I Need You!

I Need You! For this short and anonymous survey. I need to collect some data for my engineering project this year. My teammates and I are designing a new type of hydraulic press frame for the home/DIY mechanic. The idea, so far, is to fabricate an affordable frame that will function as a hydraulic press with an automotive jack, a bottle jack, or a scissor jack (because most DIY mechanic have one of these three jacks, but not access to a press). If you have any ideas or remarks about it, please let me know, I am open to criticism. If any of you are professional mechanics and/or engineers and are willing to provide insight at certain points throughout the year that would be much appreciated!

https://goo.gl/forms/deFnaAWY9tcqlyPp2
^^this is the forum link, thank you!!

 

Be careful with your class work and don't into a plagiarism situation. It's not like you have a fresh idea here.

http://www.sears.com/grizzly-12-ton...Jay9VBVxhYeO6qKgk7zoaAtlk8P8HAQ&gclsrc=aw.ds#

And there are YouTubes on how to DIY using a variety of components. Some good, some not so much. Point is, the concept is pretty common, and fairly old.

I have an automotive AC vacuum pump made from a water cooler compressor. It works great. I'd bet you don't find many of those in DIY tool shops.

 

Thank you for the response! We are researching patents right now and have not found any copyright infringements. Our idea so far is to make a much more adaptive press to boost portability and keep costs low.

We have seen a few DIY's for homemade presses but nothing similar to our idea.

 

While this seems like a good idea There are quite a few versions of this floating around

While a press is nice a break seems to be much more useful