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gloat - Pen Press..... *LINK*

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gloat - Pen Press..... *LINK*

Fred in NC

>I have been using a homemade pen press made from an old hand drill stand, the kind that you put a hand drill on, and it works like a drill press.

Recently I ordered a close-out item from Grizzly, their item G9839, Hand Punch Press. It came in today (4 days UPS regular !). Cost $13.95 + $5.95 shipping.

This item seems to be more adaptable to the needs of a pen maker than anything I have seen before, even a regular arbor press. It has bolts that can be adjusted to limit the travel, a hole with set screw for a ram, and threaded holes to locate the poly or wood base for the pen barrel.

I am going to make a 'ram' from UHMW poly, and a base with a little hole in it for the pen tip. I will post some pics later on.

Grizzly told me this morning that they have a FEW more units available.


Arbor press

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Jack (Turtle Workshop)

>They still have some left. I reduced their inventory by 4. I got one for myself and 3 to be used as door prizes at our turning club.

Jack

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#3

SWEEEET...!

DW

>Fred..... thanks for the info. Just ordered one for the same reason! No more vice pressing for me!!

DW

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Joe Herrmann

>I've always used my drill press to assemble pens. I put the head of a bolt in the chuck jaws and use it just like an arbor press. Works great.

Joe

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Tom Mullane, Hagerstown, MD

>Been using the same press and love it... it is soooo much easier to assemble a pen in the verticle position than in horizontal....

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#6

Thought about doing that...

DW

>... But I like to keep my stations set up for production... unfortunately, I have a jig for drilling the blanks on the drill press and don't like to RR the darn thing if I don't have to.

Great idea though...

Now if only there was a mandrel that eliminated the tendancy to flex.... biggest issue though is quality control on the ID of the brass tubes...

DW

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Eaglesc

>I just got off the phone with Grizzly and ordered mine.

I didn't read far enough into your poat to see that you also posted the link.

The item number you posted is off by one digit.

I tried the search at grizz and kept coming up with a set of blades.

The correct # is:

G9839

Of course if you use the link it won;t be necessary.

Thanks for the tip!

(I've been using a Bessy Clamp and have had a few blow outs!)

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Eaglesc

>G0938

You gat me doing it!

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