Ernie Leimkuhler has built what you are proposing.

http://www.stagesmith.com/gallery/sh...ess/index.html

Should be a good starting point, at least.

Cheers,

Kelley

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 04:22:33 GMT, SomeBody
wrote:

I'm about to move forward on a manually operated hydraulic press project
and was wondering some of the things that can be performed with such a
beast?

Hole punching? metal bending?

Know of any information out there that would be helpful?

What about making your own dies?

Thanks.