Vintage denture press - many shop/industrial/craft uses

Vintage denture press - many shop/industrial/craft uses

MANY AUTO SHOP/INDUSTRIAL/GENERAL SHOP/CRAFT USES
I bought two of these in an estate sale; this sale is for the last one of them. Surviving son told me that his father was a dentist and used these presses decades ago to make dentures. Great for the auto shop, machine shop, crafts shop, general shop, factory, other business, and home as a press, clamp or vise. Weighs about 13 lbs. Height is 10.5" when cranked all the way down. Handle is 11.5" long, which can of course be extended for greater pressing power using a pipe extension. Plate area is 7" X 4" (upper round press plate is 4" in dia.). Clearance can be varied from 1" to 5-1/8" for thick objects. Horizontal clearance is 4-1/2" wide, so it easily takes 2x4 amd 4x4 lumber and 4" pipe. Worm screw is 3/4" thick steel. While I have had it cranked down to several 100s of pounds of pressure, best I could tell, it was not even close to its limit (which is not stated on is unknown). The screw-press does have surface rust on it but as far as I can tell, the does not appreciably affect either its operation or maximum applied force. However, since neither the base nor the bottom of the round upper press plate is real smooth, the user might want to slide in 1/4" - 1" thick hardwood, pressed board, metal, plastic or rubber surfaces, according to what suits his/her needs best when smooth contact is required. Can be easily mounted on a work bench, work table, pick up truck bed, RV, van, camper, etc.
Just consider some of the practically unlimited clamp, vise and press functions that a press like this can do for you with the appropriate dies and forms (no dies or forms come with it): (1) Flattening metal, bending metal, forming metal, shaping metal, and swaging metal. (2) Pressing on patches, silkscreens, logos, signatures, boiler plates, etc. (3) Using "cookie cutter" type dies to cut out or punch either cold or hot shapes in wood, plastics and light metals. (4) Printing press. (5) Crushing or pulverizing rocks, bones and other crushable objects and materials for mechanical geological, archaeological, paleontological, forensic, chemical, biological, biomedical, etc. applications. (6) Press fitting gears, pins and rivets. (7) As a punch press. (8) Embossing images and lettering into just about anything that can fit into it that is wood, plastic and thin/soft metals. (9) Pressing and laminating flowers and leaves and other collectibles. (10) For many other glue or cement jobs. (11) Compacting items. (12) Holding items secure for just about any reason, such as for sawing, drilling, threading (e.g. rods, plumbing pipe).
You simply cannot go another day without having this highly versatile, useful and heavy duty tool in your shop, factory, business or laboratory!
NOTE: Later availability not guaranteed. LIMITED QUANTITY. UNIQUE ITEM. I only have one of this Item left.
Seller listing codes: LD061, LR000-S00, LS092-R10, MM000, CC000.