Recent content by asw456

Choices are pretty thin here in NZ. We didn't get many European or American machines and what we did get has had a lifetime of abuse by welders in a fab shop (to quote Dan on Practical Machinist) The ones I listed are pretty much my only choices in that price bracket (< $7k USD) that I'm aware...

Hi everyone! Please help me spend some $ (up to ~ 7k USD) on a mill in New Zealand :) I have so many projects ready that I'd like to use a mill for. Like copying this light, as well as stainless parts for racing kayak fittings, parts for my brother's kart and 4wd... list goes on. I haven't used...

Thanks for the cast/forged distinction :) I'm not worried about the dings themselves - as long as the metallurgy, hardening etc is the same as any other Proto set. Just hopeful that the scale or whatever happened in the forging prior to the plating can happen with a genuine set.

Hi all - first post but love the forum. I'm from New Zealand - just bought a set of Proto wrenches off Ebay as it's the only way to get them here as far as I know. Pretty excited to have a 'high end' wrench set for the first time. One or two of the wrenches have some casting flaws as shown...