"Winston" wrote in message
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WayneJ wrote:
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:32:32 -0700, Winston
wrote:

Ignoramus26236 wrote:
Would anyone have an idea what is this press supposed to be for.
http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Press/
It is a little dull looking because it had some rust on it that I
removed. It looks like a neat device.
i

Heck of a nut cracker.

(I dunno.)

--Winston

It is indeed a nut cracker. I remember seeing the plans in an old copy of
Home Shop Machinist or a similar magazine

nov/dec 2004 hsm by Rudy Kouhoupt
http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/arc...p/t-13154.html
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...p/DSC01065.jpg

WooHOO! (Happy Dance)

--Winston

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I'm still waiting for another sublime, transcendent flash of adequacy.

Sorry to disagree, but I am quite positive that the thing Iggy shows is NOT
the nutcracker - for one, an elderly friend of mine has one lying around,
and it's been lying around since long before 2004 - this item has some other
application and whatever it is, no one has identified it yet - if I had to
guess, I'd say it's for pressing bearings into something, possibly a U
joint, but I'm not sure either