Category Archives: Power Presses

80B End Wheel Power Press

According to the Goetz Catalogue, the Model 80B End Wheel Power Press is “Ideal for punching, blanking, shearing and forming operations”, …and making horseshoes!

A variant, the 80BG, was also available for use with heavier gauge metals.

Thanks to Ben Embury from Embury Forge of Shelbourne, near Bendigo VIC, for the following photos of his 80B. Ben’s dad Peter set up their machine to make souvenir horseshoes, making all the dies/punches himself. Ben continues to use the 80B to make horseshoes, selling them all around Victoria.

Ben had the flywheel off to do maintenance work on the brake system and sent the following photos. Also below are the Goetz catalogue pages for the Model 80B. Click here to download the four catalogue pages as a PDF, or click the thumbnail image below.

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Front

Flywheel prior to removal

Flywheel removed, revealing crankshaft and clutch

The horseshoe jig and horseshoes

Branding and lubrication plaque

15C – new lease of life!

Goetz machinery just seems to keep going, on and on… a testament to the build quality.

Here’s a 15C 15 Ton Power Press about to get a new lease of life on the NSW central coast, as a press to make parts for an ingenious guttering system for houses and other buildings. Sections of the guttering can be swung down to empty the leaves.

Thanks to Michael Bell for the info and photos.

Unloaded: I-Beam attached to the base as a travel prop

 

Variable Frequency Drive inverter – how to run a 3-phase machine on 240V single-phase

 

The work table – can be tilted to enable pressed parts to slide off easily into a bin for increased productivity.

 

The cast lettering in the frame of the press shows W. G. Goetz & Sons Pty. Ltd. at West Melbourne – a reference to their Batman Street site. Goetz moved from West Melbourne to the Hall Street, Spotswood site in 1939. It was on 29th April 1939 that Goetz changed from being a Pty. Ltd. entity to a publicly listed company, becoming W. G. Goetz & Sons Limited. Further castings and ID plates showed their base of operation simply as “Spotswood Melbourne” or just “Melbourne”.

15C – 15 Ton power press Instruction Manual & Blueprints

This post has a collection of blueprint diagrams, instruction cards and a user manual for the 15C, 15 Ton Power Press.

For photos, see the 15C Photo Post

Operating Instructions & Parts List

The instruction manual contains foldout copies of the following diagrams:

  • Foundation Diagram (date unclear, but appears to be a copy of a blueprint drawn on 18 September 1948 – see scanned copy below)
  • General Assembly diagram (originally drawn 20 July 1958)
  • Sub Assembly Brake diagram (originally drawn 2 September 1964)

Click the image below to download a PDF of the manual (6.4 MB)

 

Foundation Diagram Blueprint, 18 September 1945

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Press Details Blueprint, 30 June 1948

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Instruction & Schedule of Details Cards

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Envelope

The above blueprints and cards were sent to new Power Press owners in envelopes, some of which like this example, must have been old stock left over from when W. G. Goetz was located in West Melbourne. The old address has been crossed out and the Hall Street, Spotswood address has been added. ‘Pty’ has also been crossed out, reflecting the change to a public company from 1 April 1939.

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