[Closed] Pretty Fly(press) For A White Guy

Thanks for that. The background has reminded me I need to look into getting a loft ladder fitted.

You monster 😡

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😀

That looks like you set it up in an aisle in Maplins...

What *is* a flypress?!

I remember using one of them when I was an apprentice and getting tw@ted in the head, arm hand every time it span back round. OK it may have been operator error but it hurt like hell and I feared the beast.

Proper chuckle at Jamie's photoshop.

Nice, looks even better on its own cast iron stand as well.

I bought this saw a while ago. Proper cast iron heavyweight, I had to get a friend to unload it with his JCB. 🙂

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isn't it missing the 'flies' ? The ones I have seen had 2 heavy balls with holes through the centre mounted on those 2 bits sticking up.

Yeah, our ones at college in the jewellery workshop have balls on them. Nice mind, even sans balls.

Do you have any surplus tooling for it? I'm looking for a 6mm x 15mm racetrack slot and a 15mm radius for ours.

No balls or tooling. I do need a large pair of balls. However such things are available on the Internet I'm told.

It was fun getting it out of the van and into the shop without a forklift 😉

only needs balls if you are ****ting big bits unless you have a bit of weight to put behind it.

presumably the stop works too on yours? (will stop the self-****ting of head, arms etc)

Jamie, I don't think that's a fly.

I know they're useful things but it looks like something you'd use to make cheese, or do the laundry in the 1800s. This is the POWER-MANGLE.

It's definately a flypress, trust me, I'm a ducter.

presumably the stop works too on yours? (will stop the self-****ting of head, arms etc)

Yes - it's a bit stiff so I'll strip it down and clean it sometime, but all works perfectly. Was pretty pleased to get one with the original cast stand.

Are you sure that it is not a really old Park headset press? 😉

Oh, it's going to be fantastic for headsets - might need to be careful not to flare them a bit 😉

Oh, and apart from needing some big balls, the ram is also a bit sticky - I'll try wiggling it, but it might need lubrication.

Now stripped, cleaned and rebuilt, with the dings ground off the ram - so it's now super smooth 😉

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Because I know you're all on tenterhooks and it's been over a week since my last update, here it is fully operational:

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Now with tooling to cut metal in interesting ways, and giant yellow balls for more oomph 😉

what are the balls for?

They add momentum to the rotating arm.

Brass balls or balls of steel? 😀

You have big balls sir.

get smacked with that and you'll know it.... well when you wake up.. 🙂

Nice tool.

They add momentum to the rotating arm.

To make sure when you're stupid enough to ram it into your head it hurts twice as much 😆 I ended up in A&E with mild concussion courtesy of one of these just after I'd finished my engineering course at college 😳

Brass balls or balls of steel?

Cast iron 😉

I've got the stop set so I can't hit myself with it (again)...