Id suggest you take the ram out of the press (It’s very simple) and either take it to a machine shop or have someone bore/ drill (a flat bottom hole would be best) a shallow round hole in the end of it to fit a round/cylindrical magnet. Put some JB Weld adhesive in the hole and then press your magnet into the JB Weld, put weight on the assembly or clamp it, and voila!, the next morning you are done fiddling around with that loose bar magnet in between the ram end and your tooling. You want the magnet to end up flush with your ram so the person doing the boring needs both the magnet and ram to get the hole to the correct depth. An N52 neodymium magnet is the strongest for its size and what I would recommend.
Interesting use of the press. I've been looking at them. I have those magnets and a strip one I mounted to a board and use as a stitching station. Easy to put my needles, scissors, awl.
They do make pull down machines for stamps and hole makers for hand stitching. I've seen them on Amazon. I think the hf press would not leave enough gap for the material and the hole making tool unless you made it smaller.
I take it then that you modified the plate to fit your kam dies? Do you sell without the holes so those of us who do not have anything regarding Kam products?
Thank you for sharing. I added a quick release drill chuck to change punches etc.
It works well
Id suggest you take the ram out of the press (It’s very simple) and either take it to a machine shop or have someone bore/ drill (a flat bottom hole would be best) a shallow round hole in the end of it to fit a round/cylindrical magnet. Put some JB Weld adhesive in the hole and then press your magnet into the JB Weld, put weight on the assembly or clamp it, and voila!, the next morning you are done fiddling around with that loose bar magnet in between the ram end and your tooling. You want the magnet to end up flush with your ram so the person doing the boring needs both the magnet and ram to get the hole to the correct depth. An N52 neodymium magnet is the strongest for its size and what I would recommend.
Thank you. Great video and I had a hard time justifying a clicker when I knew it was an over priced arbor press.
Excellent, that's a big variety of uses. Thank you.
Thanks for the magnet idea, I can use my 2 yr old harbor press finally.
Thank you. I have an old one but works great. Love your videos
Harbor freight has an angle grinder you can use to shorten your tools for the press
So the tools do need to be shortened for the press?
Interesting use of the press. I've been looking at them. I have those magnets and a strip one I mounted to a board and use as a stitching station. Easy to put my needles, scissors, awl.
They do make pull down machines for stamps and hole makers for hand stitching. I've seen them on Amazon.
I think the hf press would not leave enough gap for the material and the hole making tool unless you made it smaller.
@@recentrelicsdesigns yeah I saw one that you could attach a chuck to.
Where can I get the magnets and do they break easy?
I just got an arbor press. Thanks for the video….where did you get your press plate?
The plate is available in my Etsy shop. The link is in the description.
Is the white base plate also from HarborFreight?
No, that is the part I sell in my Etsy shop.
I take it then that you modified the plate to fit your kam dies? Do you sell without the holes so those of us who do not have anything regarding Kam products?
Where did you get your arbor press?
I bought mine from harbor freight