Arbor Press

58Chev · ETOBICOKE, ONT

Arbor Press

fatstax · COBOURG, ONT

u keeping or selling it?

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Great find 58,, I have never heard of that Jos. Gleal name. Neat that it is from Toronto, and the nice Maple Leaf is a collectible.
Wonder if the Numeral "3" stands for 3 ton??

The only other machine etc that had a maple leaf on it (that i know about, )was a company from Guelph or Galt a LONG time ago, named the "Perfect" Machine Co." It is believed they were bought out by the MacDougall Co. that made a lot of metal working machines.
Perfect Machine made some real nice old metal lathes, but if they made other machines it is not known so far. Virtualy no info has been found about the company to date.
Thanks for posting this.

hemi43 · ONTARIO

Nice piece, with quality cast iron.
I bought a 3 ton arbor press from Busy Bee and broke the casting in two trying to crack walnuts.

Fordy Acres Car Farm · DORCHESTER, ONT

That thing is a beast! Awesome!!!

dodge38 · MISSISSAUGA, ONT

Looks really good!

Almost like my Buffalo, 3 means 3 tons at least in my case and it really is heavy duty compared to some new 3 ton arbor presses, I also bought mine from a neighbor who is over 80 (!)

58Chev · ETOBICOKE, ONT

Hannu,
I like the fact that you still have the attachments with yours. Even the stand is neat.

Rochie · LONDON, ONT

drunk….HUH????

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Neat arbour presses. In one of my old tool/machine catalogs, they list arbour presses in there i think up to 40 ton.

JPB · AYLMER, ONT

Here's one I made in '90 / '91 @ Fanshawe General Machinist

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Neat arbour press!! A "One Off" keeper for sure!!

JPB · AYLMER, ONT

Cracks nuts @ Christmas about it, lol

Gazoo · BADEN, ONT

I made one of those also, it was pretty much a standard project back then. I remember making a ball peen hammer, a vise, a screw driver etc...
Honest to God, the size of the rack gear, to the length/dia. of the arm...

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Still, a nicely machined piece. How did you cut the rack?

Gazoo · BADEN, ONT

Oh yeah! We made a vise also.

Gazoo · BADEN, ONT

sasquatch wrote:
Still, a nicely machined piece. How did you cut the rack?

Back then, the racks were cut on a horizontal mill, with an arbor, and ground "woodruff'/T-slot cutter/slitting saw/side mill cutter", call it what you'd like, theoretically speaking, same tool.

-- Edited by Gazoo on Saturday 8th of March 2014 09:44:16 PM

sasquatch · NORTH BAY, ONT

Somewere i saw an arbour press still being sold, it was only rated at 1/4 ton, think it was used in a lab or electronics shop.