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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 214659, member: 54&quot;]Haven&#039;t noticed anything that stands out, will look harder when near it again.But now u got me looking at da pichurs agin-</p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at first one at that monkey-motion gizmo on the left, the press-powered rack is geared via pinion (behind that stuff) into CW rotation of the upper, larger of the two grooved rollers.&nbsp; The upper roller is fixed to the vertical flat piece with a big hexhead adjusting screw out of its top.&nbsp; So the upper master roller rotates CW and u can see the circular path the flat piece makes in the grease.&nbsp; The jaws are probably operated manually by the long lever.&nbsp; Where the jaws bite is shaped kinda like the cutout near the end of the lock shackle.&nbsp; So I guess the operator squeezes a blank in the jaws and when they are closed, starts the ram and thus the CW rotation of the flat thing to make the bend between the two grooved rollers, top one is master and lower one is slave, although if there&#039;s a lower gear I can&#039;t see, both wheels are powered.&nbsp; Top rotates CW and bottom, CCW.&nbsp; I think the blank would already have the D shaped cutout in the end because I don&#039;t see a proper mechanism here to form it.&nbsp; The part on which long lever is mounted may move laterally in its groove, but dunno.&nbsp; Will go play with it someday soon and see what really moves where, have not touched it yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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