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Manufactured/Badged by:
Canedy-Otto Manufacturing Co.
Downer's Grove, IL; Chicago Heights, IL; Great Lakes, IL

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Metal Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Other
Machine Size:
Submitted By:	Grigg Mullen

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	H frame screw press with arbor press
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Last Updated	6/7/2022 2:02:56 PM

Comments:

This press seems unusual, or at least hard to research as I haven't seen another, or a catalog listing for one yet.
Pretty self explanatory screw press with a ratcheting mechanism that allows tremendous pressure one click at a time with an over center type leverage (like vice grip pliers).
Also on one side is a small arbor press.

I bought this from an older fellow who restored Model A ford cars and had collected it somewhere decades prior and made good use of it in the meantime.
Oddly enough I went to visit this fellow to look at a camelback drill press and I end up coming home with a Canedy-Otto screw press instead. (a friend got the drill press, not Canedy-Otto brand)

It seems quite original, possibly even the wood planks it's bolted to.
I disassembled and cleaned the screw mechanism and regressed it. There is a large built in thrust bearing, the screw does not turn.
Missing a knob on the ratchet paw, I'd like to see another and make a copy. Fully functional without it however.

Not sure the tonnage but plenty so far for what I've done with it.

Initially I was looking for a hydraulic press for the shop but when this came along I couldn't pass it up. Not so sure I need a hydraulic press at this point, the screw press is strong, very good feel for what's going on, and it is slow in ratchet mode but that's OK.

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Comments: overview
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Comments: pressing kingpin from an axle, how many might it have done prior?
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Comments: bending some 3/4" x 3" steel
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Comments: result of the 3/4x3" bend, 3/4" inside radius
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