Lee Bench Plates Question

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Many years ago purchased a Lee press stand. Have plates that are that has one or more mounting hole than offered today. See pictures.
Contacted Lee to find out what press these holes were for and person wrote they only made one version.

My goal is to get an Inline Fabrication QC plate and it would be easier to order an existing plate rather a custom one made for a 70 year old CH By Roddy press I use for de-priming.

Anyone heard of anyone else making these plates for other Lee Presses?






I might have done those holes myself and remember doing some filing on them come to think of it.
 
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Cracked two of those in a week. Split along the grain. Should have been decent quality plywood. My goal is to try find what model press have the closest hole pattern that I can get from Inline Fab. Dan check their drawings and nothing seems to come close and is hesitant to make a new pattern for a one of. Understandable if I am the only possible customer for it.
 
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I would just get a local fab shop to make u a plate or 2 with no holes in it . Then drill in the holes that work for your press. Even if you just get the fab shop to bend you the steel up then you can put all the notches for the bas plate in yourself with a die grinder or file might safe u a few bucks .
 
diopter said:
Cracked two of those in a week. Split along the grain. Should have been decent quality plywood. My goal is to try find what model press have the closest hole pattern that I can get from Inline Fab. Dan check their drawings and nothing seems to come close and is hesitant to make a new pattern for a one of. Understandable if I am the only possible customer for it.
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Why not just remove the press.. dirty up the base of the press, take a piece of paper and rub it making a new template. The you're not trying to find a press with the same pattern.


Find a machine shop with a water jet and give them the wood blank. They could make one from alum or mild steel pretty fast.

Or take the old plate. Weld up the holes and make new ones.
 
Need to get rid of the Lee stand and just use my Inline Fabrication mount for all 6 of my presses. Floor space is tight.
 
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