For you machinists out there…
- Estraven
- Posts: 122
- Joined: May 05, 2021
This is so damn cute, I just had to show it off. It’s a Derbyshire watchmakers’ lathe compound cross slide that I recently acquired. Designed for 50mm spindle height, takes 3/16” tools. Notice the hand-scraped slide ways, all three of them received that treatment. It is solidly caked with ancient dinosaur lube of some sort, I’ll probably dunk it in some sort of “Dissolv-All” for a month with intermittent ultrasonics to loosen everything up so that I can take it apart and clean it the rest of the way. Replacement leadscrew cranks will be on order soon from Derbyshire (yes, they are still in business and continue to make insanely high-precision machine tools).
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- hornbuilder
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- Joined: May 02, 2018
Nice!! Now, where's the rest of the lathe??
- Estraven
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- Joined: May 05, 2021
[quote="hornbuilder"]Nice!! Now, where's the rest of the lathe??[/quote]
Right here! Marshall “Webster-Whitcomb” pattern with chuck-holding lever-operated tailstock (the only one I’ve ever seen). There’s a 3-jaw chuck in the headstock spindle, but I have a large assortment of collet chucks also.
Right here! Marshall “Webster-Whitcomb” pattern with chuck-holding lever-operated tailstock (the only one I’ve ever seen). There’s a 3-jaw chuck in the headstock spindle, but I have a large assortment of collet chucks also.
- hornbuilder
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My father was a watch maker by trade. He had a machine very similar. I wish I knew what happened to it.
- Doug_Elliott
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- Joined: Mar 22, 2018
So there's where you get your attention to detail.
- mahlertwo
- Posts: 289
- Joined: Apr 03, 2019
[quote="hornbuilder"]My father was a watch maker by trade. He had a machine very similar. I wish I knew what happened to it.[/quote]
Have you ever considered making a valve cap with a watch built in?
Have you ever considered making a valve cap with a watch built in?
- Blabberbucket
- Posts: 305
- Joined: Oct 09, 2022
[quote="mahlertwo"]<QUOTE author="hornbuilder" post_id="224266" time="1699059256" user_id="3205">
My father was a watch maker by trade. He had a machine very similar. I wish I knew what happened to it.[/quote]
Have you ever considered making a valve cap with a watch built in?
</QUOTE>
Built-in metronome....
My father was a watch maker by trade. He had a machine very similar. I wish I knew what happened to it.[/quote]
Have you ever considered making a valve cap with a watch built in?
</QUOTE>
Built-in metronome....
- Estraven
- Posts: 122
- Joined: May 05, 2021
[quote="Blabberbucket"]<QUOTE author="mahlertwo" post_id="224582" time="1699360067" user_id="5762">
Have you ever considered making a valve cap with a watch built in?[/quote]
Built-in metronome....
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Use one of the old Accutron movements that hummed at A=440. Built-in tuner!
Have you ever considered making a valve cap with a watch built in?[/quote]
Built-in metronome....
</QUOTE>
Use one of the old Accutron movements that hummed at A=440. Built-in tuner!