Mounting dies on a 1 Ton Arbor Press?

[garypl]

1 minute ago, Double Daddy said:

At some point, I will do what you did to my arbor press ram...drill a nice deep hole with set screws on the side...so that I can use my leather stamps in it...best of everything! The magnetic chuck doesn't leave any room for such work once its in place and I'm not about to start chopping off all of my stamps to fit! That was the beauty of the drill press (lots of vertical room/adjustment AND a chuck to hold everything)...but it ultimately put too much stress on the table mount...at least in my case.

I agree - there is clearance for all  of my stamps, but some with the thinner shafts I have to put into a sleeve that is 3/8" OD, while some of the larger ones have shafts that are larger than 3/8", so I whack them with my mallet.  I mostly use the press to apply makers stamp and stamp letters.  Also works well for border stamps.  I think there is not much clearance on the smaller arbor presses to keep flexing to a minimum.  My friend has an  old 10 ton press that has about 12" under the ram, but the press is massive!

Gary