Reed removal press

[pyro_fire60099]

And More of the same...

[pyro_fire60099]

the last one..

[Gnarly He Man]

So nice . . .

[Vern]

To make my little punch, I felt that I "cheated" by using my little bench-top milling machine which is available to few harmonica technicians.

Wally, did you "cheat" even more by using a lathe?  Is the tip of your punch hardened tool steel?

I found that the steel of which my screw was made wasn't hard/strong enough and the tip of the punch mushroomed and bent with repeated use.  I case-hardened the tip in the flame of a propane torch (using a carbon paste and a SS foil envelope) and it is now much more robust.

It will take as much machine work to adapt a chain breaker as it would to make a special-purpose rivet punch from scratch. The chain breaker is like filling a teacup with a fire hose or picking your teeth with a jackhammer.  ;o)

Vern

[pyro_fire60099]

Yeah Vern I can't help it, I have the machines and material to make things lol a fringe benefit, my punches are made from 4.0 long M-2 high speed steel, .1875 Dia. and the bushing I.D. is .1882  ad I use a spinner fixture to grind the punch down to .0395 Dia 3/16 long  blended into a 3/16 radius.

Vern I had to spin or turn case hardened screw and then to add a case hardness back to the tip, the down size to that for me has been some times this made stress cracks in the threads.

OK Tony Srgo had 2 chest mics he wanted to convert back to a Mic stand for Him and Dom.. so this is what I came up with, Once again I cheated.

                                                                                               Wally

[kc_liaw]

pyro.. you really blow out of my mind.. for donkey years i have a collection  like yours .. and deep in my mind i kind of sense that it can transformed into a reed press.. now that you make it realized.. see my collection below

[kc_liaw]

one more pic.. .. dear pyro.. are you able to help me on the additional parts ? i really wish my dream can become true..

[kc_liaw]

last pic... actually what is the original purpose of this tool..  can some one tells a bit  history of this baby  ?

[pyro_fire60099]

kc_liaw PM me as they say lol Yes I made all my parts and Yes I can help you with what you need. The punch base is from a Jeweler staking set, at least 30 years ago a friend of mind was going to throw it out and I saw it and the light bulb in my head went on, because of my trade this was a cake walk to make. check out the following site.   Wally

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0PDoKheBbBPm3gAuY2JzbkF?p=Jeweler+staking+set&sp=1&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t-701