Thread: Presses and techniques for 1/2" HEX broaches
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Re: Presses and techniques for 1/2" HEX broaches
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Originally Posted by thinker&planner View Post
Also, it takes like 10,000 cycles of the hand lever to broach one thing. It gets very annoying, and takes us way too long. Does anyone else have experience with this, and do you have a good technique?
It looks like you could just swap out the bottle jack for an air over hydraulic one. It won't be blazing fast, but a lot less annoying than pumping the handle a bazillion times.
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