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Kludge
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Okay, we've seen shops stuffed into corners and all but I think I can beat everyone on small.
Okay, first - the overall shop at a rather odd angle:
That lower section's about 19" wide and 2' tall, and is about 3" off the ground to allow for the rollers. The upper one is 16" wide and 10" tall. I work standing, sitting in a hyper-elevated student chair and, when I get it back, a stool.
Where the little boxes are now to the right of the upper section will be a second bench vise, with slightly wider jaws.
And now for some of the tools:
These two are on the top & bottom of the right set of drawers. None of the punches are in this shot nor are all of the bench steel (and a couple brass) staking anvils. The holding things are a bit out of the ordinary so I figured I'd include them as well.
The upper tool drawer. These reside on the middle deck of the lower section of the bench. On the left are a portion of the pin vises, in the middle are some of the tweezers, and on the right a bunch of different small staking punches. The chrome-like container has some very, very small ones which sometimes require the services of both lenses on my clip-on loupe.
For scaling, each section is a quarter plus one on edge wide.
On the left are lubrication tools with pithwood and pegwood stock. NExt to them are my slips and then the wooden polishing sticks. To the right of them are broaches (some of which we'll see in a bit), files and burnishers.
Side note: Pithwood is usually cut into small pieces and used for things like drying and cleaning the oilers next to them. Just stick the pin in and it's done. Peg wood has a variety of uses like having a sliver cut out for cleaning out holes in gears or pivots.
These are the broaches which are kind of like really small reamers. I scattered a few quarters around as the common unit of measurement for them.
Bottom section: smaller grippy things and solder, both soft and silver. In between is the shellac that gets melted to hold things in place.
Middle section: two more staking anvils and the taps & die plates (screw plates) that range from .6 to 2.0mm ... and another quarter. On top are an incomplete set of drills. I still have coming a set that ranges from .3 to 2mm in .05mm steps.
This is my K&D staking set, although I can't find this frame in any of their old catalogs. There are 90-something stakes and 20-something stumps which pretty much allows me to customize it to my needs. This helps a lot when I need to do something dead bang on while the handheld ones find use in places where I can have a little freedom in dead-bang-onishness.
So much for the tools. Let's look at bits and pieces for a moment.
Big drawer: Gears, gears and more gears. To the top left are magnets and some really thin brass washers used in watch & clock making.
Little drawer: small bits of spokes and brass & nickel-silver lathes stock. At the top left & center are the adjustment thingies.
Big drawer: Across the front are the quartz watch innards that are going to yield up tiny electromagnets plus some tiny electromagnets that don't have a home. The top right sectioncontains relays which ... yep, more electromagnets. At this rate, it may be a while before I actually have to use any of my really small wire to turn any.
Little drawer: More lathe stock - spokes on the left, brass in the middle and nickel-silver on the right.
Big drawer: For the most part DC and stepper motors and R/C servoes of varying sizes. The top right section has the plastic rollers out of cigarette rolling machines and next to them are a couple of bellows from cuckoo clocks.
Little drawer: The left hand three tubes have more brass (and a little nickel silver) lathe stock, the wooden one is one of the ones holding broaches but wouldn't fit anywhere else, the glass one's empty but has the same problem and the right one has a bunch of mainsprings which are useful for a great number of things.
There are four quarters in this picture.
The smooth silvery round things in the lower right side of the picture aren't gears but rather balance wheels. They came from the factory in perfect balance so all a watch repairer had to do was add the hairspring and reinstall the balance. This feature makes using them as kind of flywheels a possibility.
The large ones next to the wooden tray are clock gears which will go into Noelle-machines with the large pocket watch gears. The smaller ones, most of which still need to be separated out, are for "bragging machines", the ones which push my ability to work small.
On the far right are hairsprings, the dark ones for watches and the brass ones for clocks. This shot also shows the balance wheels a bit better so the drilling used to balance them shows up better.
I think this qualifies as a really compact shop.
Best regards,
Kludge
Okay, first - the overall shop at a rather odd angle:
That lower section's about 19" wide and 2' tall, and is about 3" off the ground to allow for the rollers. The upper one is 16" wide and 10" tall. I work standing, sitting in a hyper-elevated student chair and, when I get it back, a stool.
Where the little boxes are now to the right of the upper section will be a second bench vise, with slightly wider jaws.
And now for some of the tools:
These two are on the top & bottom of the right set of drawers. None of the punches are in this shot nor are all of the bench steel (and a couple brass) staking anvils. The holding things are a bit out of the ordinary so I figured I'd include them as well.
The upper tool drawer. These reside on the middle deck of the lower section of the bench. On the left are a portion of the pin vises, in the middle are some of the tweezers, and on the right a bunch of different small staking punches. The chrome-like container has some very, very small ones which sometimes require the services of both lenses on my clip-on loupe.
For scaling, each section is a quarter plus one on edge wide.
On the left are lubrication tools with pithwood and pegwood stock. NExt to them are my slips and then the wooden polishing sticks. To the right of them are broaches (some of which we'll see in a bit), files and burnishers.
Side note: Pithwood is usually cut into small pieces and used for things like drying and cleaning the oilers next to them. Just stick the pin in and it's done. Peg wood has a variety of uses like having a sliver cut out for cleaning out holes in gears or pivots.
These are the broaches which are kind of like really small reamers. I scattered a few quarters around as the common unit of measurement for them.
Bottom section: smaller grippy things and solder, both soft and silver. In between is the shellac that gets melted to hold things in place.
Middle section: two more staking anvils and the taps & die plates (screw plates) that range from .6 to 2.0mm ... and another quarter. On top are an incomplete set of drills. I still have coming a set that ranges from .3 to 2mm in .05mm steps.
This is my K&D staking set, although I can't find this frame in any of their old catalogs. There are 90-something stakes and 20-something stumps which pretty much allows me to customize it to my needs. This helps a lot when I need to do something dead bang on while the handheld ones find use in places where I can have a little freedom in dead-bang-onishness.
So much for the tools. Let's look at bits and pieces for a moment.
Big drawer: Gears, gears and more gears. To the top left are magnets and some really thin brass washers used in watch & clock making.
Little drawer: small bits of spokes and brass & nickel-silver lathes stock. At the top left & center are the adjustment thingies.
Big drawer: Across the front are the quartz watch innards that are going to yield up tiny electromagnets plus some tiny electromagnets that don't have a home. The top right sectioncontains relays which ... yep, more electromagnets. At this rate, it may be a while before I actually have to use any of my really small wire to turn any.
Little drawer: More lathe stock - spokes on the left, brass in the middle and nickel-silver on the right.
Big drawer: For the most part DC and stepper motors and R/C servoes of varying sizes. The top right section has the plastic rollers out of cigarette rolling machines and next to them are a couple of bellows from cuckoo clocks.
Little drawer: The left hand three tubes have more brass (and a little nickel silver) lathe stock, the wooden one is one of the ones holding broaches but wouldn't fit anywhere else, the glass one's empty but has the same problem and the right one has a bunch of mainsprings which are useful for a great number of things.
There are four quarters in this picture.
The smooth silvery round things in the lower right side of the picture aren't gears but rather balance wheels. They came from the factory in perfect balance so all a watch repairer had to do was add the hairspring and reinstall the balance. This feature makes using them as kind of flywheels a possibility.
The large ones next to the wooden tray are clock gears which will go into Noelle-machines with the large pocket watch gears. The smaller ones, most of which still need to be separated out, are for "bragging machines", the ones which push my ability to work small.
On the far right are hairsprings, the dark ones for watches and the brass ones for clocks. This shot also shows the balance wheels a bit better so the drilling used to balance them shows up better.
I think this qualifies as a really compact shop.
Best regards,
Kludge
