I find myself in need of a hydraulic bench press. Something like this one, from Machine Mart, would do
However, it's £250 and I don't want to spend anything like that much. Plus, I don't have a lot of space, so I'd prefer something a bit more compact.
I already have one of their 10 tonne body repair kits:
As far as I can see, the press uses the same ram and pump as the body repair kit, so I have the main bits already, I would just need to fabricate a stand and a means of retaining the ram.
Looking in the Clarke manual for the press, it just has a collar, labelled part 11.
The ram in my body kit has a thread on the cylinder, which I've measured at 2 1/4" diameter with a pitch of 14 TPI
I'm wondering is there's anyone out there who has a Clarke press could measure the thread on the end and let me know it it is indeed the same ram as the one in my kit.
If so, I will just buy part 11 from Clarke's spares department & make the rest myself.
(I would turn the threaded collar myself, but my lathe will only cut a limited number of metric threads).
Thanks a lot
