Non Hydraulic presses
 

Does anyone know of any plans available for theses presses?

I'm thinking along the lines of a simple heavy rotating flywheel that works similar to a power hammer, but where the top die would have no springs or shocks. The flywheel would turn and move a concentric shaft up and down with say a 1/8 " throw. The bottom die could be moved up and down with a flypress type screw. You could just insert the billet, spin the screw up and walk the billet. Does this make sense?

I'd say if you happened to have the billet to cold something is going to brake
that's the short of it...other things :( can happen also

I don't know about plans, but there are such things as fly presses that work as you describe (I think). Here's some examples: http://www.oldworldanvils.com/flypresses/index.html

that's very interesting I thought motorized horiz. type:confused: ..that got me thinking... :)

3 HP motor! This is sounding better all the time, fellas.