Another week another dollar.
Everybody is keeping busy. Art is almost done with his technician course (2nd year) This week he was practicing the skills with the hairspring. Here he centred and flattened the hairspring, he also bent the regulating curve under the bridge!
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| Delectable |
Jae won is here using the band saw to dice up chunks of brass. No hand sawing when it comes to an 8mm plate of brass.
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| Cuts like butter |
Gary is on the lathe with a 3 jaw chuck rectifying a case. Using a dial gauge to measure its concentricity.
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| Joan hand turning pivot gauges |
Some of the senior students have started vibrating balance wheel. This is when you oscillate the wheel while comparing its vibration to a reference wheel of a known frequency. This allows you to clip the hair spring at different locations to find the correct length for the spring.
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| Craig using his magic |
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| The balance wheel and the reference wheel |
On Thursday some students went to the Gaia awards show in the international watch museum in La chaux de Fonds, Congratulations to Roger Smith won the Gaia award. Very lucky some students for the opportunity to meet him and congratulate him on this special night.
Lastly on Friday Chris brought his little watchmaking assistant to watch over his work.
That’s it for this week.
Until next time
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