Busy week!

 

Week 18




STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS


Workshop A + B

Students:
    Art, Daniel, David, Harold, Miguel, Nine
    Craig, Dunham, Ivan, Louis, Mun, Varun

    This week Art and Nine started making the entire winding stem. They learned how to turn the winding stem on the lathe and file the square, and how to heat treat and temper the winding stem when its done.

Michael showing them how to temper and blue parts on an electric heater.

    This week Daniel made a beryllium copper balance wheel, milling out the spokes and turning it true on the lathe.

 

Milling out the spokes on the jig borer.

After turning on the lathe.

     This week David took and passed his hairspring exam! So now he is finishing the hairspring and timing for the 7 required movements.

    This week Miguel continued with the hairspring lesson. He successfully formed his hairspring and studded it up on the balance so next week he will be focusing on improving the timing.

 

The hairspring that Miguel is practicing on.

 

    This week Miguel also made a new Horia anvil for pressing the hairspring collet onto the balance.

 

The tip of the anvil is polished to prevent scratches and damage.

The base is made from brass and the head is friction fit steel. It is tapered for added strength.

 

    This week Craig and Mun learned how to use the milling machine. They learned the basics of how to operate the machine and how to square up the vice.


    This week Craig also helped to repair one of our microscopes.

 

Craig is soldering the frayed wiring of the microscope light back together.

It works!

    This week Ivan, Louis and Varun started on the gear train lesson! First they had to clean and oil 30 incablocs each and now they're learning how to oil and assemble the winding and setting of the 7 movements.

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 Hope to see you again next week!