Who has made their own press?

I was looking at the HF ones last night but wasn't happy with the quality of them at all. I would like to build my own now. Who has pictures of their own home made presses? What did you use for the ram?
Thanks
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I made a small press for removing and replacing press fit piston pins. It was built from 2x2 1/4 wall square tubing and used a 6 ton small bottle jack. It worked very well. Return was via a set of hood springs. When i sold the shop equipment it was in the deal. I painted it and had a brass label made which i often do when i make things. I wonder if the fellow who bought the equipment knows it s homemade. I would make another in a flash if I needed one. Use a bottle jack and use a size easily available. You dont need 50 tons or even 15. 6 to 8 will do just about anything. For the press i described i bought the jack on sale for $6.95 at CTC. When it gave out after 5 or 6 years it was simple to replace and easy to find. I think the second one cast me about $11. (no sale on then)
Don

 

From 1939....

 

made this one around 7 years ago. mostly made out of scrap/offcuts etc. the winch came off my old boat trailer when i replaced it years before. the jack is a 30 ton import job, reckon it's good for maybe 20!! it was sold as an upside down jack but really it's just a normal jack that has been replumbed inside with an oil pickup to work inverted. i also reworked the action of the handle so you pull down to pump instead of push up which is how they come. mounted the jack on a slide so you can move it along side to side for when you get an odd shaped item in there. real handy idea and fairly easy to achieve.it's probably overbuilt but i figured i'm only doing this once. use it heaps for bending plate steel, bearing removal and fitting, straightening etc. invaluable..............chop

 

That is my dream press!Overbuilt whatever!That my friend is an impressive piece!

 

I have a big ol' one that a welder/fabricator built in the early '60s or so. It uses just about any hydraulic bottle jack. Looks alot like chopped35's, actually- winch on the side & all. But the jack isn't mounted upside down.

 

Scrap eh? Damn, I wonder what you would have built if you have new materials...
That press looks real sturdy and good!

 

I made one, bolted together like the Bonnydoon presses, with a spring return cylinder.

 

I like the 1939 one....But I think I like chopped35's better
I got a 12 ton bottle jack today from HF, and plan on picking up my steel sometime this week. Now to draft it up. I'm feelin good about this project
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