Vintage percussion press - photo

**Altair** · Mar 18, 2021, 09:51 PM

Vintage percussion press.

Fullsize image: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...s_fullsize.jpg

Previously:

16th century Italian press - photo
Giant bolt head press - GIF
Industrial Age forging press - photo
Antique German forging press - photo
Hot forging press - video
1898 Turin factory machinery exhibition - photo

**desbromilow** · Mar 20, 2021, 06:11 AM

what's the difference between percussive and fly press? (other than missing the top flyweights)
where would you prefer one over the other?

**desbromilow** · Mar 20, 2021, 11:37 PM

OK - appropriate googling (and an really annoying youtube video) I now see that the this is the big half of a friction screw press - so in my understanding the piece missing from the top is the motor drive which moves the disk to make the ram move up and down. So the difference between it and a fly press is simply the drive to the screw.

Originally Posted by desbromilow

what's the difference between percussive and fly press? (other than missing the top flyweights)
where would you prefer one over the other?

**Karl_H** · Mar 20, 2021, 07:05 AM

I wonder why this is sitting in the front room.
"Mommy! Look what followed me home! Can I keep it?"

**Toolmaker51** · Mar 20, 2021, 10:42 PM

Originally Posted by Karl_H

I wonder why this is sitting in the front room.

For the same reason some joker tried to scoop my purchase of a Barrett-Cravens skid jack. Turns out, wanted it displayed in entryway of his restaurant for ogling by millennials and steampunk aficionados. Greasy, grimy, about 100 years old, completely mechanical; it's designer turning in his grave to comments of 'it's sooo cool'.