Bench Test!

 Week 34

This week we had a bench tester, Mauro from Connecticut, USA!

Here is learning how to black polish screws!

STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Workshop A & B

Students:

Art, Daniel, David, Miguel, Nine & Craig and Dunham

This week Art and Nine continued working on making pivot gauges.

Here Art is using the lathe to part off more blue steel blanks for pivot gauges.

    This week Daniel and Miguel continued to work on their 7 movements. They need to finish servicing them before the final exam.

    This week David serviced his own Seiko 7s26 movement.

    This week Craig took his winding stem exam and passed, Congratulations to him! Now he can move on to learning how to make pivot gauges.

    This week Dunham machined his barrel arbor, ratchet wheel, crown wheel, and all the pinions of his school watch.

Here is dunny's completed barrel!

Here is the steel bar with his ratchet wheel blanks

The completed pinions of his watch.
Top to bottom: Escape wheel, 4th wheel, center wheel and 3rd wheel.

The escape wheel pinion is very small! compared to Dunham's finger. The pinion is only 0.8mm in diameter!

Thank you for reading!

Hope to see you again next week!