After @Screwdriver showing what a press could do in the way of bending I was thinking of buying a #2 fly press. Well I found 2 part meant it was able to exert 2 tons force. Aldi were selling off the small bottle jacks before lockdown so I bought one as you do!
5MT capacity bottle jack, bits of steel from when I used to go to work (skip diving ). Why not make a small hydraulic press which I could dismantle for storage.
Some of the raw materials
I love my Aldi bandsaw
Drill some 16mm holes 100mm apart for the location pins, the step drill gave 15.92mm hole so they were finished reamed to 16.
All drilled for location pins ready to clean up for welding.
Mock-up welded together and testing - no deflection on the beams and no more movement out of the jack
5MT capacity bottle jack, bits of steel from when I used to go to work (skip diving ). Why not make a small hydraulic press which I could dismantle for storage.
Some of the raw materials
I love my Aldi bandsaw
Drill some 16mm holes 100mm apart for the location pins, the step drill gave 15.92mm hole so they were finished reamed to 16.
All drilled for location pins ready to clean up for welding.
Mock-up welded together and testing - no deflection on the beams and no more movement out of the jack