20 ton pancake ram

[Frank S]

I have a formed part that was over broke beyond true 90°. I have a few 4T and one 10 ton porter power the spreaders though only have 1/2ton of force but it takes considerably more than that to spread the bend on 3/8" grade 70 steel. What I needed was a pancake ram with enough force to spread out the bend. I made a pair of 20 ton rams for this but only used 1 and a lot of bolts as jack bolts to hold the leg of the beam spread