Improving hydraulic bottle jack

[tonyfoale]

Ye, I understand. Mine is also upside-down but the oil stays on the pressure side (top) of the ram cup.

Unless I misunderstand your earlier comments, yours is a proper stand alone hydraulic ram, in which case your comments were valid. However, I thought that it was clear that I was talking about an inverted bottle jack based press as I referenced in the top post. See here http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/i...5188#post81319

However, last night I made another separate post outlining my latest modifications which essentially convert a bottle jack to a simple single cylinder style of ram, albeit with an integral pump. So now there will be no leakage unless the cup seal leaks. If that happens there will be no mess because I have incorporated a drain.
See here: http://www.homemadetools.net/forum/m...op-press-64826