And got this. It is a pnuematic press of some sort, but it will be very easy to convert it into a planishing hammer. It looks like the top is a big rig air brake pot. It has a lot of power. Look what it did to a chunk of tubing with one stroke. Anybody have any good ideas for using it the way it is now? Other than a giant can crusher.
Looks cool! I just fired up my freebie Electric Motor outta a gas pump, 1750 RPM, fully sealed, looked like new inside. I am either going to power my vintage belt driven drill press or build a multi sander!
Cool, looks like my rivet press, aside from the air brake deal. but now to the important question, what's that truck in the background?
I'm pretty sure thats what it is. It makes one punch per tap on the pedal, but it is kind of controllable. It is going to be real easy to mount a air hammer in place of the brake chamber, then just replace the lower die. It is our '69 International we just inherited.
I have used those brake diaphram units many times before in place of air cylinders for clamping parts etc. on machinery. They develop about 2500 pounds of force at 90 psi air pressure. If you make it into a planishing hammer, keep the stroke short or you will be replacing the diaphram often. It will also be very slow as the diaphram is retracted with a spring. Also, make sure the clamp that holds the two halves together is on properly, had one blow apart and the cap half flew clear across the shop.
It is indeed a brake rivet machine. The air chamber-unless it's something off road in a coal mine or something - is NOT off of a highway truck. WAAAY to big.
Looks like a brake shoe rivet machine for big truck stuff. Can you tone the power down so the planishing hammer doesn't hit the workpiece so hard? Fww, here's a pic of an auto sized shoe riveter. Not sure what to do with it, it came with a few rivets and some additional anvils & punches. Wish I would have had it a few years back. My 50 Plymouth coupe - stock except for 12 volts - badly needed the drivehaft mounted E-brake shoe replaced.
could make a nice shrinker/stretcher, just add a way of holding the jaws, i have used 6" chambers to make a press for punching holes, had a 3 to 1 lever.
Quote["And got this. It is a pnuematic press of some sort, but it will be very easy to convert it into a planishing hammer. It looks like the top is a big rig air brake pot. It has a lot of power. Look what it did to a chunk of tubing with one stroke. Anybody have any good ideas for using it the way it is now? Other than a giant can crusher."] Quote I saw one of those in the Urologists office the other day..... Scared the ****tttttt out of me ! Cob
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