I found your video researching arbor press tooling but you are a hardcore blacksmith with a CNC mill that you do some quite advanced work with; very cool combination. That is quite rare from what I have seen. Great video, thanks!

@PowerForgeWorkshop

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Chris! I can certainly be accused of liking new and old tech. I enjoy it all.

Pretty sweet tool

@PowerForgeWorkshop

Ай бұрын

Thanks

Nice demo of your fly press and tooling. Thanks for sharing.

@PowerForgeWorkshop

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Nice video. I’ve got an Adams Brothers #2 in my shop and love it. I’d like to mimic that punch plate you made with the built in stripper. If you have more details you could share. Thanks for walking us through your stuff!

@PowerForgeWorkshop

3 ай бұрын

Sure. The critical dimensions are the punch is 20 mm x 5.5 mm and the die is 20.5 x 6 mm. I'll follow up with a video that will include the drawings.

Always love seeing what people come up with for the flypress! It's probably my favorite tool and the possibilities are endless. I have a corne bending setup similar to what you describe wanting and I actually do not like it very much. I have a bottom die from an ironworker bender that has 4 different depth right angles notched into it, the deepest being around 1.25" square, and a sharper top die that started as a hot cut (did not work, too much deflection for the geometry) but reshaped to an acute cornering die. I find that almost every time it overbends the material and the lack of a longer face to support it gives residual bending that takes more work to fix. Maybe having a two stage setup where it has a sharp top die like mine and final finishing die like yours would be the best of both worlds. I might make up one like you have and see how it compares

@PowerForgeWorkshop

5 ай бұрын

A two stage setup. What a great idea. The wheels are already turning. I know what you mean by over bending, that is part of the reason I built this set up. One of my biggest complaints with my current bender is the distance the top die has to travel. I don't know how many revolutions the flywheel takes, but I know I have to let go of the pull arm as the metal bends into the 90 degree shape. Ideally, I wouldn't have to let go. Ideally, the wheel would only travel half a revolution or so. With your two stage approach, perhaps one could have a starting die that indexed/rested on top of a deeper (finishing) die. Hmmm. Anyway, thanks for the comment. It will definitely be fun to improve what I've got.

@NineWorldsWorkshop

5 ай бұрын

@@PowerForgeWorkshop Cheers! I'd love to see what you come up with!