Help with identifying a press
Hello, everyone new to the site and would love your help on identifying a press. A life long family friend has a press in storage which they know very little about. We will be putting it up for sale or trade or something soon and would like any help with what it’s is. Are there any areas that would put identification marks or model number, etc. any help is appreciated. Thank you. Also we are located in NW Iowa.
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Unless you can locate all the parts and photograph them “in the clear” so their condition can be assessed, it looks to me like, due to the storage conditions, the work needed to ensure all the parts are present, and the approximate low probable value of them, this is a candidate for scrapping. I do not know what is being paid now for scrap iron, but if it was an 8x12 Chandler & Price press, complete, it probably weighs about 800lbs total, so at 10 cents per pound (guessing the price) it would be worth $80. At $5 per hour for the work needed to find and clean all the parts and reassemble the press, you would make money scrapping it.
I apologize for the gloomy report, but the reality is what you have presented is “a pig in a poke”, as the old folks say.
It could have value as a parts press.
by the flywheel its a new style C&P
Thank you for all the feedback We are just looking for it to go to someone that will appreciate it or use it rather than scrapping it.