Attempts at amateur gunsmithing, citizenship, and other skilled trades

Month: May 2022

Making an old arbor press like new

I found this old Dake Model X arbor press online.

Dake Model X arbor press. Source: seller photo

I hoped to use it as a pistol sight pusher in addition to the press/stamp/rivet operations it was actually designed for.

Some quick research revealed that these Dake presses last forever and are easy to refurbish, so I took the plunge.

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That New Car Smell

*First appeared in Air Force Times, fall 2000

This week* we celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Cessna T-37, which first flew on 12 October, 1954. Nearly 1300 “Tweets” were manufactured before the production line closed in 1977: this number includes the trainer, attack (A-37) and Forward Air Control, or FAC (OA-37) versions.

T-37 Tweet, U.S. Air Force photo. Source: af.mil
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