Old Reloading Arbor Press

[chuck...]

Does anyone happen to recognise this one?

thanks,
chuck...

[1hole]

It's been shop modified/repaired from something else. It was probably a small precision equipment machine shop tool originally.

[chuck...]

The Shell holder on the bottom is removable as is the tool on the ram. So I suspect it is more like a current single stage press, however ancient.

thanks for looking!

cheers,
chuck...

[jaguarxk120]

It's a press made from a old bottle capper. The beer brewers know what it is, they use one to cap bottles when bottling up a fresh batch.

[ANeat]

It's a press made from a old bottle capper. The beer brewers know what it is, they use one to cap bottles when bottling up a fresh batch.


Yep; Looks like someone burtchered up a bottle capper.

http://www.rustycans.com/Graphics/Capper.jpg

[jaguarxk120]

Must have been a hard decision to butcher the capper.:cry: I can think of nothing better than spending a afternnon at the range and going home proping up my feet, poping the top off of a good beer to relax.

[1hole]

"Yep; Looks like someone burtchered up a bottle capper."

Uh-huh, that looks pretty much like the kind of "small precision shop" tool I expected.

[chuck...]

Thank you everyone, that is probably it! Now to figure out what to do with it!

cheers,
chuck...