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What does this machine do?
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Is this a test? Or don't you really know?
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Yeah, I feel kinda stooopid right now.....not a test lol
Don't feel stupid. Others don't know either, including me.
Were is Bob when we need him ?
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Looks like a manual punch press for punching various size holes in sheet metal. Rotate the lower turntable to choose the size of hole you need, and then pull the handle.
Well I don't know but, obviously it presses something into something else! Ignorance can be fixed with education-stupid is mainly a genetic disorder!
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My first thought was something that helped with the disassembly/assembly of lifters.....I got it from a pic of Tony Stewart"s race shop but it being a punch press makes more sense.
Lifter press?
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Might send him an email lol. Or could probably find it on the net somewhere if no one here knows.
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Rotex punch. Probably made in SoCal. I like 'em.
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Di-Acro was a company that made a machine that looks just like that but was hammer-tone green in color and I think they were made here in Cleveland Oh. We have several of these here on the lab @ Glenn. They are for sheet metal work , panels, bowes that need bent up ect... They have their place for sure if you know how to do stuff OLD SCHOOL.
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The actual name of it is a turret punch.
It looks like a punch
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It does look like some sort of punch. Glad there are people on here who recognized it.
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No, a Rotex Style Turret Punch.
Good call. The interweb is a wonderful thing.
However Cranky inquired as to what it did, not what it is.
I have no F@cking clue.
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It's a Hydroscopic Discombobulator made in 1962. 
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