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This morning a couple of parcels arrived. The larger one was so heavy the delivery man had to ask me to help him with it. Can you guess what it is boys and girls?
I peeled the packaging off and started assembling in the dining room. You can see some of my girlfriend's collection of movie posters too.
It's a press. I got a 20 ton one because no self respecting Land Rover component is going to release itself with a mere 5 or 10 tons. You need to put some force on them. Here it is with the ram installed:
I haven't composed the shot quite right, so I've missed the cute little dial off the top that tells you how much force you've applied.
It took a while to work out how to get the hydraulics working - there was a little grub screw on the bottom of the gauge that needed removing and although it came with oil in the hydraulic components, it needed a bit of bleeding After messing about squashing bits of wood, and making it fight my bottle jack, I thought I'd do something useful. A propshaft UJ that wouldn't succumb to a couple of sockets in the vice:
There, that wasn't too hard. It let go at less than 5 tons with a satisfying crack.
This is going to help me do my suspension bushes in a few weeks time, which is what really prompted the purchase, but I'm looking forward to being able to apply some controlled pressure to things that are hard to do with a hammer and drift or in a cheap bendy Machine Mart vice.
I peeled the packaging off and started assembling in the dining room. You can see some of my girlfriend's collection of movie posters too.
It's a press. I got a 20 ton one because no self respecting Land Rover component is going to release itself with a mere 5 or 10 tons. You need to put some force on them. Here it is with the ram installed:
I haven't composed the shot quite right, so I've missed the cute little dial off the top that tells you how much force you've applied.
It took a while to work out how to get the hydraulics working - there was a little grub screw on the bottom of the gauge that needed removing and although it came with oil in the hydraulic components, it needed a bit of bleeding After messing about squashing bits of wood, and making it fight my bottle jack, I thought I'd do something useful. A propshaft UJ that wouldn't succumb to a couple of sockets in the vice:
There, that wasn't too hard. It let go at less than 5 tons with a satisfying crack.
This is going to help me do my suspension bushes in a few weeks time, which is what really prompted the purchase, but I'm looking forward to being able to apply some controlled pressure to things that are hard to do with a hammer and drift or in a cheap bendy Machine Mart vice.
