What I don't understand is the cat track in pneumatic presses--- shouldn't the cat track prevent you from getting equal pressure in the lateral direction? (Assuming you aren't uniform in the lateral direction-- like raised torsion forks or whatever) Also, in the "ask an expert" interview, ...

I can borrow pretty heavy duty pumps from work and set up a system... shouldnt be a big deal for that. I just don't want to do anything too complicated for my first try and I also like that you can see what your doing with vacuuming. What about sucking epoxy out, anyone had problems with this? Is th...

yes very true..... vacuum definitely is not viable the more I look at this. The firehose setup is very good, safety concerns me of course.

I'd like to hear more on this as well. I really like the idea of having a safe vacuum press over a dangerous hydraulic press, and I also like the precision of vacuum pressing. However, I know you will never get 50psi w/ a vacuum. Is there any two step method for vacuum pressing. Also, forgive my ign...