Recent content by aarggh

The stand is an absolute beast, but even though the fly press is around 450-500kgs, the metal bender at rear right is about 50kgs, and the trolley itself is around 150kgs now, I can still move it around with the 8 x solid rubber wheels no problem. Apart from hot pressing/punching when I...

OZ is Australia, the Land of the Long White Cloud is NZ. Although we are happy to take credit for some bands/actors from NZ as our own! ;-) For the stand as it's primarily for my big fly press, I bought a really heavy duty stand off a local seller, put it on it's side, and fitted 8 x 6" wheels...

Thanks for the welcome, long time lurker (from OZ), new poster! I'll post some pics once I've stripped and fixed it all, but cleaning it did reveal a serial stamped on the outside of the fixed jaw, "131", which seems an awfully low number possibly? Ok, here's a couple of pics showing the...

Hi all, i'm having trouble identifying a makers stamp on my large leg vise, it's an 8" jaw and around 80-100kgs at an estimate. It's disassembled as i'm cleaning and stripping it so no pics as yet, but the stamp is WG below a crown (in a circle of sorts) on the moving leg. I'm guessing old...