lowbuck louver press

im wanting to order a WILLIAMS LOWBUCK LOUVER PRESS ... what have you all herd about this equipment? for a personal use, i think it looks great, and with having to fabricate the c throat, i can make it to meet my needs. and there cheap also. just looking for opinions
thanks

 

I got no info for you but ill bump it up in the hopes that need louvers? Replys.


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Good unit, I have been using mine for 4 years now. No problems.

 

Having owned a louver press and have done 1000's of punches, dont expect to much quality that you could start doing them for others and start charging money.
Dave is a great guy and realy has made a difference to this hobby with affordable tools, but they tend to favor the do it just for yourself type of hobbyest.
The drawback to his dies is that there is no holdown bar on the punch itself and once the punch gets a little worn or slop the die wont cut clean and start to rip.Progresivly the spacing gets bigger and now it looks like **** because nothing lines up. My punch had a replacable tool steel blade and a back bar to hold the metal from twisting as the punch came down into a die that had rubber in it to shape the metal.
Mittler Bros has a better louver die set package.

 

im more into doing it for my car, a friend or two.. thats about it. they claim the dies are re sharpenable


http://www.lowbucktools.com/MM6.html

 

Then its perfect, but in doing a hood , you are going to need lots of hands and sombody to pull the handle. Start with a s**** hood first and you will have to strip the paint off both sides to get a clean cut. The pix show flat aluminum which is far different that a steel hood. dont even think about stainless.

 

I will keep that in mind. Thanks alot for the advice... Glad someone with experience chimed in. I've never punched a louver. Operated many press brakes and punches so it should come out ok

 

But have you ever punched a curve? Totaly different since its moving around. By having a hold down bar on the back of the punch and punching it into a shaped die backed by a rubber insert one is streching the material into shape whereas the LB is just pushing material noticable in the pix by the wrinkles around the louvers. It all depends on what type of finnish you and others are after.