What am I? by MATRIX7 posted Aug 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM What am I? by MATRIX7 posted Aug 9, 2018 at 3:46 PM Hi all, I have a these heavy duty metal frames in my dad’s barn and I’m wondering what they are. I thought somebody had said something like they were an arbor press, but I couldn’t google anything that matched their description. I know one of them is some sort of 20 ton press and the other one is a frame for something? Any ideas of what they are called? Thanks!
Hmmm. The one with the wrench on top is certainly a 20 ton press, can press anything you can fit under the plate that supports the green jack. Other one I dunno, looks like some parts are missing because it doesn’t really “do” anything now. If it is remains a mystery I can ask some machinists.
I’ve borrowed the photo and asked the machinists on our club listserv. Meanwhile, do you own the RR track sections, r u gonna sell ‘em, if so where do u live?
While the machinists are thinking about it, my guess is that the 2nd one was custom-made for mime training. Mime trainees’ wrists were each strapped to one of the perforated top pieces, then the mime was told to place his hands as if he or she was pressing on a glass window. After as little as 17 weeks of training the mime could give a very realistic portrayal of someone pressing on a glass picture window. The device probably fell into disuse after the nationwide mimophobia epidemic of 1966.
The base is missing. It was round and had ball bearings so the top could revolve. Every week the angle of the top part was changed so mime trainees could learn how to do their palms-on-invisible-glass thing in any direction.
