Stauffer Linda on tue 13 nov 07
My husband built the tile press in Frank Giorgini's book. I want to
modify it to use a bottle jack or some other device since I am unable
to apply sufficient pressure due to arthritic shoulders. Has anyone
modified his plan or have any suggestions?
Linda
The Katie Stauffer Memorial Arts Center
"We should love people and use things, not love things and use people."
Katie Stauffer 1983-2003
iglasgo on mon 19 nov 07
I had the same problem with mine. I tried disassembling it and moving
the works closer to the fulcrum. The idea was to get less travel out
of the plunger but more leverage out of the handle. I still wasn't
satisfied with it though. It just took too many chin-ups to get an
impression made.
At Northerntool.com I bought a 2-ton bearing press. The press was
cheap but the shipping was not. Out of the spare parts from the
Giorgini press I built a little support plate and plunger and attached
them to the bearing press. I bolted the bearing press to my table and
that was that. It's working great for me. My only problem with this
setup is that I have had to change from using #1 pottery plaster molds
to Hydrostone because the pressure of the press tends to break the
plain plaster molds. The Hydrostone doesn't release as easily/quickly
as plain plaster but I dust my clay blanks with cornstarch and this
speeds up release quite a bit.
Hope this helps
-Ivy G.
--- In clayart@yahoogroups.com, Stauffer Linda wrote:
>
> My husband built the tile press in Frank Giorgini's book. I want to
> modify it to use a bottle jack or some other device since I am unable
> to apply sufficient pressure due to arthritic shoulders. Has anyone
> modified his plan or have any suggestions?
>
> Linda
>
> The Katie Stauffer Memorial Arts Center
>
>
> "We should love people and use things, not love things and use people."
> Katie Stauffer 1983-2003
>
>
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