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Very impressive piece of equipment, although I couldn't squeeze it in my basement workshop!
Patricia Malone
Thu 02-23-2006
The top looks like a turtle with its mouth open : )
Kabakov
Thu 02-23-2006
Yeah it does Kabakov!

Whoa, you sure wouldn't catch ME up on that ladder......
Jude
Thu 02-23-2006
Whoa, good observation there, Jude, I hadn't noticed the ladder before. Looks like most of the bottom rungs are missing.
Barbara
Fri 02-24-2006
You know something's tall when you need a ladder to get to a ladder.
Aaron
Fri 03-24-2006
I would've guessed that it's a baler, but since there was a stamping operation, must be a stamping machine? Was there a die in the bottom of it for something that was getting stamped?
DW
Mon 05-15-2006
No it looked like the dies were removed.
Motts
Mon 05-15-2006
what you see here starting from top and moving down; crakshaft, clutch and brake assembly( open turtle mouth) next crankshaft ,connnecting rods, counterbalance assy. then the ram contained by the frame of the press.
figusmakem
Mon 06-26-2006
Of Course the dies are removed. They are own by the only offical studebaker parts dealer. He is located in building 92 the product engineering and design building of the old studebaker plant
Mike
Sun 11-19-2006
I used to work at the plant in 1992 in high school. This looks like it was in the 'High Bay' as they called it then. Sad to see the 1.6 million square feet buiilding torn down.
Jesse
Tue 11-21-2006
This is another draw press. It is also called a toggle press. This press was in the pressroom at the south end of the building. This line of presses was called " G Line ". G1A was the number one draw, and the first press on G Line.
Mark
Thu 09-13-2007

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