's.

Linkslide would probably **** himself if he saw the pieces of glass I've positioned using power cups. Saftey margin on those has to be at least 1.5X.
 
ThePanzerFuhrer said:
Probably paid less than I did for my old ass 50ton Dake :homer: :lmao:
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Was $1800 shipped.

Press prices are crazy. 20ton hand pumper $250-$500 New or used, dont really matter :homer:

50's started around $1600ish

You rarely see an old Dake or anything but janky homebuilt stuff around here or sale. I've been looking for a while. Last shop had one that the cylinder slid across the top, and man was that nice.
 
Steve300xcw said:
Was $1800 shipped.

Press prices are crazy. 20ton hand pumper $250-$500 New or used, dont really matter :homer:

50's started around $1600ish

You rarely see an old Dake or anything but janky homebuilt stuff around here or sale. I've been looking for a while. Last shop had one that the cylinder slid across the top, and man was that nice.
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Yeah I got my 50t Dake for 1800 off FBMP. I had been looking for a year or two to get one to pop up in my area.
 
Steve300xcw said:
Was $1800 shipped.

Press prices are crazy. 20ton hand pumper $250-$500 New or used, dont really matter :homer:

50's started around $1600ish

You rarely see an old Dake or anything but janky homebuilt stuff around here or sale. I've been looking for a while. Last shop had one that the cylinder slid across the top, and man was that nice.
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I've had great luck with my Harbor Freight 50 ton press. Looks like they are $1500 now, but I swear I paid around $800 for it shipped when I got mine. I actually bought two of them with those old 25% off special coupons. Lol.
 
Dethmachinefab said:
Im not sure of the cup size yet but they look to be 8in dia.

Plate hooks i use aren't the grippers your thinking of.

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Yeah I’m not to sure about those. Steel on steel is like walking on black ice.

These are a couple I got. J have a normal sized one for .25~.5” plate.

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'nother .gov surplus auction woodworking tool score. Got a decent Powermatic No. 60 8" jointer for about $150. Should go well with my scrapyard planer from a few weeks ago. :smokin:

It was another one of those lazy .gov workers that couldn't be bothered to take more than one ****ty picture and couldn't answer simple questions like if it was single or 3 phase or what voltage it was wired for. I didn't even know it was a Powermatic or what size it was until I picked it up. :shaking: I was expecting it to be 3 phase, but it's definitely single. I need to pop the motor open and figure out if it's 120 or 240.

One of the knives has a little ding in it, but not horrible. They may be reversible, but otherwise are cheap. Or I can pick up a helical head for about $450.
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Bauer one **** the bed, so picked up a new portaband today. This thing ****in rips, and the trigger control is the real mvp. Start the cut ultra slow, regardless of speed dial setting, and then send it once established.

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bgaidan said:
'nother .gov surplus auction woodworking tool score. Got a decent Powermatic No. 60 8" jointer for about $150. Should go well with my scrapyard planer from a few weeks ago. :smokin:

It was another one of those lazy .gov workers that couldn't be bothered to take more than one ****ty picture and couldn't answer simple questions like if it was single or 3 phase or what voltage it was wired for. I didn't even know it was a Powermatic or what size it was until I picked it up. :shaking: I was expecting it to be 3 phase, but it's definitely single. I need to pop the motor open and figure out if it's 120 or 240.

One of the knives has a little ding in it, but not horrible. They may be reversible, but otherwise are cheap. Or I can pick up a helical head for about $450.
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Nice, my 8” Rockwell jointer came from GovDeals. Got it cheap too and it came with a bunch of extra new blades
 
Dethmachinefab said:
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Got the Anver vac lifter today. Worked great. I saw some rusty water come through the lines and out of the cups. So it ended up getting totally disassembled, parts cleaned up, and the barrel where the diaphragm is wire wheeled and painted.
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Man. 2 suction cups would make me Leary of lifting sheet metal up. Not enough cups for me, but I’m not using it so. Just be careful and never trust it
 
Landslide said:
Man. 2 suction cups would make me Leary of lifting sheet metal up. Not enough cups for me, but I’m not using it so. Just be careful and never trust it
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That one should lift 600# if the pump is in good working order.
 
bdkw1 said:
That one should lift 600# if the pump is in good working order.
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Its an m100 barrel. Everything looked decent once I cleaned it out.

More concerned about the spread and larger flexible sheets. If I can add cups that would be cool.
 
Dethmachinefab said:
Problem is I want to use it on multiple size sheets.
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Ours has shut of switch's for the outer cups. If we need an odd one cut, we've got a couple pieces of .030 aluminum we just stick to the floating cup.

Edit, may not be practicle without floating cups. This one the cups will move up and down a couple inches. Good for grabbing **** that's not flat or real flexy. The glass power cups are rigid mounted, if we're setting curved panels we have to use hand cups and sling them.
 
Dethmachinefab said:
Problem is I want to use it on multiple size sheets.
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One I used had 8 decent sized cups on it. You could shut off the suction line to what ever cup you didn’t use (like smaller sheet steel. They could slide on a cross tube as well so you could narrower them down depending on size sheet. But large sheets like 5’x12’ needed them all spread out to support the entire sheet of steel.
 
bdkw1 said:
Ours has shut of switch's for the outer cups. If we need an odd one cut, we've got a couple pieces of .030 aluminum we just stick to the floating cup.

Edit, may not be practicle without floating cups. This one the cups will move up and down a couple inches. Good for grabbing **** that's not flat or real flexy. The glass power cups are rigid mounted, if we're setting curved panels we have to use hand cups and sling them.
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Yeah ours were floating design. Never thought about glass panels needing to be rigid. Never messed with glass tho
 
betting the 47" is the height

usually little guys like that go for at least a hundred bucks
the big ones go for way less, got a couple for $1 starting bid and 20 dollar loading fee because nobody else wanted to move them, 4x6', 12" thick, four ledge
been sinking into the yard for maybe fifteen years now
 
[486] said:
betting the 47" is the height

usually little guys like that go for at least a hundred bucks
the big ones go for way less, got a couple for $1 starting bid and 20 dollar loading fee because nobody else wanted to move them, 4x6', 12" thick, four ledge
been sinking into the yard for maybe fifteen years now
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Great front porch!
 
[486] said:
betting the 47" is the height

usually little guys like that go for at least a hundred bucks
the big ones go for way less, got a couple for $1 starting bid and 20 dollar loading fee because nobody else wanted to move them, 4x6', 12" thick, four ledge
been sinking into the yard for maybe fifteen years now
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I’m not really sure their auction values, but eBay has small one like the 12”x12” listed for a few hundred bucks. Bigger they are, the more the prices are.

I can see something as large as yours shuts a lot of people out. Not many people have a fawk around shop large enough for a Bridgeport and a lathe much less a huge surface plate. I have room for the one I bought and I didn’t think I did bad on it for that price, even after you tryin to steal my thunder.

Btw, your surface plate is out of level
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Most people don't need a plate bigger than ~12x12. 99.9% of automotive **** a straight edge is fine anyway.

What I wish I had was an 8ft table on my bridgeport so I could keep more **** set up on it. :laughing:
 
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