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Bought an upright tool off eBay and there was one problem, no bottom alignment rod. So, found a piece of stock Brass and carved it up on my Lathe. This is the result.01a31f15ea344805d6529571a724d4d7.jpg

The nails on one of the hinges were out and the hinge was rusted in place. So I used some small pointy watchmakers screws and replaced the nails.88cb06b53d3abc61d12eab7a885add0e.jpg I then oiled the hinges and worked them in nicely.

Next, the box fabric was unglued on the Tom so I lifted up the fabric and spread a light layer of Elmer’s glue between the wood and the black cloth: and put 4 magic books on top for an hour.a520fb10c64adf478d1d892340146d96.jpg

Next step was to blacken the box as there were chips of cloth missing and it just looked tattered. So I used Kiwi Color shoe shine and it worked like a charm.1fe919c2ec0927a730559b5846fb808d.jpg

Now I needed to shine up the cloth on the inside of the box the same was...and used a paintbrush for the corners bu dipping it in the show shine. Then I needed to clean up the red velvet on the inside so I used a lint role: as well as tearing off a piece for the tight spots. I also needed to clean up some aging mold sobthe line roll with some help with a fine screwdriver worker great. I then shoe polished where the mold was.c38736a72e48b160791aaa90ea98f8ac.jpg

The last step was to polish the Uprighting Tool using Peek and a lot of elbow grease.b5da5d42c82f8e2d5374fed3c438fa80.jpg

Here is the before and aftere574494366ceb131d2096b9fd1056a4b.jpg75d165b9ef71391d20df7757f13fc9ed.jpgAnd the Final.

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Nice, I have this on my want list as I want to learn to repair fusee watches (and eventually verge fusee) and its not uncommon for those old watches to of been bushed at some point, and not always correctly, which is where the depthing and uprighting tools come in to use.

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Nice, I have this on my want list as I want to learn to repair fusee watches (and eventually verge fusee) and its not uncommon for those old watches to of been bushed at some point, and not always correctly, which is where the depthing and uprighting tools come in to use.

I just needed to have this tool, in case I need to make a plate....or other alignment work. But if I never, it is a cool tool from the past.


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This is a great tool for the watchmaker when he wants to replicate a part, or even the watch repair man sometimes needs to make a new bridge. The tool is used to transfer the hole positions from the part you want to replicate. Usually, it is fastened into a wise in the square part you can see in the picture, but here I just show you what it does.

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On the tool you got two snuggly fitted rods which is pointy in the both ends; these has to be exactly centered with each other.

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I mostly use a nickelsilver alloy when doing the parts since you get a much nicer finish to the parts.
I glue the part which holes I want to replicate in the plate of nicklesilver. One have to super glue the part into place on the plate. It will come of in a bath of acetone later on.

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Next I adjust the center jewel hole in the main plate with the upper rod (so you can see better).

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With the rod below I gently push and twist so it makes a mark in the plate. I just do one for this example. In real life you just continue to mark out the rest of the holes you want to drill.

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Here is the result from this operation.

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So now I take the drills out, I measure the hole diameter in the mainplate and choose one slightly smaller, don’t take the same size incase the hole you drill comes slightly out of center. You might need some room to adjust it later.

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In this case I use an olden goldie drill press too. On this drill press you also got a rod which is pointy on one side and has a small indent on the other. With the three fasteners you center the bit into position by using the pointy part of the rod in the drill press.

Here you can see the part centered to the indent with the pointy rod.

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When the part is in place you put the drill into the drill holder part, this is pointy on the upper side so now you turn the rod around in the drill press.

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As you see the drill is centered in the dent you made with the upright tool.
So now you just drill away with the bow (which I can’t find right now)
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Hope you got an idea of what to do with the tool, feel a bit sorry we hi-jacked JD's post a bit but it is such an interresting subject 😉

 

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