G'day everyone,

I have been working on this project in the background since late January, and I can finally show it to you. Every year I like to do a big multi part project, last year was the machinist vise and this year I will attempt to make a fly press.

A fly press is a screw operated press with a flywheel or weight to help produce momentum and a large impact force on the part you are trying to press. My design will also develop more force than a similar sized arbor press.

The reason for this project is that I don't own a press. Never needed one until I seriously picked up hobby machining, and I thought a fly press would be a fun design to make and share with you. Unlike a normal fly press which is a solid casting of steel, my one will be comprised of many welded steel plate. It will be unconventional, but that just adds to the charm.

For this project I had to make the Big fly cutter, big tap set, the big tap wrench, the helical milling set up, the 2 piece split vise and the big v jaws. Plus I had to upgrade that lathe in order to machine the new screw.

In this first video I will make the base. The plan was to make the base and the frame, but the base was a lot more complicated to build than expected. I hope you enjoy the video.

Making A Fly Press
Building A Fly Press

#machining #diy #flypress

Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
3:43 - Making The Base Wider
8:24 - Making The Base Rounder
9:53 - Welding...
12:15 - Massive Fly Cutting
15:50 - Machining The Back
19:31 - T - slots