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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tom Maringer, post: 178455, member: 7033&quot;]<b>Finding a press...</b></p><p><br /></p><p>If you look on eBay, use the search term &quot;screw press&quot;, or &quot;fly press&quot;. There are several up there at any one time. One of the dealers, Gold International Machinery of Rhode Island has a Garrigus screw press up there right now that looks quite similar to one mf mine. They&#039;re asking $1,499 for it. I would guess it is probably a 30 to 40 ton capacity... so it would do penny to nickel size stuff. If I didn&#039;t have several of the things here already I&#039;d probably look at it more closely. The kind of questions I&#039;d ask are: how many leads on the screw (three or more is good), and what sort of die-holders are provided at top and bottom. Cliff Davis at Gold&#039;s is pretty good at answering questions. <a href="mailto:cdavis@goldmachinery.com">cdavis@goldmachinery.com</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Also search eBay on the word &#039;coining&#039;. Gold&#039;s also has a much more sophisticated coining set-up available... for $18,950... for a pair of presses... one for blanking and the other for striking. The blanking press is a basic punch-press with coil-feed. The striking press is a 330 ton CMC hydraulic... which would certainly do up to silver dollar size or even larger. It would be an awsome set-up. It&#039;s not cheap, but not outrageous either.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you google-search or otherwise locate the Gold International Machinery website you can search their inventory. They have lots and lots of ancillary equipment, such as blanking presses (punch presses), rimmers, rolling mills, furnaces, tumblers, lathes, and hobbing presses. One you might want to look at is stock #1820, a Zeh &amp; Hahnemann #7 Percussion Screw Press. I have one of these that I got from them and I love it! You can see the one I have at my website &#039;workshop tour&#039; page. It&#039;s about a 60 ton and will do up to quarter size coins pretty reliably. It is basically a motor-assisted screw press, so it&#039;s a whole lot easier on the back and arms than the manual type screw presses. You&#039;ll need three-phase power for these large machines. Converters are available if you don&#039;t have three-phase available from the power company. </p><p><br /></p><p>Also in Gold&#039;s inventory are a number of Adams C-frame screw presses. These are fine for light work... such as counterstamping, collar-extracting, and blank-punching, but they are not powerful enough to strike a coin larger than a widow&#039;s mite. </p><p><br /></p><p>A basic rule of presswork is that you never want to run your equipment routinely to capacity... that is... if you need 50 tons for a long-running project... you should not try to use a 50 ton press for the job. Once in a while is maybe okay, but if you push things to their limit consistently you WILL break something. Use the 100 ton press for the 50 ton job, and it will last forever.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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