Home made clicker press

its a press for cutting leather, its meant to click once the knife goes through the leather hence the name clicker press!

[@dallasbirdsong6912]

The sheer initiative alone to me is impressive. The willingness to try is something so few people do. Great job I say.

[@Traderjoe]

You are a genius, an artist and a craftsman! I have seen show makers use dies like that to cut out the components of the shoes.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Thanks Joe! I did look at the industrial pneumatic machines but they weigh a ton and cost ££££

[@IllusoryRedoubt]

Thumbs up for John Williamson 👍 nice work mate, I like your ingenuity 👍👍👍

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

The living legend himself!

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Some job of work Turbo. Lots of planning and improvising and skilled work. Definitely some Brunel in your ancestory methinks

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers Vinnie

[@rupert5390]

I said that the other day - this is what the industrial revolution victorians would have looked like.

[@alexandermcd9192]

looks great. modifying a shop press is way easier and cheaper though, not as quick to use as the machine you made because of all the cranking. Yours is on a whole new level. You have serious talent. great content.

[@littlepacificstudios]

Very impressed! Good job!

[@gergemall]

Beautiful, you are some kind of talented genius.

[@Everythings_Adjustable]

They will never accuse you of under engineering, Looks great Mate 👍 😊

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers buddy

[@infamousftfw]

The lack of PPE but the grinder gaurd still in place.. the sweat pants tucked into steel toes.. im in. Ill definitely be using this when i make mine! ^not even slightly being sarcastic. Great video! Thank you!

[@KaiBuskirk]

New Subscriber... i may never make one ... i would buy the kit!! Great job M8T! but i truly enjoyed your presentation.... thank you for making the Showing!! it was like i was hanging out!! wish i could have helped!! cheers, kai

[@daveeden2220]

I wondered when someone was gonna make a video of this and glad you Did

[@sircumference5032]

sat mesmerised by this...........your brain has some real clever moves and twists ! skills Sir.....skills .

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@billwessels207]

Looked at the master tools clicker presses 4 ton and 8 ton. The demo they showed using steel backer plates under the plastic cutting board and steel plates on top of the clicker die. Therefore a lot less flex than you are getting with the wood on top and bottom. I think you have it correct and only need the steel spacer above the die and below the cutting board and you are off to the races. If you need more pressure just use a piece of pipe extender on the end of the handle(commonly called a cheater bar) to dramatically increase the effective pressure being exerted by your press as is. Looks good to me and I just might copy your basic design ideas. Thanks for the most enjoyable and useful video, Sir.

[@moretimethanmoney8611]

An impressive build indeed. A similar end result can be attained using a bottle jack, press frame, and steel plates. Yours looks way cool though.

[@debbushee6970]

lucky man to have all those tools and machines that you can do all that! i enjoyed watching your progress ty sincerely deb

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Thanks Deb

[@PWARHOLM]

Great Video! Neat press. Thank you.

[@johnparken2607]

You have amazing skill! Love that Aussie accent too. Thanks for sharing.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers mate, glad you like the press I'm English though

[@johnparken2607]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Ooops! My bad. Cheers!

[@ageorge7140]

Awesome build

[@vigilante004]

I never knew what a clicker press was. Now I gots to have me one. Hey, what about welding in, or brazing in a bunch of pins for punching the sewing holes in around the edge. But, I imagine that you are going to use your Chinese sewing machine for that. Thanks for the education buddy, you are freaking awesome!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

It would be nice to poke some holes for rivets in the sheaths at the same time, that blade material was a handful, I'm a bit surprised it worked at all/didn't open myself up.

[@bbrown87609]

Very very nice job !!!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Thanks mate

[@xDrDeath78x]

So many questions bro lol. Obviously well done!!!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers, what could I possibly have left unanswered?

[@dowgird5018]

This press is a beast!!! First I tried die cutting, I also bought this kind of cutting board - seemed like a good idea, but this texture on it is a pain in the ass, also it likes to crack - proper die cutting board is a must! My suggestion is not to use any soft material (like wood) in this process - lots of power goes into compression of it and also makes uneven results in cutting.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Thanks mate, the heavy boards are not too expensive so I might invest in one

[@edwardbenton2602]

Right on Mate!! That is awesome man!! Thanks!

[@stephencresswell4760]

“Experimentalising” love it.

[@jmyd83]

solid looking build bud, you should make a die cutter for slingshot pouches people always looking to buy good quality leather pouches on Ebay

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I like the idea of mass producing leather pouches, I've got everything I need to do it now.

[@ElRel]

Nice work man.

[@jonanderson5137]

You might want to try brass cut plate over steel base plate. Presses are all about proper use of shims and centering your work. 19mm steel plate with shims under it and a brass cut plate over the steel. Only shim the steel to get it parallel to your die youll keep your brass longer.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Ok, a lot of useful tips there mate thank you

[@chadheadley78]

Very nice work. Thanks for sharing.

[@garrybeard2031]

Bloody amazing great job you the man well done mate 👍🇬🇧🍺

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Thanks as always Garry

[@airnashville3883]

Impressive! You're a very creative fabricator. Did you teach yourself or receive other training?.Have you considered adding the springs on the back of the pressor handle to automatically keep the press up?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

A spring would be a very nice addition. I did get a bit of machine work and welding instruction at school and worked on light aircraft ever since knocking rivets into broken Cessnas, sheet metal and oil changes is what I do professionally hence you'll never see me do it at home because it's boring now!

[@moonolyth]

Looking to make a die for s slingshot batch! That's the ticket!! Sweet build!! I'll try my hand with a band saw blade, welder, and hammer. Always entertaining good man!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Bandsaw blade is an excellent idea, I'm sure you've looked elsewhere but Harry Rogers has some excellent videos on setting the thinner blades in ply and also a couple of builds of different press designs.

[@MarkSmith-to7xi]

It looks like a brand new Victorian machine, well done m8, just be careful with the welds on the back as there's some play in the frame, watch back, when you press the frame around the piston bars moves up, hence the uneven first cut, a beautiful and useful bit of kit. Ps if i didn't know better I'd swear you had speeded up some footage 😄😅

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

The victorian's knew how to make attractive machines so thank you! Agree there is a bit of flex.

[@NightmareN8]

Turbo do you have plans for building these press? I would like to build one for my wife

[@benspeedschannel888]

Go to the top of the class that man!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Thanks mate

[@robustbr4269]

Que força você dá e quantos milímetros de couro você pode cortar ?

[@clarkstream]

Very impressive

[@Festoolification]

At 22:30 can see a little bit of flex at the hinge, bit more beefing up there might be in order, great build though. Particularly liked your use of RSJ offcuts - dirt cheap to get and half the fabrication already done for anything that needs a box / square / rigid construction.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Yup, that hinge was a lazy shortcut, I'm going to end up spending longer fixing it than it would have taken to do it properly! I've got about 50' foot of those offcuts, haul of the year so far, it's only been tacked together too so it's easy to split it back down into flats.

[@stewartrv]

Good one. Could also have used a hydraulic bottle jack I guess, although I guess this maybe quicker once you've fine tuned it.

[@Gizmomadug]

Constructing a clicker press from girders *and* Eric Bogle? You spoil us sir. My neighbour is a chef, he doesn't like plastic cutting boards, he uses pressed bamboo ones.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

John Williamson, can highly recommend him! I might try bamboo, I have one in my kitchen and it is smooth faced so would avoid the embossed pattern this board is leaving on everything.

[@coltoncollins4387]

Are there plans to build this we can buy?

[@dirkie9308]

What type of metal do you use as hands?

[@welsh58boy]

Nice one 👍

[@azzamody]

Where do you buy click die from ??

[@gnosisstudios295]

Dude amazing, Would you make one for other people?

[@doOf3r]

That hinge is nuts mate! What you done to your head?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Nice one. My head got slightly bonfired.

[@BensWorkshop]

Interesting work. I will be making a hydraulic press for doing press fit in machines. Do you suppose that would work? Also what happened to your head?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Yes, a lot of people use bottle jack type presses, but they are a bit slow and limit the size of the sheet you can use. Head got burnt but it's all good now thanks.

[@BensWorkshop]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Fair enough. Pleased the head injury is clearing up.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Sorry I haven't got back to you with thread sizes yet, I've not forgotten

[@BensWorkshop]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Cheers!

[@noureddinetaboch8229]

you can use spring for the hand

[@AdinoEznite]

You could sell those! What would you charge for one?

[@richbuilds_com]

Propper job that!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers buddy

[@barnydrunk]

Wow, it was nice to hear you sing, you really are talented, at welding 🤣🤣🤣

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Ha. Thanks mate.

[@reculvertowers]

Ill second that,my nutty jack russell went into berserker mode and started howling.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Is nutty jack Russel another facet of your mpd? You are on top form this morning!

[@EitriBrokkr]

What kind of metal did you make the die out of? I might try making one and putting it in my hydraulic bench press

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

It's called strip knife, I couldn't find any retailers so went to a die maker and he just gave me 4meters, I wanted to weld it up so used 3x20 mm but apparently the thinner 0.5-1.0 mm stuff will work but needs wooden backing and you can't weld it... Although a tig would probably do a nice job

[@EitriBrokkr]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I wonder if thicker banding strap would work, I believe it's spring steel

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I think that'd work, it is hard steel, it would be difficult putting an edge on it though and would want a decent backing piece so it didn't fold up.

[@ncscrystals-minichandelier7622]

Thumbs up, where can I buy press machine like this for cutting 2mm thick plastic.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

There are a few different designs available commercially, if it's hard plastic you are wanting to cut maybe the type sold by jewelry making suppliers would be best, it's slow but built around a 2ton bottle jack, they've only got a 8"x4" bed though

[@reculvertowers]

I thought WTF is a clicker press,watched the video and now I know.Well done building a good bit of kit Turbo.Them chopping boards make great knuckle dusters on me scrollsaw .Use them for router bases as well.Make great catapults also,the list is endless.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Plastic knuckle dusters? How many teeth have you knocked out with them?

[@reculvertowers]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 None yet,but theyed do a very good job of it.One of my other inventions that Ive got to get patented is a cycling helmet with a green and yellow broom head cabled tied on it.With my MPD,I dont know whether Im a punk rocker,marvin the martian or the last of the mohicans.....its bloody handy for cleaning the bike though😂😂😂😂

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Speechless mate, it's not even mid day, what have you been smoking.... To have come up with such an incredible idea?!

[@reculvertowers]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Had my broom helmet about 3 years,my Canadian neighbour has taken pictures of me wearing it to send to her niece in Canada,she asked her aunt if her mad neighbour still wore it so she sent her another picture about a year after the first one.The last time I smoked a Moroccan woodbine,I was in traction in hospital,we got away with it for a few weeks,then we got caught.good job they cant put a hospital bed in a police cell...the ward sister went fucking mental

[@rupert5390]

Very nice and ingenious press - (nice aussie music too) There is a fellow pommie leather bloke on U/tube using a crappy hydraulic jack press - he would buy one of those off you for good shekels - Harry Rogers is his name (has a more refined accent than you, more posh) could be a good sale for you -

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I like Harry Rogers, he is plummy but I'm sure that makes for better vids than someone who sounds like they are chewing a brick. Bottle jack press seems like a long way of doing things, I did see his home made clicker press.... It was a bit dainty, top marks for effort though. Lots of family out your way hence my good fortune if being put on to John Williamson.

[@kvjqxzz5905]

I am waiting eagerly for the fitting of the parang into the finished sheath

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Hopefully you'll see 20 of them built at once when I've fettled things a bit more.

[@moisesmera7913]

Hold my beer. In all seriousness can we buy one

[@davenorth1265]

Love the video, think I saw you at the worst car boot in the world earlier. I didn't come over and say hi as I had my kids, you know how it is!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Had my gaggle in tow too, wasn't such a bad boot fair, lots of rusty tools! Glad you enjoyed the video mate.

[@davenorth1265]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 My eldest saw the tools over the back side weren't they? There wasn't anything there that I hadn't already got lol.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

@@davenorth1265 lucky man, mine are not old enough to scout for tools yet, it's all on me... I found a couple of old record g-clamps at the front, missing their pads but I'll have a go at making some more. The kids all got a toy each for a quid and the Mrs got a new bag, I got stung at the burger van though, that made me wish I'd stayed at home!

[@davenorth1265]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Yeah I saw they was little uns. When i drove in I said to my boys... "Lads there's a HOG ROAST!!!" Little did we know it was the hog roast people just using their box trailer for normal tat. Was absolutely gutted mate, couldn't even consider the burger van after that.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Wounded! I didn't spot that.

[@efrennunez4383]

How much?

[@lesthompson5907]

well done son

[@dag36523]

i would like to make one.Are there plans available?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I'm afraid not my friend, it was built from scrap so unless we were working out of the same scrap heap plans might not be too useful!

[@billwessels207]

I believe his name is Harry Rodgers.

[@billwessels207]

By the way, some Brit fellow with the odd name of Harry has a video where uses a homemade clicker dies using wood surrounding the die-cutting blade as well as supporting it with wood inside the die. Precludes the need for welding and fabricating the inner diestock body. Cutting down on time and labor and expense. You might just want to check out his channel sometime. He has some interesting and novel ideas at times. Although he does (in typical Brit fashion) rather blather on at times. Pleasantly odd fellow.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

He's a very pleasant chap to listen to, the lightweight strips he sets in plywood are from the packing industry for stamping cardboard to shape, from what I understand they are only really suitable for the more supple upholstery leathers. I was very fortunate with the weldable die knife as the very friendly guys that make dies professionally just gave me an 8' length. I did donate to their tea and biscuit fund.

[@benchavez9910]

I am a leather hobbits and I am always looking for tools that won't cost me a fortune thanks for your idea

[@pedroimiranda902]

Where do you live

[@gerisyandrayusman241]

22:48 Congratulations!!

[@arthurdurham5112]

Nice, if you have machines to make it.

[@debbushee6970]

need spring in handle return

[@videosatrevidos702]

amigo sin ofenderte esta bonito tu trabajo pero tiene muchas fallas

[@rubenpupaza3532]

Irish ? ❤❤❤

[@TheDaumen]

If you add some ribs to the top press plate you will be much happier with your build I think. It doesn't take much flex on a clicker to get an uneven click and have to have another go at it. Just an observation not a criticism Oh, I wouldn't quit your day job and try to be a singer! Just sayin Man! All in good fun!.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Well I've never been so insulted in all my days.... Understood with the ribs, although the hinge and it's attachment to the base are currently the source of most of the flexing, but now that the hinge pin is bent I'm in the position where it'll work but to take it apart I'll be using a grinder.

[@TheDaumen]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 If you sing very often then I am 100% sure you have been so insulted probably often, multiple times. It is a good thing you are quite handy or we might have to do something. A grinder is always a good tool to have around!

[@joseluisonatenarvaez4705]

La máquina esta cheverisima, pero está mal regulada

[@pradolover]

Hours of hand reaming.. so you're single or been married for more than 2 weeks!

[@NITEGOD]

Quit watching once I seen I don’t own that equipment or have the skill to do that .. I’ll buy a press