Adapting a 1 Ton Arbor Press for making tarp grommet installations.
Some of the tooling was machined/adapted from the HF 103 pc. Grommet Installation kit SKU 30037.

The arbor press ram was mounted in a 4 jaw chuck and drilled/honed to accept the modified HF grommet tools.
A cross pin retainer is used, using a  .310" steel dowel.

Punch Die Set:
A block of 1.5" sq. CRS was machined and bored/honed with a .500" central punch hole. I used a section of 1- 1/4" CRS rod, welded to the punch die block,  to fit into the recess under the press table. This is through-bolted to the back of the recess wall The punch die was machined from CRS rod, for a snug sliding fit in the ram, and has .001" clearance in the punch die block. It is countersunk on the bottom, to provide a sharp cutting edge. This was stoned to a fine edge.  It is neccessary to maintain rig Ideally, these parts should be hardened, but for the limited use these will have, I deemed it unessessary.

Grommet Press Set:
I turned a steel  adapter that fits into the die block, and adapts the bottom grommet die to the block. The upper swaging die was adapted/machined to fit the ram as the punch die was.
PICS:
press01: Shows the Arbor Press mounted to my sewing table
press02: Shows the die block, fence, and mounting bolts
press03: Shows the die block bolted into the arbor press
press04: Shows the press tooling; punch die on the left, and grommet setting tools and adapter on the right
press05: Shows the punch die block and punch die tooling in place
press06: shows the adapter installed for the grommet setting lower die
press07: Shows the grommet setting lower die installed on the adapter
press08: Shows the grommet setting tooling in place
press09: A very comely assistant using the punch function
press10: Same comely assistant using the grommet setting function

JR North