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Went for less than I thought it would, so am pretty chuffed! Appears to be all Di-Acro stuff, with a possibility that the bar folder is not, though it hardly matters. I suspect the latter is a Pexto, which is as well made as any!
Have been wanting an 18 inch bench box and pan brake for a coon's age, and by chance, was looking through the listings at an auction yard we drove past, a few weeks back, and saw a 24 inch set, of sheet metal tools, a box and pan brake, a bench shear, and sheet roller, along with a Corner Notcher, and bar folder, all mounted on a pretty skookum table! Honest to gods, Industrial grade tools, built to be used in a production environment!
I used a lot of the smaller Di-Acro stuff when I was deployed overseas, fixing helicopters in Bosnia, as well as in our deployable 'Field' workshops, set up in what can best be described as an industrialized 'camper', mounted on a 2 1/2 ton truck, and have been trying to find a brake, in particular, ever since. Needless to say, I was pretty excited to see this auction lot surface, even if the tools are in less that factory new condition! We also had one of the 3-in-1 Press brake, rolls, and shear, combo tools in our gear, so I had plenty of time playing with one of those, to get a handle on strengths and weaknesses!
Di-Acro still makes the stuff, but you pretty much need to REALLY want it, or be spending someone else's money these days to buy them.
Now I gotta figure out getting it home!
Ooops! LOL!
The stuff is kinda grubby looking, but a whizz with a wire wheel should take care of cleaning up the worst of it, and I see some detailed strip downs in my summer plans, along with a couple layers of new paint, if I can find some decent industrial enamel.
The table may get re-used as a welding table, if I do not see fit to stick it in a spot in the shop where it can be used for the sheet metal tooling. By the time you put enough space around the table to work on all the machines, it eats some serious real estate!
Went for less than I thought it would, so am pretty chuffed! Appears to be all Di-Acro stuff, with a possibility that the bar folder is not, though it hardly matters. I suspect the latter is a Pexto, which is as well made as any!
Have been wanting an 18 inch bench box and pan brake for a coon's age, and by chance, was looking through the listings at an auction yard we drove past, a few weeks back, and saw a 24 inch set, of sheet metal tools, a box and pan brake, a bench shear, and sheet roller, along with a Corner Notcher, and bar folder, all mounted on a pretty skookum table! Honest to gods, Industrial grade tools, built to be used in a production environment!
I used a lot of the smaller Di-Acro stuff when I was deployed overseas, fixing helicopters in Bosnia, as well as in our deployable 'Field' workshops, set up in what can best be described as an industrialized 'camper', mounted on a 2 1/2 ton truck, and have been trying to find a brake, in particular, ever since. Needless to say, I was pretty excited to see this auction lot surface, even if the tools are in less that factory new condition! We also had one of the 3-in-1 Press brake, rolls, and shear, combo tools in our gear, so I had plenty of time playing with one of those, to get a handle on strengths and weaknesses!
Di-Acro still makes the stuff, but you pretty much need to REALLY want it, or be spending someone else's money these days to buy them.
Now I gotta figure out getting it home!
Ooops! LOL!The stuff is kinda grubby looking, but a whizz with a wire wheel should take care of cleaning up the worst of it, and I see some detailed strip downs in my summer plans, along with a couple layers of new paint, if I can find some decent industrial enamel.
The table may get re-used as a welding table, if I do not see fit to stick it in a spot in the shop where it can be used for the sheet metal tooling. By the time you put enough space around the table to work on all the machines, it eats some serious real estate!
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), but it was an easy unsticking with some ed's red and gentle persuasion. It's missing the handles, and about ~6" of fingers, but they are not too bad of a project (if I ever get to them). I'm just going to make one long one to fill the gap as the rest are small fingers. I've never done much sheet metal work, just simple brackets, and guards etc, so I've never had a big need to clean it up and finish the fingers, as it works as is for anything I've needed thus far. The shear is in better ok condition, just a rusty table. Blade is still decently sharp and will shear full width cleanly. It also was free from the same same deal. Hoarder packed a barn with stuff, and the owner just wanted it gone after he stopped paying rent. I missed out on some other good tools before they went to scrap (beaver wood lathe, belt/disc sander) and probably a few more before I found out about it. All school shop stuff too. 
