Does anyone happen to recognise this one?
thanks,
chuck...
Does anyone happen to recognise this one?
thanks,
chuck...
It's been shop modified/repaired from something else. It was probably a small precision equipment machine shop tool originally.
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...
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.
Must have been a hard decision to butcher the capper. 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.
"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.
Thank you everyone, that is probably it! Now to figure out what to do with it!
cheers,
chuck...
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