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Thinking back many years, a sheet metal guy I knew had an idea for stamping out metal roof tiles. He was never able to do it because of all the red tape requirements and expense involved to satisfy bringing a commercial product to market. But hey ho, perhaps punching out blanks for road signs or something similar in size could be profitable. 
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If you made up steel rule dies (I forget the proper name) you can cut leather, paper or whatever but in your case, I’m not sure that would be useful!
BFO press for laminating wood?
Donor for power pack and other shiney bits would be the case if I were offered it
BFO press for laminating wood?
Donor for power pack and other shiney bits would be the case if I were offered it
the process is called .. clicking ,, they use it in shoe making and saddle work.
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offer in buy or scrap value ?
scrap value as above and chop the machine up for a really good bender
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Looks like a die cutting press. What are the overall dimensions of the squashy plates? I might have a use for it,depending how much day light it has when fully opened
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I remember doing a job at Lockheed back in the 1970's on a press like the one in the Hugh Smith video, where a 1000 ton rubber pad press had broken one of the upright bolts. We had to remove part of the roof so a crane could lift the bolt out and place it on a flatbed truck to ship back to east where there was a lathe big enough to turn down the ends to a point, and then machine weld the two parts back together. It also took several of us pushing & pulling on about a ten foot cheater bar attached to the wrench to loosen up the nut, which was about 30" inches across the flats in order to remove the broken part near the foot of the machine. Two months later we had to take off the section of roof to crane the repaired bolt back in.
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Is it just me ,or does it look like the motor and pump have already been removed from the tank?
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Looks like it.
It's a press, we used to have a bigger version at my old works for cutting carpet tiles out, cutting die held in the top and a base plate to cut against (so the blades don't get knackered first cut). The pallet in it is to hold the head up. Yes it does like like the power pack has parts missing.
