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| Happy Birthday Dean! |
STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS
Workshop A
Students:
Amer, Dunham, Daniel, David, Harold, Miguel
This week, Amer and Dunham took their gear train exam and passed! They are now moving onto the escapement lesson.
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| Horia pusher set up to fix end shake of the jewels |
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| Pallet fork removed to prepare for escapement adjustments! |
This week Daniel, David and Miguel started their lesson on pivot gauges! They learned how to turn it down on the between centers lathe, trim it down with a degussit stone and finally burnish it on the jacot tool.
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| Pivot gauge blank attached to carrier plate on between centers lathe |
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| Close up of pivot gauge before doming the tip |
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| Closer look of the pivot tip. |
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| Measuring the accuracy of the tip of the pivot gauge with a micrometer. Accurate to 1 micron! |
This week, Harold joined Amer and Dunham for their gear train theory discussion and started filing his screwdrivers and tweezers to begin working on movements.
GUEST STARRING
Workshop B
Xin
Xin passed his final exam! Congratulations to our upcoming graduate!
COMING UP NEXT...
Next week we're going to have another bench tester! So stay tuned to meet them and see what Workshop B is up to!
Thank you for reading! See you next week!
Nice work on the pivot gauge! I bought a set several years ago and some were damaged, so I had to re-turn them. I found it a challenge and even bent them a couple of times with my micrometer! (I'm often my own worst enemy!) Thanks for sharing!
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