Frank B
I have not made the move to go from the Hobby Horse to a modified arbor press. I have gotten a ton of use out of the Hobby Horse, but I believe that control is better with the arbor, since you don't have to adjust to get maximum mechanical advantage (always having to change the set up to get the arm low enough to pull). The 5/8" washer idea is something that I also do, can get some accuracy when pressing on drivers (full stroke to the right gauge if you get it right). I have been pressing a lot of wheels for my new GG1 (6 axles per loco, just finished the 9th one, 2 presses per axle). At this point, one of the arbor presses will have to come to me, then I'll let the Hobby Horse go, but NOT most of the tooling, which will be common. You can never have enough press tools. I was fortunate enough to find a very large set of tools with a Hobby Horse at York. Bunch of the American Flyer S gauge tools sold off almost paid for everything else!.
Jim
