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Re: Shop Press?

To: Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>, shop-talk@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Shop Press?
From: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 05:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
--- Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com> wrote:

> I did just recently replace the bottle jack with a
> pneumatic one to 
> save my shoulder.
> 

So, how hard do you have to pull on the handle to get
20 tons of pressure?  Obviously these cheap presses
don't have a pressure gauge, but I guess you could
calculate the total leverage and know the relationship
between force on the jack handle to force at the
ram...


Doug




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