What does this machine do?

[Cranky]

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[493 Mike]

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Is this a test? Or don't you really know?
Mike

 

[Cranky]

Is this a test? Or don't you really know?
Mike

Yeah, I feel kinda stooopid right now.....not a test lol

 

[dspur]

Is this a test? Or don't you really know?
Mike

Don't feel stupid. Others don't know either, including me.

 

[1967coronet]

Were is Bob when we need him ?

 

[Dave6T4]

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.

 

[493 Mike]

Don't feel stupid. Others don't know either, including me.

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!
Mike

 

[gtx6970]

Hard to tell without seeing the dies.

Looks like either a hole or gusset punch

 

[Cranky]

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.

 

[MWbirdLOVER70]

Lifter press?

 

[R413]

Go to Las Vegas today and ask TSR what it is.

 

[Cranky]

Go to Las Vegas today and ask TSR what it is.

Might send him an email lol. Or could probably find it on the net somewhere if no one here knows.

 

[rickseeman]

Rotex punch. Probably made in SoCal. I like 'em.

 

[Fran Blacker]

Dave6T4 winner Google Lens

 

[66 Cornpicker]

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.

 

[MCODECUDA]

The actual name of it is a turret punch.

 

[toolmanmike]

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.

It looks like a punch

 

[Photon440]

It does look like some sort of punch. Glad there are people on here who recognized it.

 

[Runner 68]

The actual name of it is a turret punch.

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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.

 

[kiwigtx]

It's a Hydroscopic Discombobulator made in 1962.