The Hydraulic Forging Press for the Blacksmith by Randy McDaniels • 200 pages, Full Color, Hardcover, 8.75' x 11.25' The hydraulic forging press is becoming increasingly important to the forging shop. This relatively small machine, which is often hand made, allows smiths to do many of the same operations as a power hammer while adding more control and expanding what one can do with hot metal. Over forty years ago a spark ignited Randy McDaniel's passion for forging hot metal. This has been a passion that continually grows. Seven years ago his exploration of hot metal evolved and he began specializing in work done with the hydraulic forging press.
Making a hydraulic forging press. 'Build Your Own Hydraulic Forging Press has a book on amazon. This is the link. This is a link to a PDF of Mathew D Walkers design. This is a video from Dragonfly Forge on a neat press no plans so far. I can share with you a few ideas.
Randy now creates all of his own tooling and dies which he uses to produce a line of unique items. He loves how the power of his sixty ton press pushes hot metal as if it were clay in his hands.
This blacksmithing book covers the history, the how to, and especially the versatility of the hydraulic forging press for the blacksmith and the knife maker. It provides a comparison between the press and other machinery, the different types of presses, which type of press is right for your application, should you build one or buy one, focuses on tooling that you can make to get the most out of your press and much, much more.
Large, full-color drawings and photographs of presses, items made on the press, and the tooling used is featured through out the blacksmithing book and in the gallery section. Award-winning author and blacksmith, Randy McDaniel has brought together an international group of collaborators to make Hydraulic Forge Press for the Blacksmith a useful and inspirational resource for anyone forging hot metal.
The only thing that concerns me is an air over Hydro project with out plans can kill a person fast! There are PSI ratings and things to consider and the ability to build the project. A simple mistake and a good friend lost his life over a cylinder rod going through his chest! Starting out it is easer to build from a known plan and work with that.
Now as for helping some one I do not mind to do so, however a drawn plan is better then ideas trials and earrors that a feller might not walk away from. The air over hydraulic is fine in this case, (harbor freight or northern tool air over hydraulic 20 ton jack) it is a prebuilt system with an over pressure device built into it and it is not getting modified, just fastened in. Knowing what I know about how pneumatics and hydraulics work I am positive a home built system could get very scary very fast. This jack, if I understand it right, provides rapid pulses, not a continuous operation, but it is fast enough that others have done this with some success. There have been a number built and posted here on IFI. If your frame is underbuilt and fails you cannot assume it will stay put.
A broken weld can create a projectile. I considered building one of these, but my material got used instead for a post vise stand. I had a more immediate need for the post vise stand.
(and it is handy!) Phil. I have built several air hydraulic forging presses and they work fine, they are not as fast as full size machine but they work great for small stuff. I have a video on youtube of mine in operation, it can squeeze a 1 in bar in half no problem.
I build hydraulic presses for a living and I just converted one of them to air over hydraulic and made a set of forging dies. I am building a 50 ton forging press with an enerpac cylinder and pump right now, it will be a table top version, I have also made some 100 ton coining presses using enerpac stuff. The only problem is they cost lots more than 200 bucks. Know what worries me?
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Folks who say; ' I`m not worried about the danger aspect'. Too often that translates into 'I really don`t care enough about being responsible for my own actions so when things go wrong someone else, who wasn`t even part of this (like my family), will take up my slack, possibly for a several years or decades to come'. I personally feel that folks who say that sort of thing ought to have their words engraved on their tombstone so the rest of the world can fully understand the mindset that put them under that stone. I just have a hard time understanding how any responsible person can say ' I have limited welding experience' and then go on to post pics of what is basically a time bomb backed by massive amounts of hydraulic pressure. This is exactly the reason why there are properly trained welders out there who make a living doing what they do. All I I can say is good luck to your friends and family, they`re gonna need it.