From Nils to Skills Uber Challenge - Compact Workshop Press

[Canobi]

Hi folks

I started figuring out a way to mount the bottle jack yesterday morning before going to work. After some tinkering I favoured using the remainder of the C channel to make two short lengths I can weld on either side of the frame to make the footing.

Initially I was going to drill holes in the base of the jack but opted to use a non destructive method instead. To that end I chopped a length of 50x50x5mm right angle into four equal widths of 50mm to make hold downs:



I then cleaned off the mill scale from the channel pieces for marking and centre punching, at this point I hadn't worked a system for the back end and as I'm having a drill crisis at the moment, I took the front parts with me and borrowed the drill press at work during my break times to drill out the holes.

I've been using the bottom of the press frame for mocking up and working things out:



This morning I took the remaining two right angle pieces and cut off most of one side. I had already centre punched them so made sure it was the blank side I was going to cut and left about 10mm to act as a riser, unlike the front hold downs, the rear ones will be bolted down vertically:


While it was on my grinder, I used the outside diameter of the grinding disc to cut a radius in the corner of the left side clamp to give some clearance:


I then marked out the clamp holes on the rear channel and centre punched them after taking this pic:


Here's the mock up of the arrangement:



I will be borrowing works drill press again for these parts as well later and will report back again soon.

Until then, TTFN